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[dobro]

What's your take on this one?

"What do I need to know about using relating hexagrams in Yi interpretation?"

57.5

And, for those of you who use relating hexagrams in Yi interpretation, the picture is 57.5>18.

[trojan]

What's your take on this one?

"What do I need to know about using relating hexagrams in Yi interpretation?"

57.5

And, for those of you who use relating hexagrams in Yi interpretation, the picture is 57.5>18.

That there is no reason not to use it, there is no reason for it not to be advantageous to use it. It helps one gently penetrate the core of the meaning of the answer. In 3 days or so you will realise this, come to your senses and start using it again :D (just kidding)

[maremaria]

Maybe , the relating hexagram can help one to correct any misinterpretation made about the initial one?

[topal]

What's your take on this one?
"What do I need to know about using relating hexagrams in Yi interpretation?"
57.5
And, for those of you who use relating hexagrams in Yi interpretation, the picture is 57.5>18.



"5.Although early results are disappointing, things will go extremely well. A change now occurring is extremely important. Give it great thought before action. Once changes are made, monitor its progress carefully."

:D

Topal

[willowfox]

"What do I need to know about using relating hexagrams in Yi interpretation?"

57.5

The line says that if you persevere in using them, then expect good results and any regrets vanish and that it is extremely helpful. The second hex is not a beginning but and end, the final part of the answer.

Then Hex 18 is about correcting what has been spoilt in the past by leaving the second hex out.

[martin]

Perhaps. It could also be about correcting what has been spoilt by leaving it IN.
I think the answer says two things:
- be flexible, don't rigidly adhere to or blindly follow a system or what has become tradition.
- on the other hand, also don't switch to a new method too fast. Think about it first and test it.

Fortunately the second hex doesn't seem really relevant here (at least I think that line 5 of 57 says it all?)
If it was relevant you could get this:
If I use the second hex of this answer it says 'don't use it!' and if I don't use it it says 'use it!' :confused:

[dobro]

Well, I think 57.5, in itself and without reference to my question, illustrates how a single line can incorporate the meaning of the relating hex (but not the fan yao, in this case). So we find the 'before X three days, after X three days' in Hex 18 and it crops up almost verbatim in 57.5, meaning that there's a timeframe involved in the overall positive prognosis.

But if 18 comes into the answer to my question, it would be something like this: regarding using relating hexagrams in Yi intepretation - overall positive prognosis which involves a timeframe to both the interpretation and your arriving at the interpretation, and the relating hex acts to correct anything you might have got wrong using just the primary hex.

[meng]

I see line 5 as augmenting. It doesn't create, define or change Yi's answer, but it elaborates, alters, or massages the meaning.