TOJEONG BIGYEOL · 641
Tojeong Bigyeol Hexagram 641
The sign of keeping a careful heart and a bold spirit, always at peace
At a glance
- Hexagram
- 641
- Upper · middle · lower
- 6 · 4 · 1
- The year overall
- A good year
- Brighter months
- lunar months 2, 4, 6, 9 and 12
- Months to take care
- lunar months 1, 3, 5, 8 and 10
Luna Alley's Tojeong readings are for fun and reflection. Read even a difficult hexagram as a guide to how you carry yourself through the year.
The original verse and its meaning
- 心小膽大 居常孝寧
With a careful mind and a bold heart, you always fulfill your filial duty and live in peace. - 此中排衾 長調玉琴
Amid it all, you have the ease to lay out your bedding and play the jade geomungo (a Korean zither) at length. - 雲出畝上 龍孔虎伏
Clouds rise over the furrows of the field; the dragon is in its cave and the tiger lies low, waiting for the time. - 松風蘿月 鳳飛紫草
The pine wind blows and the moon shines through the vines, and a phoenix flies over the purple grass.
The verses follow the public-domain Tojeong Bigyeol held by the National Library of Korea; the meanings are Luna Alley's own retelling.
The year ahead
This is a good year when you move both carefully and boldly. There's ease, like spreading out your bedding and playing the zither at length. The time ripens, like clouds rising over the fields and dragons and tigers crouching in wait, and a phoenix flies beneath the pine breeze and the moon among the vines.
This is a good year when the way opens if you combine carefulness with boldness. The line about keeping the mind small and the heart bold means prepare meticulously but don't hesitate when it's time to decide. As the words about always fulfilling filial duty and living in peace say, a heart that cares well for the elders of the family underpins the year's blessings. The scene of laying out bedding and playing the geomungo says that ease and rest amid busyness protect your luck. Clouds rising over the field with the dragon and tiger lying low means great strength is still waiting for its time, so keep low in bad months and move with all your might in good ones. In the second, fourth, sixth, ninth and twelfth lunar months, energy opens wide, bringing benefactors, money and family celebrations. Like the phoenix flying under pine wind and moonlight, the year ends clear and graceful.
A word from Master Tojeong
“Use your mind as fine as thread and your heart as great as a mountain. The dragon lies low not for lack of strength but because it awaits its time. Serve your parents well and the phoenix will alight in your courtyard.”
Month by month (summary)
Only a short note and the original verse for each month. Dates are the 2027 lunar months.
- Lunar month 1Feb 7 – Mar 7Care
It's the first lunar month of the new year, so your heart runs ahead but your feet won't quite move. Rather than clinging to hard-to-achieve plans, realistically decide a few things you must do this year.
在家無益 出路何向 虛荒之事 晝思夜度 · Staying home brings no benefit, and when you try to go out there's nowhere fitting to go. You brood day and night over fanciful matters.
- Lunar month 2Mar 8 – Apr 6Bright
What you've been preparing comes to light this month. When chances to show yourself come, like presentations, interviews or exams, don't hesitate; step forward.
潛龍昇天 天下文明 貴人來助 事事如意 · The hidden dragon rises to heaven and the whole world brightens. A noble person comes to help, so everything easily goes as you wish.
- Lunar month 3Apr 7 – May 5Care
Things pile up all at once and it's hard to get your bearings this month. Set an order and handle them one by one and they'll be sorted faster than you think.
事無頭緖 謀事不成 名掛公門 可免此厄 · Your affairs lack order, so what you plan doesn't come about. Put your name on an official roll and you can escape this trouble.
- Lunar month 4May 6 – Jun 4Bright
Financial energy comes in strongly this month. Pay for your work or business income may become ample.
財貨滿載 船人之樂 財福如山 家人一悅 · Like a boat loaded full of goods, the boatmen rejoice. Wealth and blessings pile up like a mountain and the whole household is glad.
