Hello Cashme:

Here is my question:

This month, will my brother get a visa to travel to the US?

This was asked in Atlanta, GA, 9:50pm.

Your question is very specific. It's a yes no question. So what I can say is he won’t be getting a visa this month. Next month is likely as month s (from Aug 7 to 6th Sept) will enable the self line to move. Currently the self line is loosen by the date as well as bonded to the date. However I can not speak with certainty that he will get a visa next month, for Alex had cautioned that a I Ching reader must not say an event can happen at a different month when the question is specifically confined to that specific month. What Alex had suggested was to ask the inquirer to toss the coins again to ask whether that event can happen, say in month s. The new hexagram may or may not confirm that the event will happen in month s.

It also appears that sometime an inquirer asked about an event happening in that specific month, but I Ching may give an answer for that specific day. I would appear to me that on day s (31st July 2008), he may get his visa. The self line can reach Ps (signifies a contract or visa), and is supported back by it. The self line is also linked 5th line Bs, which incidentally also takes the self line to the winner star Rsh.. (I would not rather interpret R as a fear or trouble or problem star, unless that was your mentality when you tossed the coins, which I assumed not).

Although I give you the no and yes answers, the yes in condition upon that specific day which is highly unlikely to be consistent with your question “this month” rather than “any day within this month”.