...as Hilary put it, over in the other thread, about Freedda's idea to cast a reading.
I wonder if we might already have one? (If Hilary doesn't mind having it dragged into this...? :hide:)
A few years ago, Hilary asked Yi, "How were you made?," and then kindly shared it with us (original blog article, discussion thread).
Yi's answer was 11 unchanging, Flow.
Thoughts?
I'll start with a couple:
I wonder if we might already have one? (If Hilary doesn't mind having it dragged into this...? :hide:)
A few years ago, Hilary asked Yi, "How were you made?," and then kindly shared it with us (original blog article, discussion thread).
Yi's answer was 11 unchanging, Flow.
Thoughts?
I'll start with a couple:
- 11's Pair is 12. The Pair text for 11, quoting Hilary's book, starts, "Heaven and Earth communicate: Flow. The Pair text for 12 starts, "Heaven and earth do not interact: Blocked."
So Yi was made when Heaven and Earth communicated and interacted, or was made out of such an interaction? Trigram heaven is below, with natural movement upwards. Trigram earth is above, naturally sinking downwards. It's unnatural for heaven to be below earth, but it does force them to communicate, as they struggle to work this out and regain their positions? Maybe? (Then when they do, hexagram 12 results, and there's no more interaction. They can ignore each other again, and nothing creative happens? Hence some names for 12: Blocked, Stagnation?)
The other "creative" hexagram is 1, Heaven / Creative Force. It's followed by its Pair - 2, Earth. But in those, heaven and earth seem independent, each doing their own thing? Heaven goes on creating unceasingly, regardless if anything's done with it, and maybe Earth will sit there, untiringly ready for whenever something's given it to do? (Er...???) But in 11, they combine and communicate. What other words...collaboration? Co-operation (learning how to co-operate?)? Synergy? Integration?
What might something like that (if it's not just silly drivel I've made up) tell us about Yi's origins? That at times it may have felt like jockeying everything into position? That inspiration from heaven, and an ability to manifest it, flowed together, symbiotically, at the same time? (We might ask, "Who or what does 'heaven' represent here, and who or what is 'earth'?") Other things?
- Hilary wrote somewhere else - I can't find it, so I hope I'm paraphrasing decently - that she did get from the reading that Yi was made by one person, not a committee. I wonder if the Shadow, 54, might help support that? How not to think about how Yi was made: by a group of powerless subordinates?