I Ching Birthdays
Born on December 16
Sagittarius season - the fire sign of the western zodiac
The pattern of your day
December 16 answers the question that was asked, which leaves Sagittarius fire transacting on one channel while the room runs two.
You answer the question that was asked. This sounds like a virtue and about half the time it is a catastrophe.
Somebody asks whether the piece is any good. They are not requesting an assessment. They are asking to be accompanied through a difficult afternoon, and the words came out as a question because that is how people who cannot ask for reassurance ask for reassurance.
You give them an assessment. A careful one, fair, with the strengths named first, and they thank you and something has gone wrong that neither of you can locate.
Subtext is not a code you failed to crack. It is a whole second channel that most conversations run on, and you have been transacting on the first channel alone for your entire life and wondering why exchanges keep ending oddly.
The good news is that this is learnable, unlike most of what makes people difficult.
Ask what kind of answer they want. Out loud, plainly, without embarrassment. It is not a clumsy question. It is the only reliable way in for somebody built like you.
Find your year
Birth hexagrams for December 16, 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.