What Do You See When You Reread a Saju Reading Months Later?
What you see isn't whether it came true — it's the person you were in between. Jot down a few lines from today's reading, the parts that landed, and come back to them after some time has passed. This isn't grading. If the sentence you underlined then and the sentence your eyes rest on now are different, that gap itself is material for reflection.
Wouldn't rereading at least settle whether it was accurate?
That verdict is less trustworthy than it feels. We all carry confirmation bias — the habit of keeping only the memories that fit what we already believe — so the parts that seemed to hit stay vivid while the days that missed drop out of the count. That's why you need a record instead of a memory: keep the words from that day, and you can step back from the illusion of "see, it was right all along." Even then, the value isn't in confirming hits — it's on the mirror side of things, as Saju Isn't About Predicting the Future puts it.
When is a good time to reread?
About one solar term later. Solar terms are the seasonal joints that divide the sun's path into twenty-four, and in Saju they also mark the boundaries of the months — so the turning of one joint makes a fitting interval. Your natal eight characters never change; the material stays the same, but the reader has moved. If the fun of Saju is the axis of chance encounter, this note is the axis of comparison across time. A Saju reading isn't a fixed fate — it's a reference for looking back at yourself, and rereading is simply that, extended.
Based on deterministic perpetual-calendar calculations and established Saju concepts — a reference for self-reflection, not a fixed fate.