Born on July 17

The pattern of your day

Born on July 17, everything costs more and shows less, so Cancer water should ask for time it assumed was fixed.

Walking in water is slower and costs more. You arrive having covered a third of the distance for twice the effort, with nothing to show anybody for it.

Some seasons of your life have been entirely like this. Not dramatic, not a crisis: simply everything requiring more than it should, for months, in a way that is impossible to describe without sounding self-pitying.

Cancer in the second half of July knows the difference between a hard time and a heavy medium. The first has an event you can name. The second is just the density of the days.

What you need in those stretches is not encouragement, which assumes a motivation problem you do not have. It is either help carrying, or permission to arrive later than planned.

The people who love you cannot tell the two apart from outside, which is why they keep offering encouragement you have no use for.

Ask for the second more often. Almost every deadline you have treated as fixed turned out to be somebody's estimate.

Find your year

Birth hexagrams for July 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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