Born on August 31

The pattern of your day

August 31 turns waste into something worth more, though Virgo earth extracts the lesson while the thing is still only an injury.

Composting is the discipline of deciding that something is not waste. What comes out is worth more than what went in, and the whole process is simply organised patience.

You do this with your own difficult years. Almost nothing in your history is left as merely bad. You have gone back over it, worked out what was usable, and returned it to the ground in a form that feeds something, and people who know you well have benefited from failures of yours that predate them entirely.

Earth on the last day of August converts rather than discards. It is why your advice is worth having and why it never sounds like a lecture.

The thing to be careful about is timing. Fresh material has to sit before it is any use, and you have occasionally rushed to extract the lesson from something that was still just an injury.

It is allowed to be only a bad thing for a while.

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Birth hexagrams for August 31, 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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