No blame

[acornhill]

Hello,
I have seen this line "No blame" more than a few times. How am I suppose to interpret this? Is the meaning consistent throughout all the hexagrams? One I recently got was 10 moving lines 2 and 6 relating hexagram was 17. 17 is where "no blame" appears.
Thanks for your help. ( book helping with interpretations hasn't arrived yet...)

[gene]

Hi Acornhill

Without knowing what your original question was it is difficult to give a specific answer. However, H10 is about how we conduct ourselves. Line 2 indicates we travel alone if necessary, when the proper companions with the right moral character are not available to us. Line six tells us to look at our conduct and decide if it is working for us. Hexagram 17 as a relating hexagram tells us that we have or need something to follow, like a guiding light. If everything does not work out the way we think it should, if we have maintained proper conduct, morality, and ethics, and we still do not see all the favorable signs, it is fated and it is not our fault. Once fate has gone its way, then the favorable conditions karmically bestowed upon us will return.

Gene

[anita]

Welcome Gene!

May I also ask you a question. Your answers are really good enough to save in my I Ching file. I see that you interpret hexagram 17 as outcome -- the future. Is it the right way to interpret relating hexagrams? (I have drawn 17 too and pretty often when I ask about my relationship with my boyfriend.)I believe that relating hexagrams depict the future outcome of the question asked. What do you think?

Best for your Quest

Anita

[gene]

Anita

I think it is sometimes, and that is generally the consensus of the authors I have read. In my personal experience though, I have found very often that the relating hexagram is the basis for the situation, sometimes it is both. The only thing I can say is that there is a certain amount of intuition that goes into it that develops with time. However, when I am reading for myself, I find it much harder to utilize that intuition than I do when I see the hexagrams and lines cast for other people. In the reading in question, I kind of feel that it works both ways. The guiding star, or the ideal that the person is to follow, is the basis for the moral character that is described in hexagram 10. Again, however, the guiding light of #17 could be the outcome for a life that is lived honestly. Hopefully, this makes some sense.

Gene

[heylise]

No blame can also mean 'avoid faults'.
The character WU, no, is a man pushing away something. It is both: not and avoid, so it also indicates that faults can be avoided or the omen changed for the better.
And the charater JIU, fault, is a foot and a man. The foot is upside down: walk slowly or with difficulty. According to Wieger: with shackles.
WU JIU: act careful and think before you act, don't take risks. This harm is one you can avoid yourself - or bring about yourself.

Hope it helps some?
LiSe

[gene]

Thanks, LiSe

Yeah, that is helpful.

Gene

[gene]

Anita

I suspect, if you are getting hexagram 17 often, you probably look up to your boyfriend a lot, or perhaps he looks up to you. Do you get this as a relating hexagram usually? This hexagram would indicate a good friendship as well as a loving relationship.

Gene