Born on April 14

The pattern of your day

April 14 was heated and then cooled the hard way, and Aries fire assumes the tempering finished when the cycle returns in your forties.

Steel that has only been heated is soft. Steel that has only been cooled is brittle. What makes a blade is the order you do them in.

You have had both halves. Something in your history heated you considerably and something else cooled you fast, and the result is a person who is neither naive nor bitter, a narrower path than it sounds and one not many people stay on.

Aries in mid-April supplies the heat readily. The cooling you supplied yourself, usually the hard way, and it is the part you are least likely to describe to anybody.

What you should know is that tempering is not a finished process. People who have been through it once assume they are done, then meet something in their forties requiring the entire cycle again.

You are better prepared for it than most, mainly because you already know what the process costs. Hardness and flexibility both sit in the date. The proportions belong to your year, calculated just after this.

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Birth hexagrams for April 14, by year

What is a Birth Hexagram?

Your Birth Hexagram Triad is three things at once: a Primary Hexagram (who you are), a Changing Line (your growth edge), and a Resultant Hexagram (who you are becoming). It is computed, not guessed, from the Chinese lunar calendar via the Plum Blossom method.

Read more about the Birth Hexagram Triad, or see how we calculate for the arithmetic shown openly.

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