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A people of individuals (every road is unique)
37 - Individual differences are the building stones of a community
38 - Accept and value others as being different
People in the Home forms a pair with hexagram 38, Opposing:
'Opposing means outside. People in the home means inside.'
These two hexagrams describe a single landscape: every inside must have it's outside. Inside you find your fellows, those who share your vision. Outside are the foreigners, who see differently and do not belong in this home.
(from the 'I Ching Workbook')LI, clarity, in the lower trigram of human affairs brings illumination to the penetrating work of SUN in the upper realm. In it's static form FAMILY implies that you are the possessor of great clarity about your role. You are in fact, dependent upon this role for your sense of power and effectiveness in the world. As long as your behaviour is consonant with this, you will have no difficulties in regard to the object of your inquiry.
Trojan, would you like me to make that post a thread of its own, and maybe link it to this thread? Instead of taking up space here?
(I guess the next logical question would be WHY lost item answers are meaningless...I mean, why should they be any different from anything else, really. I've gotten perfectly helpful answers to other mundane everyday questions. But that's a different topic, too. Any interest in a thread about lost item questions, using this as one example? Particularly in hex 37 would be nice to have proper thread housekeeping, right?)
the two trigrams of 37 feel more like a dryer than a washer! (fire and wind)
I think I'd have taken 37uc to mean "in your house somewhere" (as opposed to in the car or on the walk or what have you), but perhaps you already knew that.
I get 37 with changing lines A LOT about career and money issues. I do work at home, so perhaps that's partly why -- also though I think it has to do with establishing and securing a home base, safe walls from which you can comfortably venture out. I agree with trojan that 37 rarely comes up for me in terms of relationship/feeling/human warmth -- more a matter of arranging and structuring and establishing.
I have 37uc exactly once in my journal, and it was just last week. I was anxious about an upcoming call with an editor to discuss revisions she wanted--what sort of self to present, how to act-- so I said "what if I focus on being open and fluid and don't get fixed on my own ideas" and got 37uc. I wasn't quite sure I understood, but Wing's comment that trojan quotes really works there: "In its static form FAMILY implies that you are the possessor of great clarity about your role. You are in fact, dependent upon this role for your sense of power and effectiveness in the world. As long as your behaviour is consonant with this, you will have no difficulties in regard to the object of your inquiry."
(The call did go very well.)
The foundation of a family is economic. Not blood-ties, not love, not sense of duty. All these things can only come to life because there is a foundation and so the family is a family. Love is not strong enough to keep them together. But the pig they raise together, the farm they run, the skills they all bring in.
the two trigrams of 37 feel more like a dryer than a washer! (fire and wind)
I think I'd have taken 37uc to mean "in your house somewhere" (as opposed to in the car or on the walk or what have you), but perhaps you already knew that.
Did you actually go to a text and read the actual words, and a commentary?
About location readings - -yes they are hard. Did you actually go to a text and read the actual words, and a commentary? Hilary is always reminding us to do that and it is amazing how helpful it is. That is I tend to think "37, oh yes, I know what that means" and not go actually read the text, where I might find something quite helpful, either in the text itself or a commentary.
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Such as Knot's deriving a dryer from heated air rising from the fire. I never have thought of that example, yet the trigrams do support the idea, therefore it's worth considering, to me.
I think I'd have taken 37uc to mean "in your house somewhere" (as opposed to in the car or on the walk or what have you), but perhaps you already knew that.
For example 37 says "harvest in a woman's constancy," which as hilary points out evokes hex 2. For me 2 SO OFTEN enacts that "at first confusion, then gains a master" idea--the sense that I need to hold up and wait to be guided. Which is how it worked out for you in this case. So maybe a triple meaning of: "it's in your house! right next to the dryer! oh just settle down and go about your housekeeping and all will soon be clear."
Trojan, if you're saying that Yi can be arbitrary and capricious in what it chooses and does not choose to help with - I think that a lot, and it does not sit well with me . I often think that what would be considered acceptable behavior from another human being ought to also be acceptable behavior from an oracle.
In this particular example of my lost keys, I am actually pretty satisfied with the interpretation that everyone's ideas, especially Knot's, have led to (thank you, everyone! ). It was helping me find the things by indicating the general direction of the washer and dryer, but also admonishing me to be more careful about where I absentmindedly drop things. It did all that with one hexagram. The fact that I didn't see "dryer" in 37uc was more because I haven't learned to pay attention to trigrams. Maybe now I will! But I can see that the message was there.
.(I don't think this has added much to our knowledge of 37uc, though, certainly not in proportion to its length, and I do apologize for that
Title of 37: 家人 family member. Family = a pig under a roof.
And not just in ancient China:
http://www.irishamericanmom.com/2012/03/21/the-irish-pig-a-k-a-the-gentleman-who-pays-the-rent/
no I did not mean Yi was arbitrary and capricious. I mean I see it as a higher source of understanding, that we access a higher source of understanding. As such it may not answer every single question we ask in terms of how we ask it. It is not a servant to do our bidding IMO.
Do you mean it's worth considering in my example? Well maybe...I think that was a terrific observation by Knot, and it is true that the dryer is right next to the washer. If I'd seen "dryer" in 37uc, and gone looking in that area, I probably would have found my things right away.
The only problem I have with that is as I said before - Yi has at least a couple ways to say "washer," pretty directly. 48 (The Well), 29 (which it had cleverly used before with me to indicate the Whirlpool brand). So...why would it have chosen the more circuitous route of indicating the washing machine area by saying "dryer"?
Was it maybe trying to say more than one thing with one hexagram? Indicating the general area, AND delivering the pointed message with 37uc ("good order; things in their proper places") that I shouldn't just drop things in ridiculous places?
That does make sense.... Could the "unchanging hexagram" lesson be that since we don't have moving lines and relating hexagrams to use as clues, things like trigrams (and maybe nuclear hexagrams, etc.) do become more important?
Clarity,
Office 17622,
PO Box 6945,
London.
W1A 6US
United Kingdom
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+44 (0)20 3287 3053 (UK)
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