I Ching: Sunday, August 30

One of the sixty-four hexagrams

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Abundance

Hexagram 55 is the sun at noon: fullness, and the fact that noon does not last. Something is at its peak today and the classic is unusually direct about the implication. Do not be sad about it. Use the light while it is overhead rather than spending the hour worrying about the afternoon. What you can see clearly now will be harder to see later, so decide the thing that needs deciding today.

For your star sign

The same reading, taken through each sign of the zodiac.

Aries

Hexagram 55 is the sun at noon and noon does not last. Use the light while it is overhead rather than spending the hour worrying about the afternoon, which is your instinct once something is going well. Decide inside the hour rather than after it.

Taurus

Fullness suits you and the warning attached to it does not. Enjoy the abundance without immediately converting it into storage. What is at its peak is meant to be used at its peak. Use it at its peak rather than storing it for later.

Gemini

You will want to spend the fullness on several things at once. The classic says do not be sad, and it also says the sun stands at midday. Pick the one thing worth the light.

Cancer

Abundance makes you anxious about its ending, which spoils the having of it. The card is explicit: do not be sad. That instruction is aimed at exactly this reflex.

Leo

This is your weather and your card. Fullness, warmth, being at the height of something. The only counsel is that noon is a moment rather than a condition, so act inside it.

Virgo

You will see the decline before it arrives and start preparing. That is prudent and it is also how you miss the peak entirely. Be here while it is here.

Libra

Peak energy and no interest in what follows, which is the risk. Decide now what you want completed while the light holds, because it will not hold long enough for everything.

Scorpio

Abundance is uncomfortable for you because it feels like it must be paid for. It does not. Take the good stretch without arranging a penance for afterwards.

Sagittarius

You will use the fullness to open three new things. The classic wants one decision made in full light rather than several begun in it.

Capricorn

You will inspect the abundance for the flaw that explains it. There is not one. Do the work that needs clear seeing and skip the audit of your own good fortune.

Aquarius

You will distribute it before enjoying any of it. That is generous and it is also avoidance. Take your share of the noon first.

Pisces

You will feel the ending inside the fullness and grieve it early. The classic says be like the sun at midday. Stay in the light while it is actually overhead.

For your Chinese animal

The same reading, taken through each animal of the Chinese zodiac.

Rat

You will bank the surplus before using any of it. Something here is worth spending at its peak rather than storing against a winter that may not come.

Ox

Fullness rewards your patience at last. Take it slowly and take it fully, and resist turning the whole harvest into next year's security.

Tiger

Peak light and peak energy, which suits you exactly. Aim it at the one thing that needs deciding rather than at everything that looks possible.

Rabbit

You will enjoy it quietly and slip away before it peaks, out of an instinct to avoid the crowd. Stay for the whole of it this once.

Dragon

This is your card: magnitude, warmth, being at the height of something. Just remember that noon is an hour rather than a season.

Snake

You will read the decline in the light before anybody notices it. Correct, and premature. Use the clarity rather than acting on the forecast.

Horse

Full energy and short attention. Decide what gets finished under this light, because there will not be a second noon this week.

Goat

Abundance makes you anxious rather than glad. The classic anticipates exactly that and says plainly not to be sad. Let it be good.

Monkey

You will invent four uses for it and complete none. One use, chosen while the light is overhead, is the whole instruction.

Rooster

You will find what is imperfect inside the abundance and fix that instead of using it. The flaw can wait until the light drops.

Dog

You will guard it rather than enjoy it, and nothing is threatening it. Put the watch down for one afternoon.

Pig

You will share it generously before taking any yourself. Take your portion first this time; the generosity survives it.

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