Type No. 473 of 576
the Sheltering Tide × the Cloud over the Mountain
Belonging × Vitality × the Double Pattern
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 AB
Type AB is read, in the Japanese custom, as the double pattern — two threads woven as one cloth. This reading tends to hold two views at once: the rational account and the intuitive one, the public self and the private.
In practice, the AB thread works best where both analysis and originality are valued, and where it can withdraw to re-weave in quiet.
The shadow in this thread is distance: the double view can become a window that others cannot quite knock on.
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.