Type No. 44 of 576
the Sheltering Tide × the Flock on the Green Hill
Belonging × Kindness × the Weaver of Care
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 A
Type A is read, in the Japanese custom, as the weaver of care — the thread that checks the pattern twice. This reading tends to plan, to prepare, and to keep promises in small print as faithfully as in large.
In practice, the A thread works best with a visible plan and a standard to meet; praise lands deepest when it names the care that was taken.
The shadow in this thread is worry spent before the event: preparation can quietly become rehearsal of everything that might go wrong.
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.