Type No. 479 of 576
the Sheltering Tide × the Guard at the Gate
Belonging × Loyalty × 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.
Dog
The Dog is the guard at the gate. This thread tends to divide the world into 'mine to protect' and 'not mine' — and for the first group, there is no limit it will not cross.
It approaches life by vigilance: trust slowly, then completely.
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: devotion — promises made by a Dog are kept in weather that cancels other people's
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.