(50) Fate of Figure Skating Star Kim Yu-na
By Janet Shin
The 2009 world champion figure skater Kim Yu-na was born Sept. 5, 1989. Her saju comes out as follows:
The first impression we may get from her saju is the image of cold water and solid metal in her month and day branches. It is amazing to see the saju of a beautiful world figure skater with water and metal energy that stand for flowing water and flexibility.
Kim is not only the 2009 world champion, but the 2009 Four Continents champion and two-time Grand Prix finals champion. With her accomplishments, she has become one of the most highly-recognized athletes and media figures in the country.
She began skating at the age of 6 at her mother's encouragement, and became the first South Korean figure skater to get a medal at the junior grand prix events.
She holds the highest scores ever for ladies in the short program, free skating program and the combined total under the ISU judging system.
While preparing for her senior debut in the 2006-2007 season in Toronto, Brian Orser became her new full-time coach.
Other than the general feature of her saju, we also notice the strength of her knowledge stars ― metal energy, which could tell the fortune or impact of her mother and coaches. Knowledge star is the element that generates and nourishes the day master, which also means a lesson for someone to grow and mature. Her knowledge stars come from a metal trine by the assembly trine of sin yu (half trine) with gyeong stem's support. This tells us how big is the support of her mother and coach. Having a property of yin water energy, she has not only been born with pliability but also tenacity from metal energy.
The O fire money star tells us her early money fortune and gap wood is in good relationship with gye water, showing us her talent ― expression star. She might have had a distorted result last year (2008 ― year of mu ja) owing to a ja-o clash. O (money and result) in her year branch was restrained by ja (friend star ― competitor) of 2008.
However, nothing could restrict the flexibility and strength of her saju. This year (2009 ― year of gi chuk), which is a strong career fortune year for Kim, made her great success in her achievement and reputation. Career star (earth) made her knowledge star (metal) stronger.
Further to our lesson last week, there are two kinds of trines: one is azimuth and the other is assembly trine. It has strong compatibility among three branches.
We reviewed assembly trine last week, then the azimuth trines are the combination of terrestrial branches that belong to the same season or direction.
These trines can be made when the specific three zodiac signs are gathered. And whenever they meet, they change to other property (element) and lose their original elements. We also call it either directional or seasonal trines.
Owing to this, they have similar energy and easily combine with each other. For example, as with eul wood day master, if there is a sin yu sul metal trine (career star), this person would lose their current occupation to acquire a new job.
The writer is the president of the Heavenly Garden, a saju research center in Korea. She is the author of Learning Four Pillars. She offers saju courses to all who are interested. For more information, visit her Web site (https://blog.naver.com/janet―shin) or e-mail janetshin@hotmail.com.