📜 Tojeong Bigyeol
Yearly Fortune by Scholar Yi Ji-ham
📖 What is Tojeong Bigyeol?
Tojeong Bigyeol is a fortune-telling book attributed to Scholar Tojeong Yi Ji-ham from the mid-Joseon Dynasty. Based on your birth date, it selects one of 144 hexagrams to predict the year's fortune.
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What is Tojeong Bigyeol?
Tojeong Bigyeol is a traditional Korean fortune-telling book attributed to the great scholar Tojeong Yi Ji-ham from the mid-Joseon Dynasty. Based on your birth date, it selects one of 144 hexagrams to predict the year's overall fortune and monthly fortunes.
With over 500 years of history, Tojeong Bigyeol has become part of seasonal customs, with many people consulting it at the start of each new year. Based on the principles of Yin-Yang, the Five Elements, and I Ching, it is a traditional fortune-telling method deeply rooted in Korean life and culture.
How to Use Tojeong Bigyeol
- Enter your birth date accurately (solar or lunar calendar)
- Select the year you want to check your fortune
- Combine upper trigram (age), middle trigram (month), and lower trigram (day) to derive your fortune hexagram
- Check your overall fortune, category fortune, quarterly fortune, and monthly fortune
Frequently Asked Questions
Traditionally, Tojeong Bigyeol is based on the lunar calendar. However, modern services often convert solar dates to lunar dates. Our service automatically converts solar input to lunar dates for accurate fortune reading.
Tojeong Bigyeol is a traditional fortune-telling method passed down for over 500 years, and many people have trusted its experiential wisdom. However, please use the fortune as reference material and remember that your own effort and choices are most important.
In Tojeong Bigyeol, Sang-gwa (upper trigram) comes from age, Jung-gwa (middle trigram) from birth month, and Ha-gwa (lower trigram) from birth day. These three trigrams combine to determine one of 144 fortunes. Each trigram is based on the eight trigrams (Geon, Tae, Yi, Jin, Son, Gam, Gan, Gon).
No, Tojeong Bigyeol calculates the upper trigram based on age, so the fortune changes every year. Even the same person receives different fortunes each year, which is a key characteristic of Tojeong Bigyeol.