Phil Rudd Saju Reading

01

A closer look at 乙亥

Yin Wood takes its image from a vine: finding an opening and bending around an obstacle are both ways of growing.

The second character in 乙亥, 亥, sits directly beneath 乙. Read that pairing before comparing the day with 甲午, the year pillar shared by many people born in the same period.

02

The working rhythm of 己巳

Phil Rudd has been a member of AC/DC.

In the month branch, Hurting Officer describes testing an established form by changing one of its rules. For Phil Rudd, try reading that theme through the space between a repeated motif and its variation. It is a detail the audience can notice directly, without having to guess what the artist intended.

03

Cooperation through Direct Resource

The branch beneath the Day Master gives a second relationship, Direct Resource. Its theme is drawing on a tradition, teacher or established technique. Compare it with the month’s Hurting Officer: do the two positions call for a similar response, or do they put the emphasis somewhere else?

04

Counting the visible elements

Across 甲午, 己巳 and 乙亥, Wood and Fire share the highest visible count (2 out of six for each leading element). These are counts of characters. The season represented by 巳 also matters when judging how those elements function.