I Ching: Wednesday, September 2

One of the sixty-four hexagrams

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Contemplation

Hexagram 20 is the moment after the hands are washed and before the offering is made: full of trust, nothing yet performed. Today is for looking rather than acting. What you observe now sets what you do later, and rushing to the offering spoils both. Let the pause be deliberate. Being watched matters here too, so consider what your waiting is showing other people.

For your star sign

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

Aries

Hexagram 20 is the moment after the hands are washed and before the offering is made. Today is for looking rather than acting, and rushing to the offering spoils both halves of it. Look properly today and act tomorrow on better information.

Taurus

Watching suits you and this card adds something: you are also being watched. What your waiting shows other people is part of what it does.

Gemini

Today is observation and you will find it close to unbearable. Nothing is required of you yet. Look properly and act tomorrow with better information.

Cancer

You watch by instinct and the card asks you to notice that others are reading you in turn. Let what they see be deliberate.

Leo

You are visible today whether or not you are acting, which is the part of this card that concerns you. Be worth watching while you wait.

Virgo

Your natural condition, and the card is unusually kind about it. Observe without correcting. What you see today sets what you do for a month.

Libra

You will watch two options and hope one resolves itself. Contemplation is not indecision. Look in order to decide, not instead of deciding.

Scorpio

You will watch and say nothing, which is your strength here. The addition is that your silence is itself legible to the room.

Sagittarius

Standing still and looking is not your instrument. Do it for one day. What you learn will save a week of moving in the wrong direction. One day of looking saves a week of wrong direction.

Capricorn

You will use the pause to plan rather than to see. Look first. The plan built on today's observation is better than the one you brought.

Aquarius

You will observe the system and forget you are inside it. Contemplation includes noticing your own position in what you are watching.

Pisces

You are already watching more than you are acting. The card asks you to make it deliberate, and to notice that others take their cue from your stillness.

For your Chinese animal

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

Rat

Watching quietly is your natural setting, and the card adds that you are watched in turn. Let the stillness be deliberate rather than habitual.

Ox

Patience is easy today. The instruction is to look rather than merely to wait, and those differ more than they appear from inside.

Tiger

Doing nothing will be hard. Observe properly today and act tomorrow on information you do not currently have.

Rabbit

You will watch from a distance, which is right, and then step back further than needed. Stay close enough to actually see.

Dragon

You are conspicuous while you wait. Be worth watching, since the pause is public whether or not you intended it.

Snake

Your card. Observation without commitment. The only caution is watching so long that the moment quietly passes. Consider whether what you know is more useful said.

Horse

Stillness feels like waste to you. One day of it buys a week of moving in the right direction.

Goat

You will watch and take the room's mood inside as your own. Observe it without absorbing it. Ask for help before you are emptied by it.

Monkey

You will get bored and start something to relieve it. Sit with the looking; it is the whole of today's work.

Rooster

You will observe in order to correct. Observe in order to understand, and hold the corrections until tomorrow.

Dog

You will watch for threats. Watch for the shape of the thing instead, because nothing is coming. Aim it at what actually happened rather than the pattern.

Pig

You are already in the watching. Make it deliberate and write down what you notice before it dissolves.

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