Type No. 542 of 576
the Mountain Path × the Plow of the North Field
Ambition × Endurance × the Double Pattern
Capricorn
Capricorn is the sign of the mountain path. This thread tends to climb in switchbacks — patient, private, and very hard to discourage.
Ox
The Ox is the animal that plows the field in straight lines. This thread tends to trust effort over luck and to finish what it starts, season after season.
It approaches life by routine: the same honest work, done well, until the field itself changes.
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: long-range discipline that arrives where louder climbers quit
Gift: reliability — people build plans around an Ox without thinking twice
Tender spot: carrying the whole mountain alone instead of asking for a rope team
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