What the calculation does
Tojeong Bigyeol is read once a year, traditionally in the first month of the lunar calendar, to see the shape of the year ahead. The method converts your birth year, month and day into three numbers, and those three combine into a hexagram figure that indexes the text. Our tool performs that conversion for the year you select, so the number you get is the number the method gives — not a random draw, and the same birth data will produce the same figure every time you check the same year.
What you get back
A reading for the year as a whole, then a separate passage for each of the twelve lunar months, plus themed sections covering money, work, relationships and health. The monthly passages are the part people actually use: the tradition is less interested in a verdict for the year than in telling you which months to push and which to hold steady.
How to read it
Read the year passage first as the weather, then the months as the days you plan around it. A cautioning month is not a bad month — the classical texts are advisory in tone, and a line telling you to avoid a large decision in the fifth month is best read as timing advice rather than prohibition. It also helps to read the whole year at once rather than checking month by month, because the shape of a year in this system is usually a rise and fall, and a single month means little apart from the ones around it.
Questions people ask
The reading is tied to the lunar year, so a fresh reading belongs at the start of each new year rather than whenever you feel like checking. If your birthday falls in the first weeks of January, the lunar year boundary may place you differently than the solar calendar would, which the calculator resolves for you. And Tojeong has always been read in a light spirit — as a New Year custom shared with family, closer to a seasonal ritual than to a prophecy.