Born on January 17

The pattern of your day

January 17 finishes the part nobody will ever see, which leaves Capricorn earth as its own only audience, and a lonely one.

You finish the part that nobody will ever see. The back of the panel, the code that works and is also readable, the joint that would have held perfectly well if you had done it badly.

There is no audience for this. That is the entire point and also the difficulty.

You are not doing it for a client, who cannot see it, or for a colleague, who would not check. You are doing it because you would know, and knowing turns out to be sufficient motivation, which puts you in a small category of people and a fairly lonely one.

The loneliness is worth naming plainly. Nobody will ever say the specific thing you would want said, because saying it would require them to have noticed what you did, and the whole nature of the work is that it cannot be noticed.

So you have gone a long time without the one form of recognition that would actually mean anything to you.

Find one other person who works this way. Not for praise. For the relief of not having to explain why it matters.

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Birth hexagrams for January 17, 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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