Born on March 17

The pattern of your day

Born on March 17, you sense what frost the year is still holding, and Pisces water stays braced long past any danger.

There is a frost that comes after the thaw has clearly won. It changes nothing about the outcome and it can still kill whatever came up early.

You have an unusually good sense for this. You are the person in an optimistic room who says, quietly, that we should probably wait one more week, and you are right often enough that people have stopped finding it annoying. It is not pessimism. It is that you can feel the cold still available in the system.

Water in late winter holds both things at once, the melting and the refreezing, and arriving in that has given you a temperament that does not need a situation to resolve before it can act.

The cost is a reluctance to fully commit to good news. You brace. Sometimes you brace so thoroughly that you are still braced long after the danger has passed, and you miss the season you were protecting.

The I Ching would call that a pattern rather than a flaw. Your year of birth defines its edges, and the table below draws them.

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Birth hexagrams for March 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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