Born on September 13

The pattern of your day

Born on September 13, the first version only finds out what you meant, and Virgo earth withholds good work whose sole defect is being unfinished.

Nothing good survives its first version. The first is for finding out what you meant. Everything that makes a thing worth reading happens afterwards, in the pass nobody sees.

You are a reviser and you distrust anybody who is not. Your discomfort with people who ship the first attempt is not snobbery. It is that you have seen what the second pass does and cannot un-see it.

The earth signs work in materials rather than in flashes, and September's is the reworking end of the year.

The failure is knowing when a draft is the last one. Given infinite passes you will take them, and you have improved things past the point of improvement into something more correct and less alive.

Somewhere there is a good thing of yours that nobody has read, and its only defect is that it is not finished being improved.

The version with a flaw in it that somebody actually read beats the perfect one you are still holding. You know this. You have never once acted on it.

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Birth hexagrams for September 13, 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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