Monday, July 14th, 2025, Lunar June 20th

Today's Energy Guide

Today's hexagram:Water land ratio（䷇）

The Book of Changesauxiliary word for ordinal numberseightdivinatory symbols，Upstream (water) and downstream (earth), water is attached to the earth.

Hexagram revelation:Water moistens the earth without losing its nature, and gathers the streams of water while each guards its own boundary. A friendship between gentlemen should be like a water and a marsh: treating each other with sincerity and nourishing each other; Maintain clarity and authenticity. Being too close leads to a loss of balance, while being too distant leads to a loss of harmony. Old wise people tend to be close but not intimate, harmonious but different, like two adjacent marshes and water surfaces connected but varying in depth.

Pong in hemp, straight without support;Baisha in Nie, both black and dark.

——Xunzi's "Persuasion on Learning"

Today in history  

French Revolution Oil Painting

one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nineOn this day of the year, the people of ParisCapture the BastilleThis marked the outbreak of the French Revolution. Ruled France for hundreds of yearsbourbon dynastyThe absolute monarchy system rapidly disintegrated within just three years. This revolution triggered a profound change in French society: traditional aristocratic and religious privileges were fiercely challenged by emerging liberal ideologies and popular movements, and old feudal concepts were gradually replaced by innate human rightsseparation of powersReplace it with modern democratic concepts. As one of the most influential revolutions in modern world history, the French Revolution not only completely destroyed France's feudal autocratic rule, but also shook the entire feudal system in Europe, providing an important model for democratic revolutions in later countries.