Type No. 329 of 576
the Sheltering Tide × the Cloud over the Mountain
Belonging × Vitality × the Open Loom
Cancer
Cancer is the sign of the sheltering tide. This thread tends to protect a small circle fiercely — home, family, and old friends are read as the center, not the edge.
Dragon
The Dragon is the cloud over the mountain — the only animal of the twelve that flies. This thread tends to think at weather scale: big patterns, big energy, little patience for small rooms.
It approaches life by momentum: gather a storm of support, then move all at once.
Type O
Type O is read, in the Japanese custom, as the open loom — the frame the other threads hang on. This reading tends to gather people, set a generous pace, and aim at the outcome rather than the procedure.
In practice, the O thread leads best in the open: clear goal, public credit, and details happily delegated to careful hands.
The shadow in this thread is the skipped stitch: big-picture confidence can wave past a small fact that later holds the whole pattern.
Strengths and tender spots
Strength: a memory for what people need before they say it
Gift: scale — the ability to make a personal project feel like a shared cause
Tender spot: carrying other people's weather as if it were your own
Read with tonight's moon
A type is only half the reading; the other half is the moon it is read under. The free diagnostic on the top page reads your type together with tonight's moon phase.