Born on January 21

The pattern of your day

Born on January 21, you love humanity in the abstract and find whoever is actually in the room much harder: Aquarius air.

You care enormously about people you will never meet, and find the person actually in front of you exhausting.

You will read about a policy failure affecting strangers on another continent and feel it properly, in your body, for days. Your neighbour wants eleven minutes about a fence and you would rather do almost anything else available on earth.

This is not hypocrisy, though it has been called that by somebody who was hurt at the time.

Abstract people are legible. They have interests, they respond to conditions, and their suffering has causes that can be traced and in principle removed. Particular people are irreducible. They are slow, they repeat themselves, they want things that cannot be systematised, and they will not be improved by an accurate analysis of their situation.

The correction is not to care less about the distant ones. It is to notice which kind of caring has ever actually reached anybody.

The eleven minutes cost you something. That is precisely what makes them the real transaction, and the continent, which costs you nothing, is not one.

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Birth hexagrams for January 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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