Born on April 9

The pattern of your day

Born on April 9, you climb on rising air while others flap, and Aries fire has deliberately underdeveloped the ability to work without lift.

Birds over open ground in April stop flapping. They find the column of warm air rising off a field and they climb on it, doing almost nothing, going up.

You are very good at finding those. Some of it is luck and most of it is that you attend to conditions rather than to effort, and you would rather wait a week for a rising current than spend a month beating upward through still air.

People who work harder than you find this infuriating, particularly when it works. Fire in the second week of April is buoyant rather than forceful, and buoyancy is not laziness however much it resembles it from below.

The honest caution is that updrafts are conditional. Every so often the field is cold and there is nothing to climb, and you will need the unglamorous ability to simply flap, which you have deliberately underdeveloped.

Lift is what this date gives. Your birth year decides the altitude, calculated in the table that follows.

Find your year

Birth hexagrams for April 9, 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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