Born on December 21

The pattern of your day

The solstice is a stall, so December 21 falls to fire in some years and earth in others, holding a seeker who wants things finished.

The solstice is a stall, not an instant. The word means the sun standing still, and for roughly three days around it the sun rises and sets in very nearly the same place, which is why nobody looking at the sky can tell you precisely when the turn happened. Your birthday sits inside that stall.

Some years the fire sign still holds this date. Some years the earth sign has taken it. The sky does not resolve the question and neither does the date.

So you carry the seeker and the builder in one body, at full strength, and they do not get on. One of them wants to know what it is all for. The other wants the thing finished by March.

Most people meet only one. You have been described as restless by somebody who watched you leave a good job, and as relentlessly steady by somebody who watched you finish a five-year project, and neither of them was inventing anything.

The longest night is a strange thing to be born on. Everything is at its least and nothing is going wrong.

Find your year

Birth hexagrams for December 21, 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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