These books are unlikely to show significant improvement in the short term. The core problem is a mismatch between the content and reader demand, and the platform's recommendation mechanism is not working in your favor. However, the hexagram shows this is not a dead end. Whether to persist depends on whether you can accept a pace of "slow burn plus course correction." If you keep grinding away on the original track, the returns will be out of proportion to the emotional toll.

The content itself is not weak, but current reader feedback and platform recommendations are both underwhelming

Background Analysis

The Primary Hexagram is Hexagram 30 — Li (The Clinging). Fire governs culture, documents, and dissemination, which corresponds precisely to the matter of "writing books." However, Li is a Six-Clash hexagram; Six-Clash signifies dispersion, speed, and instability, indicating that the traffic and reputation of these books are currently scattered and unable to build momentum. The Resulting Hexagram is Hexagram 21 — Shi He (Biting Through), which symbolizes biting through and obstruction, suggesting the content needs to "gnaw through hard bone" to break through, with a sense of snagging along the way. The Self Line holds Siblings Si (Fire); Siblings govern competition, financial drain, and divided effort, showing that running several books at once disperses your energy, competition among peers is fierce, and you are in a state of passive depletion.

The Yong Shen (Focus), Parents Mao (Wood), is strong with the Day Pillar's support but suppressed by the Month Branch — the content quality is decent yet hard to earn the platform's strong push

Yong Shen Analysis

The matter of writing takes the Parents line as the Yong Shen (Focus), representing the works, documents, and content. The Parents Mao (Wood) at the first line carries the Vermilion Bird; the Vermilion Bird governs documents, speech, and dissemination, corresponding exactly to writing. Parents Mao (Wood) is supported by the Day Branch Mao (Wood) in mutual assistance, making it prosperous, which shows your writing skills and the content itself are not lacking. But the Month Branch Shen (Metal) overcomes Mao (Wood); the Month Branch represents the broader environment, platform rules, and the prevailing fortune of the current period. The Month overcoming the Yong Shen means the platform's algorithms, reader tastes, or market trends are currently unfriendly to this type of content, and the work is easily buried.

The Other Line, Officer Hai (Water), moves and transforms into Offspring Chen (Earth); the Officer here can represent platform rules, review mechanisms, and the traffic gate. Hai (Water) is Xun Kong (Void); Void means powerless and falling through, indicating that the platform's recommendation mechanism is not giving any substantive tilt toward your current works, and may even be throttling your traffic. Hai (Water) moves and transforms into Chen (Earth), which turns back to overcome it; the Officer being overcome further shows that platform-side support is weakening. Offspring Chen (Earth) represents readers and the fan base; it turning back to overcome the Officer hints that reader feedback or performance data is in turn affecting the platform's recommendation weight for you, forming a negative cycle.

The Wealth line You (Metal) is still and under attack — short-term income is unlikely to improve, so income should not be the sole criterion for persisting

Yong Shen Analysis

Wealth You (Metal) carries the White Tiger; the White Tiger governs pressure and depletion. The Wealth line is still and unmoving, drained by the Month Branch Shen (Metal) and clashed by the Day Branch Mao (Wood). A Wealth line under clash is covertly activated, but covertly activated wealth tends to be small sums and scattered income, hard to scale. The White Tiger on the Wealth also warns that forcibly chasing monetization may bring extra pressure or disputes. Combined with the Self Line's Siblings Si (Fire) overcoming Wealth — Siblings governing divided and drained finances — this shows your current investment of time and energy is out of proportion to the returns, and persisting with updates may even affect other sources of income.

Timing forecast: a turning point may come after the eighth lunar month, but the content direction must be adjusted first

Timing Forecast

Officer Hai (Water) is Xun Kong (Void); it emerges from Void on Xu or Hai days, or in the Xu or Hai month. The current month is Shen; the next Hai month is the tenth lunar month, corresponding to around mid-November on the solar calendar. But the nearer turning point is the Xu month, that is, the ninth lunar month, around early October on the solar calendar, because Xu (Earth) can clash open Chen (Earth)'s backward control over the Officer, and Xu is also the Fire Repository, able to gather the scattered Fire of the Li hexagram so that traffic gains some cohesion. However, this turning point does not arrive automatically — it requires you to first make adjustments in content or update strategy; otherwise, emerging from Void will only be a brief fluctuation.

Action Recommendations

• Pause the pace of running multiple books simultaneously; concentrate your energy on pushing the one with relatively the best data, reducing the drawback of the Siblings line's divided effort.
• Make a slight adjustment in content direction before the ninth lunar month, drawing on the pain points that repeatedly appear in reader feedback, and avoid continuing to grind away on the original approach.
• Push back your monetization expectations; prioritize accumulating readers and reputation for now, and avoid decisions that harm the quality of your work out of anxiety over short-term income.