Born on October 18

The pattern of your day

October 18 removes parts until removal starts hurting, though Libra air should find out why the last piece was ever there.

The elegant solution is not the clever one. Cleverness adds. Elegance is what is left when there is nothing else that can come out without the thing falling over.

You subtract by instinct. Given a plan, a paragraph, a process or a room, you keep removing until removal starts making it worse, and then you stop one step back from that. The result looks obvious afterwards, which is the whole point and also why nobody thanks you for it.

Where the October air is at its most exacting, it prefers fewer parts.

The blind spot is that subtraction has a floor and you do not always find it before you hit it. Some things are complicated because the problem underneath them is complicated, and the redundancy you just stripped out was somebody's hard-won answer to a failure you have never personally seen.

Before you remove the last piece, find out why it is there. Not from the documents, which will not say, but from whoever put it in. Half the time it is legacy clutter. The other half it is the only reason the thing has not broken yet.

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Birth hexagrams for October 18, 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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