The Year Ahead
Hai and Wei form half of a three-part Wood frame, and the missing part is Mao, which means the year's company is nearby and waiting on your word. A Wood Pig grows warmth the way a garden grows herbs, a little every day: the note to a friend, the second cup poured without being asked and the recipe made for someone else's birthday. Yi feeding Ding says your warmth is the year's kindling, so tend the home fire and let it light for others.
The first half suits the visits and the small occasions. Midsummer is warm and social, so keep the table generous but the calendar kind. From the ninth month the house quiets.
A Pig prospers by choosing the trough, so choose the guests.
Career
At 92 the roles left are the hospitable ones: the keeper of the family's table, the person who remembers birthdays and the elder whose kitchen is a meeting place. Keep the roles you enjoy and let others carry the organising, because a good host does not need to also be the caterer. Write the family recipes and their stories down properly, with real measures and the name of whoever taught them, and let a grandchild cook one with you.
Choose one regular occasion, monthly or seasonal, and let it be modest and dependable rather than grand. Do not let the role of host quietly become the role of servant. The Pig's warmth is the gift; the calendar is the discipline.
Money
A hospitable year spends on the table and the gifts, so give both a ceiling before the occasions arrive. Keep the giving in its own line from the money that pays for care, food and the household, and keep the cushion untouched. Finish the folder with the pensions, accounts, insurance and property papers indexed, and tell one trusted person where it lives.
Do not lend or guarantee, and let every larger request wait a day. The Pig's instinct is to feed everyone, and the pantry still needs a floor. Lunar months one and two run heavy, the fifth and sixth stay quiet, and the eighth and ninth bring help and supplies back.
Love
The table is the year's love language, and this year it will be set often. Keep the occasions regular and small, and let the guests bring half of the meal, because a shared table is warmer than a served one. Say what you want for the years ahead while everyone is eating, and ask for the visits you actually enjoy rather than accepting every one.
With a partner or a companion, the shared kitchen and the shared programme are the treasure; keep them exact. With grandchildren, teach one recipe by making it together and let them take home the leftovers. Warmth is measured in second helpings.
Health
In the traditional picture Yi Wood relates to the liver, the eyes and the tendons, and Hai Water to the kidneys and the body's fluids. A Pig's year is a table year, so the practical advice is warm cooked food, modest portions, water through the day and an early finish to the evening meal. Gentle daily walking keeps the appetite honest.
Keep the reading and the cooking in short sessions, and rest the eyes between. Routine checks belong in spring and autumn as your clinician advises, and medication is never changed on your own. A warm kitchen and a measured plate are this year's comfort.
Lucky Elements
Colors: fresh green for your own Wood, deep blue for water and warm earth yellow. Green feeds the growing wood, blue keeps it from burning dry, and yellow receives the fire's warmth. Skip head-to-toe red.
Direction: east for wood, north for water and southwest for earth. A kitchen with morning light, a bench by the window and a pot of herbs suit a hospitable year. Numbers: 3 and 8 for wood, 1 and 6 for water, 5 and 10 for earth.
Key lunar months: the 1st and 3rd for gatherings and recipes; the 5th and 6th for rest and light spending; the 9th and 10th for family, collecting and settling.
Do & Avoid
Do: write the recipes with real measures and their stories; keep one regular, modest occasion; set the giving ceiling before the invitations; keep warm meals, water and the evening walk. Avoid: letting the host role become the servant role; lending money or guaranteeing a loan; feeding everyone at the pantry's expense; and measuring the year by how full the house was.
A Pig prospers by choosing the trough. Keep the table warm, the list short and the larder honest.
Your Full Report
This page reads your birth year alone: a Yi-Hai Wood Pig should host modestly, write the recipes down and keep generosity with edges this year. The full report uses your month, day and hour pillars, plus your birthplace and the historical timezone of your birth date, to correct the solar terms, including the Li Chun boundary, and calculate your personal five-element balance. It maps 2027 month by month, showing the social months, the expensive months and the best windows for rest and family, with your strongest directions and balancing colours.
Two Pigs born in the same year can set different tables once the full chart is cast. The free page shows the shape, and the full report shows you.