- Lunar month 5Jun 5 – Jul 3Care
Riding high on last month's good energy, you'll want to dabble in this and that this month. Hold off on new businesses, side gigs or investment pitches, and focus on what you were doing.
勿爲他營 反爲損財 此月之數 出行不利 · Don't start other ventures; you'll lose money instead. This month's fortune doesn't favor going out.
- Lunar month 6Jul 4 – Aug 1Bright
Your home overflows with laughter this month. Money is plentiful, and happy news about children or new family members may come.
金玉滿堂 膝下有慶 春風暖和 萬物自生 · Gold and jade fill the house and there's a celebration for your children. The spring breeze is warm, so all things grow of themselves.
- Lunar month 7Aug 2 – Aug 31Even
It's a fine month if you quietly strengthen things on the inside. It's better to keep your plans to yourself and refine them for now.
出則有悔 入則心安 心中所懷 向人莫說 · Going out brings regret and coming home brings ease. Don't tell others what you hold in your heart.
- Lunar month 8Sep 1 – Sep 29Care
The math looks favorable, but quarrels easily arise along the way this month. Make the terms of deals or contracts clear and put them in writing.
以羊易牛 小往大來 莫近是非 官災難免 · Like giving a sheep in exchange for an ox, you give little and get much. But go near disputes and legal trouble is hard to avoid.
- Lunar month 9Sep 30 – Oct 28Bright
This is a welcome month when what you need is filled just in time. Even without going out of your way, good chances and news come to you first.
渴龍得水 飢虎得食 運數亨通 不求自得 · The thirsty dragon finds water and the starving tiger finds prey. Fortune flows freely, so you gain without even seeking.
- Lunar month 10Oct 29 – Nov 27Care
You can see things that are hard to revive however much you try this month. Rather than continuing to pour strength into hopeless matters, boldly winding them up is wisdom.
春雨如膏 朽木難蘇 東西兩方 謀事不利 · Even if spring rain falls like oil, a rotten tree is hard to revive. Plans in the two directions of east and west bring no benefit.
- Lunar month 11Nov 28 – Dec 27Even
Ride the flow and things work out naturally this month. But not everything will burst into full bloom at once, so lower your expectations a little and you'll feel at ease.
魚龍得水 造化無雙 東園春色 必無全盛 · Fish and dragon find their water and the harmony is beyond compare. Yet the spring light in the eastern garden is not yet at its peak.
- Lunar month 12Dec 28 – Jan 26, 2028Bright
You close the year joyfully this month. Money becomes plentiful and things get done through good people's introductions or help.
子丑兩月 必有慶事 財祿旺盛 因人成功 · In the two months of the Rat and the Ox (ja-wol and chuk-wol, the last two months of the year), there may be celebrations. Wealth and rewards flourish and you succeed through people.
The nine readings by area (money, love, work, health and more) and the long monthly readings open in the Tojeong Bigyeol app once you find your own hexagram.
Who gets this hexagram?
The hexagram depends on your lunar birth date and the year being read. The upper number comes from your Korean age that year plus the year's taese number, the middle from the length and month number of your birth month that year, and the lower from your birth day plus the day number. So the same person gets a different hexagram each year.
By the formula, nobody receives this hexagram in 2027. Lunar month lengths and cycles change each year, so it does turn up in other years. For example, someone born on lunar 6/1/1984 receives this hexagram in 2028.
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Frequently asked questions
Is Tojeong hexagram 641 a good one?
Hexagram 641 is read as a good year. This is a good year when you move both carefully and boldly. There's ease, like spreading out your bedding and playing the zither at length.
Which months need care in hexagram 641?
In hexagram 641, the lower months are lunar months 1, 3, 5, 8 and 10. Avoid rushing big decisions then, and go easy on your body and your words.
How do I find my own Tojeong hexagram?
Enter your birth date in the Luna Alley Tojeong Bigyeol page and it converts solar to lunar and works out the hexagram for you. To do it by hand, the 2027 guide shows the formula with an example.