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1.6 So align with what already is? Don't get ahead of Yourself?
ARROGANT DRAGON REPENTS. It is time to fall back.
8.6 lost his head, but 64.6 only soaked it.
Trojan! You are absolutely correct, there is mention of dragons without heads!
When all the lines are nines, it means:
There appears a flight of dragons without heads.
Good fortune.
-Wilhelm.
I don't think I included that line when we were focusing on hexagram 1 in the Memorizing threads. I am going to go back and check. It certainly should be included before we move past 63.1! Breaking of wheels!
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Thinking the dragons of 1.6 APPEAR to be headless because they have their heads concealed. They have heads but their heads are in the clouds. Is this because now that they are all together they are heading off into The Clouds, a.k.a. Dreamland, a.k.a. The Unconscious, a.k.a. Hexagram 2 The Receptive?
a.k.a. : also known as.
-rosada
Not done yet...Not ready to be read..Gone to look up how to spell autonimous..Gosh, now that we are discussing this I just realized that I have always pictured 1.5 as the dragon joining a flock of dragons! And now you tell me dragons don't travel in flocks they travel alone. I think we're being introduced to a new truth here. I think the I Ching is telling us dragons DO travel in flocks but that each flock is so co-ordinated and each dragon is so autonimous what appears to be one dragon could actually be a flock in unison and what appears to be a a member of a flock can take off on his own flight any time he chooses.
I think this is an important idea because it has to do with thinking of our bodies being made up of individual cells, atoms even, and each one of these parts can live or die at anytime.
Or the simpler explanation that each individual moving line is seen through the symbolism of a single dragon at that stage. When all six lines are moving there would be six dragons all at once, so a flock of dragons; however such a special situation implies these many dragons would still function as a single unit, therefore no individual heads to express differing intentions or directions.
Overall, hex 1 is about Creative process that motivates and develops specifics. Six moving lines in hex 1 would highlight pure symbolic process to the max or Divine Creative Process in its most abstract essence. In the ancient world this was a difficult notion to express (cf. Ibn Gabirol's Fons Vitae or Living Fountain [of Divine Creation])
Frank
Over in Shared Readings on the Reading Sacred Books thread elvis has posted (post #31) a very interesting article, The Angels Page. Its a discussion on the difference between Spirit and Material. Seems like a good link from how the pure spirit of 1.1.2.3.4.5.6, The Big bang as meng calls it, leads to Space, hexagram 2.
"What is the difference between the material and the spiritual?.... the difference between spiritual and the
physical involves space. Physical space only exists in the physical world. In the spiritual, there is no space as we know it."
-Kaplan
And then he develops the idea further.
Wish I knew how to put The Angels Page link over here. Anyone have the computer savy to do that?
r
I know of just one person who has received 1.7. It was a situation where a powerful person gave no consideration to reasoning regarding a loved ones future physical well being. Beyond reason, beyond common sense, beyond compassion. All this person could do was accept it, h2.
Not sure i understand. Do you mean the powerful person ignored or over rode the needs and reality of the loved one, like refusing to accept their illness or something ?
Bordering on cruelty, not intended as cruelty but so self focused they are unable to see the loved ones needs at all ?
Then there's the Crusades.
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