Hi:
I've been hoping to have a loving partnership, but fear that I'm stagnating in some alternative state that doesn't permit intimacy. I asked the I Ching: What can I do to become ready for a new relationship and I got 30.4 becoming 22.
Hexagram 30, Clarity
Oracle
'Clarity. Constancy bears fruit.
Creating success.
Raising female cattle is good fortune.'
The ancient Chinese character for Clarity shows a flying bird, and a net to capture it. Birds are messengers; this one represents flashes of insight, the way things can light up and shine out clearly. We weave a net of concepts to grasp the message and hold its meaning in awareness. This is not passive seeing, but a meeting of outer and inner light.
Seeing the truth and holding to it with constancy bears fruit. Then the moment of insight can become lasting awareness, so that we enter into creative communication with the signs and messages around us, and truly see other people.
Just as a bright light needs fuel, such a level of attention and understanding demands a great deal of energy. Female cattle represent the reserves of strength that sustain awareness, along with a quiet willingness for that strength to be used and guided. They would be the support of an old farming culture, providing both food and power so that the people could develop a higher culture and a better understanding of their world.
So take care of your cattle, and build up your reserves. As well as paying attention to what you see, nurture your capacity to see; cultivate the part of you that shelters and nourishes new insight.
Image
'Doubled light gives rise to Clarity.
Great People with continuous light illuminate the four regions.'
Changing Lines
Line 4
'Sudden, it comes,
Burns,
Dies,
Thrown out.'
Hexagram 22, Beauty
I have trouble understanding Hex 30. i always think it indicates communication, such as telephone calls. Sometimes I thnk it refers to insight. So I wonder if in this case it refers to some telephone call that I may have received which wnet no where.
Line 4
'Sudden, it comes,
Burns,
Dies,
Thrown out.'
For me this line is one of the worse the Oracle can give you. Something that comes but which then burns out? Seems to indicate loss and uselessness.
As for 22? Does this mean that I should spruce up my appearance? Start getting facials and having my hair done? or is an indication of courtship? I mention these two areas because for me 22 usually refers either to personal appearance or courtship. There's probably much more but i dont see it personally. That's all I get from this reading. I wonder if there is anyone out there who has had a concrete experience with 30 that might be relevant and/or illuminating in this case. Thanks in advance.
I've been hoping to have a loving partnership, but fear that I'm stagnating in some alternative state that doesn't permit intimacy. I asked the I Ching: What can I do to become ready for a new relationship and I got 30.4 becoming 22.
Hexagram 30, Clarity
Oracle
'Clarity. Constancy bears fruit.
Creating success.
Raising female cattle is good fortune.'
The ancient Chinese character for Clarity shows a flying bird, and a net to capture it. Birds are messengers; this one represents flashes of insight, the way things can light up and shine out clearly. We weave a net of concepts to grasp the message and hold its meaning in awareness. This is not passive seeing, but a meeting of outer and inner light.
Seeing the truth and holding to it with constancy bears fruit. Then the moment of insight can become lasting awareness, so that we enter into creative communication with the signs and messages around us, and truly see other people.
Just as a bright light needs fuel, such a level of attention and understanding demands a great deal of energy. Female cattle represent the reserves of strength that sustain awareness, along with a quiet willingness for that strength to be used and guided. They would be the support of an old farming culture, providing both food and power so that the people could develop a higher culture and a better understanding of their world.
So take care of your cattle, and build up your reserves. As well as paying attention to what you see, nurture your capacity to see; cultivate the part of you that shelters and nourishes new insight.
Image
'Doubled light gives rise to Clarity.
Great People with continuous light illuminate the four regions.'
Changing Lines
Line 4
'Sudden, it comes,
Burns,
Dies,
Thrown out.'
Hexagram 22, Beauty
I have trouble understanding Hex 30. i always think it indicates communication, such as telephone calls. Sometimes I thnk it refers to insight. So I wonder if in this case it refers to some telephone call that I may have received which wnet no where.
Line 4
'Sudden, it comes,
Burns,
Dies,
Thrown out.'
For me this line is one of the worse the Oracle can give you. Something that comes but which then burns out? Seems to indicate loss and uselessness.
As for 22? Does this mean that I should spruce up my appearance? Start getting facials and having my hair done? or is an indication of courtship? I mention these two areas because for me 22 usually refers either to personal appearance or courtship. There's probably much more but i dont see it personally. That's all I get from this reading. I wonder if there is anyone out there who has had a concrete experience with 30 that might be relevant and/or illuminating in this case. Thanks in advance.