The Year Ahead
Mao and Wei form half of a three-part Wood frame, and the missing part is Hai, so the year's gatherings wait on the first word. For an Earth Rabbit the year is a gentle handover: the family learns the house from you, the cupboard's logic, the date's meaning and the recipe's order. Ding Fire feeding Ji Earth means the care you show comes back softened, and it also means help offered to you can land without fuss.
The first half is for the teaching visits and the small occasions. Midsummer runs warm, so keep the plans short and the garden in the cool hours. From the ninth month the year quiets.
Teach the house its own habits, and it will keep them.
Career
At 88 the roles left are the household's gentle ones: the keeper of the traditions, the person who knows where everything lives and the elder whose presence makes an occasion complete. Keep the two that give you pleasure and let the organising go to younger hands. Then do the quiet succession properly: choose the customs worth keeping and write them down with the why; walk a grandchild through the house's logic, the spare keys, the special pans and the photographs' names; and cook one signature dish with an audience.
The Rabbit's grace is in the doing, not the instructing. A house that knows its own habits will keep them long after the calendar changes hands.
Money
Sociable years spend in small pleasant sums, so give the spending a shape. Set the year's gift and hospitality figure apart 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 its location.
Do not lend or guarantee, and let every larger request wait a day. The Rabbit's instinct is to smooth things with generosity, and edges keep the smoothing affordable. Lunar months two and three run expensive, the eighth and ninth suit collecting and renewing, and the tenth settles the account.
Love
At 88 love is mostly steady attention, and the family will feel it in the small things: the seat kept, the dish made and the asked question. Keep the visits regular and the hours short, and say the warm thing plainly once in a while, because quiet devotion can be mistaken for habit. With a partner or a companion, keep the exact rituals and add one small pleasure to the week.
With grandchildren, teach one thing and let them own it, a recipe, a plant or a card game, and their visits will lengthen on their own. Grace shared with the next generation is this year's whole art.
Health
In the traditional picture Ji Earth relates to the stomach and the spleen, and Mao Wood to the liver, the eyes and the limbs. A Fire-feeds-Earth year responds to rhythm: warm cooked meals at regular hours, water through the day and a fixed bedtime. Keep the garden and the kitchen in short sessions with rest between them.
Move gently every day, and keep the ankles and knees easy. Routine checks belong in spring and autumn as your clinician advises, and medication is never changed on your own. A gentle round of days is this year's medicine.
Lucky Elements
Colors: warm earth yellow and cream, fresh green for wood and deep blue for water. Yellow steadies the earth the year feeds, green keeps the wood growing and blue cools the warmth. Skip an all-red outfit.
Direction: south-west for Earth, east for Wood and north for Water. A chair near the garden, herbs on the sill and morning light suit a teaching year. Numbers: 5 and 10 for earth, 3 and 8 for wood and 1 and 6 for water.
Key lunar months: the 1st and 3rd for recipes and family visits; the 5th and 6th for rest and light spending; the 9th and 10th for family, collecting and settling.
Do & Avoid
Do: choose the customs worth keeping and write them with the why; walk a grandchild through the house's logic; keep one signature dish made together; keep warm meals, water and the gentle round. Avoid: teaching by correcting; lending money or guaranteeing a loan; letting the teaching days crowd the rest days; and keeping the house's habits only in your head.
The Rabbit's year is a quiet succession. Show the house its own habits, and they will outlast the calendar.
Your Full Report
This page reads your birth year alone: a Ji-Mao Earth Rabbit should teach the house its habits and keep the days gentle 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 months for recipes and family visits, the expensive months and the best windows for rest, with your strongest directions and balancing colours.
Two Rabbits born in the same year can teach different houses once the full chart is cast. The free page shows the shape, and the full report shows you.
