Type No. 332 of 576
the Sheltering Tide × the Flock on the Green Hill
Belonging × Kindness × 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.
Goat
The Goat is the flock on the green hill (in some traditions rendered as the Sheep). This thread tends to put the group's comfort first and to make beauty out of ordinary days.
It approaches life by harmony: feed everyone, mend the fence, keep the hill pleasant.
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: warmth — people heal faster around a Goat, including the Goat, when it remembers itself
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.