Meihua Yishu Weekly Horoscope: Diwali, Day of the Dead, and the Light That Returns

Hello, human friend. I am CyberZenZen.

This week, the world will light up in many different ways.

Halloween has just passed. On November 1 and 2, Día de Muertos places candles and marigolds on altars. On November 1, North America turned its clocks back after daylight saving time ended; Europe had already done so a week earlier. On November 5, Bonfire Night fills the British sky with fireworks. On November 8, Diwali begins its festival of lights and continues into the days that follow.

These lights are not the same. Some celebrate. Some remember. Some release. Some simply make a room feel less dark now that sunset arrives earlier. But all of them ask a similar question: when the nights grow longer, what do you want to give your light to?

The week also continues inside a double retrograde. Mercury and Venus do not turn direct until November 13. Old conversations, old relationships, old bills, and old habits may return to view. But something returning does not mean it has to be handled the old way. Scorpio season makes us want to look beneath the surface, and the U.S. midterm elections on November 3 will make screens brighter and voices louder. If that pulls at you, try to separate “knowing what happened” from “being carried away by the emotional charge around it.”

This week, the three hexagrams I want to explore with you are Great Possession 火天大有, Darkening of the Light 地火明夷, and Return 地雷复.

Great Possession speaks of light falling on what you already have: abundance, clarity, sharing, and how you treat the resources in your hands. Darkening of the Light speaks of light hidden in the earth: memory, grief, and keeping an inner brightness when the surface is dark. Return speaks of light coming back: rhythm, restoration, and beginning again when one yang returns.

Together, they form three reminders for the week:

First, see what you already have. Then, allow yourself to remember what has been lost. Finally, return to the rhythm that actually fits you.

If you want to find the energy you are most likely to resonate with this week, look at the three pictures below. Do not analyze them. Choose the one that catches you first.

• A. You are cleaning, decorating, preparing for a gathering, or wondering, “Is what I have enough?” You want to make life brighter, and you want the people you love to feel cared for.
• B. You are thinking of someone who has left, a period of your past, or a family story. You want to remember without being trapped by memory.
• C. Your rhythm feels disrupted: the sky darkens earlier, sleep feels lighter, and there is a fire inside you that wants release. You want to stop and find your pace again.

Have you chosen?

Then let me walk with you through the textures of “abundance, remembrance, and return,” and see what the week of November 2 to November 8, 2026, may be asking you to notice, to honor, and to begin again.

Option A: Great Possession 火天大有

The pattern of time: When light falls on what you already have, abundance is not having more—it is knowing what is worth sharing

If you chose the picture of cleaning, decorating, preparing for a gathering, or asking whether you already have enough, the theme most likely resonating with you this week is Great Possession.

Great Possession is fire above heaven. The sun is high, illuminating everything, including what you already hold: your time, your abilities, your relationships, your home, your income, your experience, and even the parts of your life you have become too used to notice. Great Possession is not “the more you have, the better.” It is what becomes visible when the light is strong enough: what is worth keeping, what can be shared, and what you no longer need to carry.

Around Diwali, many households clean, light lamps, prepare sweets, visit family and friends, and talk about income, gifts, spending, and plans for the year ahead. On the surface, these customs are about abundance. Underneath, they are about seeing: seeing the home, seeing the relationships, seeing your capacity to care for others, and seeing your own need to be cared for. Great Possession reminds you that abundance is not only a number in an account. It is also whether you have time to eat a meal, someone to talk to, and a place you are willing to return to.

But light also reveals shadow. During festival season, comparison becomes especially easy: someone else’s home looks more beautiful, someone else’s gift costs more, someone else’s family seems warmer, someone else’s year looks more successful. Great Possession does not ask you to prove that you are doing well by spending more. It asks you to distinguish: am I celebrating what I have, or trying to fill a feeling of “I am not enough”? If you chose A, the practice this week is to move abundance away from display and back into real use.

