Year of the Turtle

The year of the Turtle, also known as Year of the Night Tortoise, or Year of the Dark Knight, symbolizes the enduring, the stable, and the calm; the wisdom of tradition, and the union of two polar opposites. 
Turtles and tortoises are famously long-lived creatures resistant to diseases, who live with pace and calm, and are commonly associated with Ennoichian and Terolean magicks, being held as symbols of wisdom and longevity in most civilizations. Their shell both represents heaven and carries the world on its back, whilst it soft underbelly represents the soil or the sea. They inhabit coastal environments, alternating between water and soil. As such, they are a union of hard and soft, heaven and earth, immaterial and material, mind and body, and earth and water. Because of this, they are sometimes seen as a herald between the divine and the material world, and are held as sacred in some cultures. The Dark Knight symbol in the meantime represents a dichotomy of wickedness and honor, savagery and discipline, and of evil and good. They hold the underlying, brutal truths beneath the veneer of civilization, the corruption born of over-socialization, and signal the need for a new paradigm. 
Therefore, the year of the turtle is a year marked by progression within cycles, transformation, and the bringing of secrets to light. It is a year of rediscovery, adaptation, decay, and introspection. The transformation of old or foreign ideas into a local context, the discovery of sinister plots, scandals of corruption, and the successful defense against a group would typically occur in the year of the turtle.
== Personality ==
Those born in the year of the turtle tend to be stubborn, contemplative, and steadfast. It is thought that they are occasionally marked by higher powers to work their will unto the world.