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Your Sun hexagram

Han-dynasty calendar makers paired twelve hexagrams with the twelve mid-points of the solar year — the same twelve points where the tropical signs begin. The match is exact, not poetic.

The year breathes: light grows from Capricorn to Gemini, and withdraws from Cancer to Sagittarius. Some signs get gentle hexagrams and some get hard ones. We don't soften them.

  1. Capricorn24 · 復 · ReturnLight growing
  2. Aquarius19 · 臨 · ApproachLight growing
  3. Pisces11 · 泰 · PeaceLight growing
  4. Aries34 · 大壯 · Great PowerLight growing
  5. Taurus43 · 夬 · BreakthroughLight growing
  6. Gemini1 · 乾 · The CreativeLight growing
  7. Cancer44 · 姤 · Coming to MeetLight withdrawing
  8. Leo33 · 遯 · RetreatLight withdrawing
  9. Virgo12 · 否 · StandstillLight withdrawing
  10. Libra20 · 觀 · ContemplationLight withdrawing
  11. Scorpio23 · 剝 · Splitting ApartLight withdrawing
  12. Sagittarius2 · 坤 · The ReceptiveLight withdrawing