Born on July 16

The pattern of your day

July 16 turns in place behind an obstacle, and no amount of Cancer water thinking harder has ever changed the flow.

Behind every rock in a river there is a small pocket of water going the wrong way. The main current has moved on. This part turns in place, endlessly, held there by the obstacle it sits behind.

You have one of those. There is a conversation, a decision, a version of an event that you have been circling for years while the rest of your life has clearly moved downstream, and you can describe it in more detail now than when it actually happened.

Water in the second half of July recirculates. It is the shadow side of your best quality: the same depth that makes your loyalty real is what keeps the eddy turning.

What gets water out of an eddy is never effort. It is a change in the flow, or somebody reaching in. Thinking harder about it has not worked once in a decade of trying.

Say it to another person. That is the reaching in.

Find your year

Birth hexagrams for July 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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