Closed row
The leading theme and the headline, so you can scan a decade without opening every year.
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Yearly luck
Each calendar year's pillar: its theme, its folk labels, and how it meets your chart.
Yearly luck, traditionally called Saewun, reads each calendar year's pillar against your fixed birth chart. We score it against your day pillar, above all its top character, your day element. We compare the year's stem and branch with your helpful and caution elements. Then we name the life theme that leads, and show how the year meets your chart.
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How it differs from decade luck
Decade luck is the longer background: one pillar for about ten years. Yearly luck is the layer for each year: a new pillar every calendar year. Both are scored against the same helpful and caution lists. Yearly luck also scores themes across life areas, such as identity, money, pressure, and rest.
What each year row shows
Theme score
How clearly one life theme led that year. Higher means a clearer reading, not a better or worse year. Open the year to see where the points came from.
Folk labels
Badges that some years carry, such as the three-year cycle, birth-animal year, movement & travel, or visibility & attraction. These come from the folk calendar and are separate from the theme score. See the three-year cycle, movement, and visibility guides.
How we calculate the theme
- Work out the calendar year's pillar: its stem and branch.
- Add points to life themes. They come from the year's stem and branch, its helpful and caution elements, the decade behind it, and how its branch meets your chart.
- The theme with the most points becomes that year's headline.
- Pillar ease is a separate check on the stem and branch elements, apart from which theme wins. It has four answers: supportive, demanding, steady, or push and pull. Push and pull is a year whose stem and branch pull opposite ways, about one year in five.
These are leanings to reflect on, not predictions of specific events.