鼠
चूहा
A 1 rewards the first move made alone, which is where you are most capable and least comfortable being seen. Start it quietly and let people find out afterwards. The Rat's advantage is noticing the opening early, and it expires the moment somebody else notices it too.
牛
बैल
Beginning is the one thing your patience works against. A 1 does not wait for conditions and neither should you. Start something small enough that beginning it costs nothing, and let your persistence do what it always does once the thing is moving.
虎
बाघ
Your instinct and this number agree completely: go first, without permission. The only caution is that a 1 opens a sequence rather than settling anything, so what you start today will still need you in March, when the excitement has entirely gone.
兔
खरगोश
A 1 asks you to move before the ground is safe, which is not how you prefer to work. Take one step that can be walked back if it goes badly. Reversibility is what makes a beginning possible for you at all.
龍
ड्रैगन
Beginnings suit you and this one comes without an audience. Start the thing you have not announced. The Dragon's difficulty with a 1 is confusing the declaration with the act, and a 1 counts only the second of those.
蛇
सांप
You will know exactly where to begin and will want another week of watching first. A 1 gives you the read you needed some time ago. Move on it now, quietly, before the situation changes shape and you have to start the analysis again.
馬
घोड़ा
Starting is easy and choosing is not. A 1 opens one road rather than several, so pick the one you would still want in six months and refuse the rest today, plainly, before your enthusiasm commits you to all of them.
羊
बकरी
A 1 asks you to begin without company, which is the arrangement you like least. Do it anyway. Something started alone now becomes the thing others join later, and joining is much easier for people than founding.
猴
बंदर
Cleverness gets you the opening and only persistence keeps it. A 1 hands the Monkey an obvious advantage and an obvious trap: you will have begun four things by evening and finished none. Choose one before lunch.
雞
मुर्गा
You want the plan complete and the schedule written before anything starts. A 1 does not work that way. Begin at seventy percent, correct as you go, and accept that the tidy version was never going to survive first contact.
狗
कुत्ता
You will start when somebody needs you to, and a 1 asks you to start for yourself. Notice the difference today. Something you want, rather than something you owe, and begun without waiting for anyone to ask.
豬
सुअर
Begin it before you feel ready, because you will not feel ready. A 1 rewards the definite first step over the long preparation, and the Pig's warmth makes it easy to keep preparing in good company indefinitely.