Age 15, 24: the Yǐ Mǎo Decade

During her teenage years through early twenties, Raven moved through what we call the Ailing life-stage, a time when her Earth Day Master was naturally softer and more receptive, like soil after rain. The Wood element of this decade, particularly through Yǐ Mǎo, the Flexible Wood of the Rabbit, brought Seven Killings energy, a force that pressed on her in ways that felt demanding or even destabilizing; this is the Ten-God that represents external pressure, authority figures, or situations that test your mettle. Yet because this Wood was favorable to her overall chart, these challenges arrived wrapped in a kind of hidden support; the pressure came with learning, not just pain. She likely felt caught between her own need for gentleness and external demands that wouldn't let her rest, but that very tension shaped her during formative years. Looking back, this decade probably gave her resilience she didn't know she was building, teaching her that she could bend under pressure without breaking. The difficulty of those years was real, but it was also the soil where her strength took root.