Born on January 16

The pattern of your day

Born on January 16, you have made thirty sensible choices in a row, and Capricorn earth has narrowed your life by increments.

You have taken the sensible option so many times that you have built a life you respect and do not particularly enjoy.

Each individual decision was correct. That is what makes this difficult to argue with and difficult to live inside. The reliable job over the interesting one, the sound house in the dull area, the steady person over the one who made you laugh: examined one at a time, every single choice holds up, and you could defend any of them in detail this afternoon.

The problem is that correctness does not aggregate the way you assumed.

Thirty sensible decisions in a row do not produce a sensible life. They produce a narrow one, and the narrowing happened in increments small enough that no individual step was ever the wrong step.

Nobody is going to tell you this, because from outside it looks like everything is fine, and everything is fine.

You are not obliged to blow anything up. But one deliberately unreasonable choice a year is a rounding error against what you have built, and it is the only correction available.

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Birth hexagrams for January 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.

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