Tiger

Moves first, asks permission never — the front of every room.

Tiger is the branch that opens the working day and, in the old calendar, opens the year itself — first light, first month, first move. In a chart it reads as initiative: you go before the room has finished discussing whether to go, and you rarely ask permission first. People experience this as courage, sometimes read as recklessness when it's really just an unwillingness to wait. It shows up loudest wherever it sits in your four pillars — a year Tiger carries it into your public reputation, a day Tiger makes it your own temperament.

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