Xu Minghao, born 7 November 1997 in Anshan. Here is what his chart says about the diligent eccentric artist.
The8's chart is Water on cold winter earth, with more of the same earth in the year and Metal in the month feeding the Water. The reading sums it up in three words, diligent eccentric artist, and the three come from three different places in the chart.
Diligent is the earth. The branches underneath, the part of a chart that describes what a person actually does rather than what they think, are a row of solid ground. That is the follow-through: he finishes what he starts and does not look around to check who is watching. Eccentric is the same earth read the other way. He does what he has decided to do and does not ask anyone's permission, and the reading notes he is unusually unbothered by other people's opinions of it.
Artist is the Water at the centre. It is the element of originality and ideas, and here it is fed by Metal from the month, so it does not run dry. Painting, dance, design, the visual side of the group: the reading sees all of it coming from the same source, and it adds, half amused, that every SEVENTEEN chart it has looked at has this diligence in it, which may be why the group works.
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READ MY SAJUThe reading is candid that he could leave the industry earlier than most, and that the field he moves into is one he would need real time to prepare for. It keeps the specific field behind a paywall, so this page does not name it, but given the paintings and the design work the guess is not hard.
The verdict is positive. Of the members whose charts point to a life after the group, The8's is one of the more successful, in a field where a diligent eccentric artist is precisely the right person.
Jun is the member the reading compares him to, and the two are similar from a distance and opposite up close. Jun's chart runs warm and misty; The8's runs cold and clear. Both stand a little outside the group's centre, and both are fine there.
Woozi and Hoshi share his central element. Four of the thirteen have Water at the centre, and The8's is the coldest of the four, which is why his art tends toward line and shape where Woozi's tends toward sound.
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Korean astrology, called Saju (사주) and known in English as the Four Pillars of Destiny, reads a person from their exact birth moment rather than from a birth month alone. Four pillars, eight characters, five elements.
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READ MY SAJUThe8 was born on 7 November 1997. His chart reads 丁丑 for the year, 辛亥 for the month and 癸丑 for the day. His Day Master is 癸 Water, in its inward, yin form.
No. His Western zodiac sign is Scorpio, which comes from his birth month alone. Korean astrology builds a chart from his birth year, month and day, so it reads differently and in more detail.
A row of earth in the branches gives him stubborn follow-through and the habit of doing things his way without asking. Water at the centre, fed by Metal, gives him originality. The reading calls it a diligent eccentric artist's chart.
The reading thinks he may step out earlier than most, into a creative field he would spend real time preparing for, and it expects him to do well there. It does not read as a loss, more as the chart finally getting to do what it was built for.
A full Korean astrology chart has four pillars: year, month, day and hour. The hour pillar needs an exact birth time, which K-pop idols do not make public, so this reading works from the three pillars a birth date establishes.