An annual reading, this time: the first thing Maria does on her birthday is to sit down and ask to be shown a reading for the coming year. Here's hers for 2023-24: Hexagram 36, Brightness Hiding, with no changing lines.







Since this was an unchanging reading, we had the time and space to explore some of the hexagram's 'relations': its inverse and contrast, 35, Advancing -







and its complement or opposite - the hexagram where every line is different - 6, Arguing:







And not least, its hidden core, the nuclear hexagram, 40:







...which seemed to open everything out for her.



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