Hello.
I have been a fan of the I Ching for many, many years but I have never really studied it, this is because I am intellectually challenged, I have the intellect of an infant of six months old. I did have a paperback of Wilhelm's translation but apart from very occasionally using it, I couldn't study it as it was too complex for my pigeon-sized brain. So I was happy to hear of Harriet's book as it seemed to offer another less intellectual approach, I received the book and was happy to see the layout of key questions, oracle, image and sequence, I was further enraptured by the sparsity of intellectual observation, I think Harriet is very intuitive and it comes through in her book, I love it, it's simple, like me.
I had a very serious question, the first I would ask with a book and three coins for many, many years, I have been too busy creating for the past 30 years to have a need to ask questions, my path was laid out clearly for me, I must create, and create I have, but my creative epic has taken me deep into the realms of my unconscious mind, what in mythology is called the underworld, well I have travelled to the underworld and defeated terrible inner demons that were destroying my life, and the battle between me and my inner demons continues.
This was my question: My own inner darkness is preventing me from changing, what should I do?
I got hexagram 54 changing to 57 with changing lines at 1,2,3,4 & 6
The oracle of 54 was understood to me, it confirmed my position, the image also spoke to me, likewise the sequence, so far so good
The first line of 54 was very encouraging and spoke to me directly urging me onward, the rest of the changing lines were also at least partially understood with my intuition and gave further encouragements.
but line 6 made me stop, it reads:
The partners should bring full, living offerings for their marriage, here there is nothing but dead empty forms, neither partner is committed, both withhold what they have, with such a lack of belief or trust, there is no relationship, nothing to sustain the connection, and nowhere for it to go.
This is the last line, Harriet refers in her book to the notion that the first line of a hexagram may refer to events yet unfolding, and that later lines may refer to more distant events, I don't know, the preceding lines hold no terrors for me, but this last line seems pessimistic, does it to you?
All aspects of hexagram 57 got an intuitive nod, the observations made sense, confirmed my position and what I should do to effect change.
Thoughts on line 6 welcome.
Richard
I have been a fan of the I Ching for many, many years but I have never really studied it, this is because I am intellectually challenged, I have the intellect of an infant of six months old. I did have a paperback of Wilhelm's translation but apart from very occasionally using it, I couldn't study it as it was too complex for my pigeon-sized brain. So I was happy to hear of Harriet's book as it seemed to offer another less intellectual approach, I received the book and was happy to see the layout of key questions, oracle, image and sequence, I was further enraptured by the sparsity of intellectual observation, I think Harriet is very intuitive and it comes through in her book, I love it, it's simple, like me.
I had a very serious question, the first I would ask with a book and three coins for many, many years, I have been too busy creating for the past 30 years to have a need to ask questions, my path was laid out clearly for me, I must create, and create I have, but my creative epic has taken me deep into the realms of my unconscious mind, what in mythology is called the underworld, well I have travelled to the underworld and defeated terrible inner demons that were destroying my life, and the battle between me and my inner demons continues.
This was my question: My own inner darkness is preventing me from changing, what should I do?
I got hexagram 54 changing to 57 with changing lines at 1,2,3,4 & 6
The oracle of 54 was understood to me, it confirmed my position, the image also spoke to me, likewise the sequence, so far so good
The first line of 54 was very encouraging and spoke to me directly urging me onward, the rest of the changing lines were also at least partially understood with my intuition and gave further encouragements.
but line 6 made me stop, it reads:
The partners should bring full, living offerings for their marriage, here there is nothing but dead empty forms, neither partner is committed, both withhold what they have, with such a lack of belief or trust, there is no relationship, nothing to sustain the connection, and nowhere for it to go.
This is the last line, Harriet refers in her book to the notion that the first line of a hexagram may refer to events yet unfolding, and that later lines may refer to more distant events, I don't know, the preceding lines hold no terrors for me, but this last line seems pessimistic, does it to you?
All aspects of hexagram 57 got an intuitive nod, the observations made sense, confirmed my position and what I should do to effect change.
Thoughts on line 6 welcome.
Richard