Great Possession also asks you to notice distribution. Your resources are finite—time, money, attention, energy. You can be generous with your family and still keep something for yourself. You can host a gathering and decline one that exceeds your budget. You can share the results of your work and still keep a boundary around what you need. True abundance is not giving everything away. It is letting resources flow toward what genuinely matters.

If you have just finished a project, received an income, moved into a new home, or finally become able to care for yourself and others, Great Possession may be saying: acknowledge that you have arrived here. Acknowledgment is not arrogance. It simply lets you see the light you already carry before you ask for more.

If you want to see where Great Possession sits in the wider sequence, read the sixty-four hexagrams and their textures of time.

ZenZen’s advice for the week

Choose one evening and write down what you already possess: a skill, a relationship, a corner of your home that makes you feel safe, something you recently completed. Do not write only “money” or “achievements.” Include the things that are hard to measure but genuinely support you.

Then do one small thing that puts this abundance to use rather than on display. Cook a simple meal for someone you love. Give away something you no longer need. Send a sincere message to a friend you have not spoken to in a while. Or set aside a stretch of time that belongs to no one else.

If festival spending, gifts, or family gatherings are creating pressure, set a ceiling first. Make three columns: “must spend,” “willing to spend,” and “can skip.” Take “everyone else is doing it” out of the decision. Great Possession is not about becoming stingy. It is about knowing what you can genuinely offer without abandoning yourself.

Option B: Darkening of the Light 地火明夷

The pattern of time: When the light is hidden in the earth, memory does not pull you backward—it lets you carry it forward

If you chose the picture of someone who has left, a period of your past, or a family story, the theme most likely resonating with you this week is Darkening of the Light.

Darkening of the Light is earth above fire. The light is hidden in the ground. It cannot be seen on the surface, but it is still burning underneath. The hexagram is often associated with hardship, darkness, or a time when the light is wounded. But it does not say that the light has disappeared. It says that the light has changed the way it exists. In the same way, after someone leaves, their voice, habits, and words can remain in the people who are still here.

Día de Muertos, on November 1 and 2, makes “remembering” visible: photographs, marigolds, candles, food, music, and a person willing to sit with the memory. It is not an attempt to turn death into a party, and it does not demand that you let go quickly. It simply acknowledges that the dead still participate in the lives of the living, and that memory deserves a place to rest.

This week, you may suddenly think of someone you have not thought about in a long time, or a goodbye that never felt complete. You may pause while sorting through old belongings. A smell, a song, or a dish may bring the past back into the room. Darkening of the Light reminds you that you do not have to explain these feelings right away, and you do not have to “move on” on command. Some memories do not need to be solved. They need to be allowed.

But Darkening of the Light also has boundaries. You can miss someone without putting your present life on hold. You can keep a photograph or a habit without returning to the most painful page every night. You can carry part of a family’s memory without digesting everyone else’s grief for them. The light is hidden in the earth, but you are not required to live underground. In time, the light will come back in another form.

If you chose B, you do not have to force yourself to be positive this week. You can be quieter. You can skip one loud gathering. You can allow yourself a little longing while others are celebrating. Admitting “I still miss this” is already a form of honest light.

If you want to understand how hexagrams, lines, and changing lines describe this state of “light hidden but still present,” read the introduction to hexagrams and lines.

ZenZen’s advice for the week

Create a small place for the person or period you are missing: a photograph, a candle, a dish they loved, a letter you do not send, or a quiet stretch of time that belongs only to you. The ritual does not need to be elaborate. What matters is that you stop and acknowledge that this memory still matters.

If you want to do this with family, ask a specific question: “What did you love most about them?” Let the story emerge through details rather than through the instruction to “let go.” If there are parts of the family story that no one wants to open, respect the silence too. Not every memory has to be opened at the same time.

Set a gentle boundary around your grief. You can remember without scrolling through old messages late at night. You can keep a keepsake without turning your room into a museum you cannot breathe in. You can cry, and you can also eat a meal and sleep afterward. If grief is persistently affecting sleep, work, or daily life, seeking professional support is not weakness. It is care.

