Jia Wood born in the month of the Rabbit is militant. This is a tree in March, breaking obstacles and growing by force of will.

When you think of Rabbit, you think of a cuddly and soft creature. Or, you think of a prey animal who twitches and hides at the slightest noise. Let's get that out of your mind. Jia Wood born in the month of the Rabbit is not soft or cuddly. They have the sharp instincts of rabbits but they're not pets.

For Jia Wood, Rabbit is Sword Star. Sword Star is, for all extents and purposes, a doubled edged blade. You can hold your own Sword Star like a strong fighter. Your Sword Star can also cut you and you have to be strong enough to endure the pain. This issue of balancing Seven Killings with Sword Star is very important for any Jia Wood day master who was born in the month of the Rabbit.

Just like Jia Wood during Tiger month, Jia Wood in Rabbit month needs sunlight and a little wet Earth. They're interested in culture and making an impact through it. However, different from Jia Wood with Prosperity Star, Jia Wood with Sword Star is not looking to be known or famous through their art. They're motivated by justice. They're holding a knife.

Jia Wood born in the month of the Rabbit is just as creative as Jia Wood born in any month of the spring but it has a vulnerability and a bite. They have a killer instinct.

Your Sword Star can also cut you. Without protection, Sword Star is just violence. You see violence around you or it is done to you. The desire for justice, for people with Sword Star, comes from a place of sorrow. They have suffered and they don't want to anymore. To balance out Sword Star, Jia Wood born during Rabbit month needs something that Jia Wood born in the other months of spring don't need—Seven Killings.

If Sword Star is balanced with Seven Killings in your chart, then you are determined and focused. You might move like a skilled fighter, like a ninja or a sword fighter. You have the instincts of a killer but you also have self control. You see violence around you (Sword Star) but you have power (Seven Killings).

The basic wisdom is that the strength of your Sword Star must be balanced with Seven Killings of equal strength. Geng Metal is Jia Wood's Seven Killings. However, if you are born during the spring, then any metal that appears in your chart will be weak. Metal is weak in the spring. That means that it's very difficult for Jia Wood born in the month of the Rabbit to have metal that is strong enough to balance their Sword Star.

For Seven Killings to successfully balance a strong Sword Star, Jia Wood born in the month of Rabbit has to have Monkey in their natal chart somewhere as well as Geng Metal in the stems. They also have to go through Geng Metal luck pillars in their timing. All three conditions have to be met.

I was only able to find one example of a Jia Wood day master born in the month of the Rabbit who actually does have Seven Killings balanced with Sword Star. That person is actually Dick Fosbury, the Olympic athlete who invented the Fosbury flop. His day pillar is Wood Monkey and he was born in the month of the Rabbit.

庚甲癸丁
午申卯亥

So, incredible discipline and physical strength. Determined focus and complete dedication. No, Fosbury wasn't a soldier. He was an athlete. His chart also has Ding Fire so he has some danger of burning out or injury since he uses his own body to express himself like a tree using its own branches to create warmth. However, he has abundant water in his chart which protects him. He might get roughed up but he doesn't die young. Sword Star means that Fosbury had pain but Seven Killings means that he had power. He was injured and even broke his spine but he was an athlete. He wasn't maimed in a fight and had the resources to heal.

Having Seven Killings that is strong enough to counter Jia Wood's month pillar Sword Star is extremely rare. That makes sense. Not everyone is an Olympic athlete. It's just a super rare formation for a chart.

The Jia Wood born in the month of the Rabbit who I'm really interested in looking at, of course, Maya Angelou.

辛甲乙戊
未戌卯辰

The first thing to notice about Maya Angelou's chart is that her Sword Star is extremely strong. The second thing to notice is that she has no Seven Killings at all.

Again, Seven Killings for Jia Wood with Sword Star is power and protection. Maya Angelou faced violence but she didn't have protection. She was raped by her mom's boyfriend as a child and, when she told her family, her uncle murdered the man and she became mute for five years as a result. This is Sword Star in the month pillar, which signifies the family or upbringing. She saw people who wanted justice seek it out with the sword.

