Sal (afflictions)
Browse meanings, origins, signs, and practical notes for common shamanic terms.
Sal (afflictions)Dohwasal (Peach Blossom Sal)The peach-blossom energy said to draw people to you effortlessly. Tradition holds that popularity and gossip arrive together with it.Sal (afflictions)Yeokmasal (Post Horse Sal)The energy of the relay-station horse that never stands still. Once read as a wanderer's fate, today it is read as the luck of expansion and travel.Sal (afflictions)Samjae (Three Calamities)A folk cycle in which misfortune is said to visit each zodiac sign for three years out of every nine — a period for caution rather than fear.Sal (afflictions)Gongmang (Void)The two 'unpaired' slots in the sixty-year cycle. Tradition reads them as zones of hollowness and scattered rewards — and also of spiritual depth.Sal (afflictions)Hongyeomsal (Red Allure Sal)A warmth that seeps out rather than shines out. Where dohwasal is a flower in full bloom, hongyeomsal is an ember glowing under ash.Sal (afflictions)Gwimunsal (Ghost Gate Sal)The sal of an 'open ghost gate' — read in folklore as spirit-sensitivity, and in modern terms as deep intuition and a finely tuned nervous system.Sal (afflictions)SibisinsalTwelve named forces assigned one to each earthly branch, keyed to your birth-year animal. They run in a fixed order from geopsal to hwagaesal, and a single chart holds several of them.Sal (afflictions)GeopsalThe slot that opens the twelve sal, read as losing what you hold to forces from outside — and, in the same tradition, as the capacity to rebuild from nothing.Sal (afflictions)JaesalThe slot of being held in place, often called suoksal, the 'confinement sal'. Read as trouble arriving from outside — and as the endurance that comes from not being able to leave.Sal (afflictions)CheonsalThe slot said to come down from the sky — what no personal effort can stop. Also read as the terrain of parents, superiors, and religious feeling.Sal (afflictions)JisalThe slot of movement across the ground. Where yeokmasal is being pushed into motion, jisal is deciding to move — relocation, transfers, striking out on your own.Sal (afflictions)WolsalThe slot where the seed fails to ripen, also called chochosal. Read as stalling and slow drying rather than collapse — and as a season for putting down roots.Sal (afflictions)MangsinsalThe slot where what you kept hidden comes out. Read as losing face — and, in the same tradition, as the candour of someone with nothing left to conceal.Sal (afflictions)JangseongsalKnown as the general's star and considered the strongest of the twelve sal. Read as authority and command — and as a will that does not bend when it should.Sal (afflictions)BanansalThe slot of climbing into the saddle. Read among the twelve sal as ease and advancement, and as the slot where people show up to help you.Sal (afflictions)YukhaesalThe 'six harms' slot. Read not as sudden ruin but as slowing and wearing down — a signal, in the old reading, to check your body and your pace.Sal (afflictions)HwagaesalNamed for the flowered canopy carried above the honoured. Read as talent in art, learning and religion — and as the solitude that comes with that depth.Sal (afflictions)BaekhosalThe white tiger's force. Older readings tied it to the sight of blood; what survives today reads the same force as rough, forceful drive.Sal (afflictions)WonjinsalWritten with the characters for resentment and anger: the slot where two people grate on each other without an identifiable cause. Given as six zodiac pairings.