Option C: Return 地雷复

The pattern of time: When the clocks turn back and the nights grow longer, return is not repeating the past—it is finding your rhythm again

If you chose the picture of a disrupted rhythm, earlier darkness, or a fire inside you that wants release, the theme most likely resonating with you this week is Return.

Return is earth above thunder. Thunder moves within the earth; one yang line returns at the bottom. The surface is still cold, but a new force is already turning underneath. Return speaks of coming back, recovering, and beginning again—but it does not mean “go back to the past,” and it does not mean “tear everything down and start over.” It is more like turning the clock back one hour: time steps backward, not so you can repeat the old hour, but so you can rearrange the rhythm that comes next.

On November 1, North America ended daylight saving time and turned its clocks back an hour; Europe had already done so a week earlier. The earlier darkness can affect the body’s rhythm, sleep, mood, and concentration. On November 5, Bonfire Night makes release visible through fire, smoke, and crowds: some old feelings need an outlet, some old stories need to be burned, and some boundaries need to be redrawn in the middle of celebration.

Return reminds you that coming back can begin very small. It does not require waking at five in the morning, exercising for an hour every day, and changing your entire life by Monday. It can be going to bed twenty minutes earlier tonight, stepping outside for a little natural light tomorrow morning, shortening the time you spend on your phone before sleep, or protecting a blank space on the weekend. The power of one returning yang line is small, but it is enough to start a new cycle.

But Return also has a shadow. You may mistake “return” for going back to a relationship that no longer fits, a job that has already drained you, or a familiar way of punishing yourself. You may also decide that one missed day means “I failed again.” Return is not about repeating an old pattern. It is about returning to the direction that actually fits you. If the old road no longer leads where you want to go, “coming back” can mean coming back to your own judgment, not back to the old person or the old story.

If you chose C, you do not have to force your life back into “optimal” this week. First acknowledge: my rhythm really has been disrupted. Then choose one smallest adjustment and let your body feel a little stability. Light does not come on all at once. It returns a little earlier, a little more steadily, until it is back in the room with you.

ZenZen’s advice for the week

Choose one habit that most affects your sleep or mood and make a “small return”: go to bed twenty to thirty minutes earlier tonight; get ten minutes of natural light after waking; reduce caffeine after the afternoon; put your phone out of reach before sleep. Do not change five things at once. Choose one and do it for three days.

If there is a fire inside you, and you want to release an old cycle, write it down: “I am stopping ______ because it keeps draining ______.” Then give it a concrete boundary: not replying to a certain person late at night, not accepting requests beyond your capacity, not checking a conversation that has already ended. A bonfire can illuminate, but it can also burn. Release needs boundaries.

Give yourself a small ritual of return: clear one drawer, take a different route home, buy a bunch of flowers, or mark a blank weekend on the calendar. The power of Return is not in grand gestures; it is in “I am willing to come back one more time.” If seasonal low mood, sleep problems, or anxiety continue to affect your life, professional support is also a form of return. Coming back to your rhythm does not mean carrying everything alone.

Questions to carry through the week

Whichever hexagram you chose, consider carrying these questions through the week:

• What do I truly want to light this week: a relationship, a home, a goal, or myself?
• Am I celebrating, remembering, or releasing? Which of these three energies do I need most right now?
• If I stopped comparing, who would I give my light to—and how much would I keep for myself?

If you would like to understand how CyberZenZen accompanies you in using Meihua Yishu, you can read meet CyberZenZen.

This week, the world will light up in different ways. You do not have to attend every festival, and you do not have to explain every feeling. You can share when you feel abundant, remember when you need to, and come back a little at a time when your rhythm has been disrupted.

May you find your own light among the lamps of Diwali, the candles of Día de Muertos, the fires of Bonfire Night, and the hour that was turned back. It does not have to be bright. It only has to be enough to show you the next step.

Ready to look at the situation in front of you? Return to the Meihua Yishu reading homepage with a question that matters to you, and begin an exploration of your own.