Without Seven Killings, Maya Angelou's work is animated by her very real sorrow. She fought in the Black Power movement and saw her friends get killed. For all intents and purposes, Angelou was a soldier in the struggle for Black power and justice against gender based violence. Like Fosbury, she learned to use her body too—in protest and in dance. Unlike Fosbury, the pain cut her on a psychic level.

Maya Angelou also has another chart pattern, one that doesn't protect her against Sword Star but one that gives her something else that is possible for Jia Wood born in the month of the Rabbit: Curved and Straight Benevolence and Longevity.

She has Dragon and Goat. Either Dragon and Goat can combine with Rabbit (if Tiger or Pig arrive in her timing) to create either a Seasonal Wood Combination or a Triple Wood Combination. Moreover, Yi Wood is in her month stem. A Wood day master who is born in the spring who has even just one Wood Combination and also Wood in the stems of the natal chart has a pattern called "曲直仁寿" or Curved and Straight Benevolence and Longevity.

This chart pattern is very rare, more rare even than balancing Sword Star with Seven Killings. You have to fulfill all four of the conditions required for this pattern to have it.

If you have Curved and Straight chart pattern, then you are a well respected intellectual who understands humanity and has longevity. Curved and Straight chart pattern people are the kind of intellectuals who start literary traditions, the kind of trees who seed entire forests. They teach the young and they're not just famous—they're canonical. This chart pattern also grants longevity both in body and in impact.

Maya Angelou has unbalanced Sword Star but Sword Star doesn't kill her. Her chart pattern gave her longevity and she lived well into her eighties. But Sword Star remained with her throughout her life. She wrote ten books as she suffered with illness, in incredible pain. Why wouldn't she? She had been starting a literary tradition while holding sorrow her whole life.

Let's take a look at one last Jia Wood born in the month of the Rabbit: Alexander the III.

壬甲己乙
申午卯巳

He had Monkey in the hour pillar. However, he doesn't have Geng Metal in the stems of his natal chart. Seven Killings in the branches of the natal chart is strong enough to protect Alexander the III himself from his Sword Star. He definitely had power because he was born as the son of an emperor. However, he needs Geng Metal in the stems to win wars.

He doesn't have it. He was an autocratic Tzar who supressed his own subjects to promote the idea of an unified Russian culture but he didn't fight wars. He made peace with Britian and Germany and entered into a treaty with France (one that would later play a role in starting World War I). He was an unruly personality who had enough physical strength to tie a metal fork into a knot (Sword Star with Seven Killings) but it was like he knew he couldn't win. Since he had some balance of Seven Killings with Sword Star, he could probably assess the Russian military of the time and saw that it was too weak (later revealed to be true under his son during World War I).

We won't spend too much time with Alexander the III's chart because I don't think a literal emperor is very relatable but I wanted to use it to illustrate the rule of using Seven Killings to balance Sword Star for Jia Wood born in Rabbit month. Having even weak Seven Killings will protect you against Sword Star but, if it's not strong enough to be a real counter, then you're better off not getting into fights. Only someone with Dick Fosbury's chart can truly use Sword Star-Seven Killings pattern. He can backflip over a pole. If you fight with him, you will lose. Fosbury's Seven Killings is balanced with Sword Star so he doesn't use his strength to become cruel. He used it for athleticism.

Sword Star can expose you to ruthlessness. However, Seven Killings can make you yourself ruthless. You need to balance the two to successfully use Seven Killings-Sword Star pattern. If you don't have Seven Killings and you're Jia Wood born in Rabbit month, you can still form other chart patterns but you faced some degree of sorrow in your early life. You were subjected to ruthless behavior.

Jia Wood born in the month of the Rabbit is a very different personality than Jia Wood born in the month of the Tiger. These people are fighters. They can still be artists because all Wood in the spring wants to become a cultural icon but Jia Wood in Rabbit month faces the issues of Sword Star. That means that they need to learn how to use their strength.