Born on December 31

The pattern of your day

Born on December 31, you audit the year while everybody predicts, and Capricorn earth loads its seriousness early and lightens with age.

On the last day of the year everybody else is making resolutions, which are predictions. You are doing the harder and less popular thing, which is looking at what actually happened.

You keep an honest account. You know what this year cost, what it returned, which of the things you told yourself in January turned out to be true. Almost nobody enjoys your company on the thirty-first and you are the only one in the room who will still be accurate about this year in March.

Here is the part worth telling you, and it is genuinely good news.

You were old as a child and you are getting younger. It is an old observation about people born in this stretch of the calendar: the seriousness is front loaded. What made you strange at twenty-two makes you excellent at fifty, and somewhere in between something loosens that had been tight since before you can remember.

Most people tighten with age. You are running the other way, and the last day of the year is a fitting birthday for a life that reads backwards.

Find your year

Birth hexagrams for December 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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