The Secret Code of Your Soul (28 Lunar Mansions). Part 5 - The Fox

Do you know your Chinese zodiac sign? Perhaps you think of yourself as a friendly Dog or a powerful Dragon according to your birth year. However, your annual sign is just an outer mask, a social role, and a superficial engine by which you present yourself to the world. Parnell

Your true, pure identity lies much deeper. The ancient Ham Yu teaching reads personality from the so-called Astrotype, where the very deepest, pivotal first line from the heavens is your Lunar Mansion. This reveals your hidden talent and who you truly are when you are completely alone. Today, the lunar ruler whom the world constantly misunderstands sheds its mask – the mysterious Fox.

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PART 5: LUNAR RULER – THE FOX (Heart)

A soulful and charming being, whom the world mistakenly condemns for cunning.

Element and Polarity: Yin Wood (-)

General characteristics and strengths: If your hidden soul essence is the Fox, you are at your core a deeply soulful, generous, and open person who loves nature, animals, and freedom above all else. Your main character pillars are playfulness and unmistakable slyness. You are an absolute master of adaptation – you treat everyone pleasantly, kindly, and courteously, and you can perfectly adjust to people and situations. You care about the impression you make on your surroundings. A beautiful blend of external simplicity and immense internal complexity resides within you. Once you become enthusiastic about an idea, you can think it through to the smallest and most precise details. This is precisely why a huge number of excellent teachers, scientists, writers, and psychologists are found among Foxes.

Weaknesses and shadows: The greatest curse of the Fox is that people generally fatally misunderstand it. Its natural cleverness is perceived by others as cunning. People mistake its sincere cordiality for importunity and its generosity for intrusiveness. Because of these constant misunderstandings, the Fox builds immense wariness and distrust from childhood. It learns to play by its own rules and strictly follow its own path. It ultimately reveals its true face only to its closest ones, and even then, only according to how it assesses the situation. If a feeling of inferiority develops within it (perhaps even due to its surroundings), it becomes a master of illusion – it can perfectly hide its complex under a bulletproof mask of exaggerated cheerfulness and boastfulness.

Love and intimacy: In relationships, the Fox has it far from easy, especially with the opposite sex. It constantly has to exert tremendous effort to ensure its partner understands it correctly and doesn't look for ulterior motives behind its actions. It takes a very long time for it to truly trust and open up to someone. However, the Fox is also a very strong player – if it finds itself in a conflict, it has no problem mentally and argumentatively overpowering its partner. It can maintain perspective, and although it appears soft externally, it is incredibly firm internally. The only one who can ignore it in relationship dynamics and "sweep the floor" with its slyness is the Lunar Monkey, who simply has all its tactics figured out.

Gender specifics (Polarity of men and women): Since the Fox is a Yin Wood (-) energy, it grants both genders immense flexibility – they can bend in the wind like a twig, but they will never break.

• Men (Foxes): Sociable and charming strategists. They appear incredibly polite and likeable, easily and quickly winning people over. Internally, however, they are very cautious analysts. They constantly weigh whom they can trust. They adopt a pleasant approach as a perfect shield, through which they let only the chosen few.
• Women (Foxes): Fascinating, intelligent, and very mysterious beings. Others, especially other women, often secretly envy their charm and tend to slander them for calculativeness or intrigue. Yet, a Fox woman is merely trying to protect her own inner world. She brilliantly masks her wariness and potential vulnerability with sly humor and a perfect ability to navigate every situation with a smile.

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Do you want to find out if you are a Fox, or perhaps a Condor, or even a Deer? Yes, these are also Chinese signs, but these are signs of the soul, your essence, get your own analysis here:

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Don't understand why the Fox is a Chinese sign? Read more in our series on the secret ancient Ham Yu teaching here:

The Teachings of Ham Yu (Part 1). Feng Ren Shui: Humanity as the Center of Cosmic Balance