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When all the lines are nines, it means:
There appears a flight of dragons without heads.
Good fortune.
Just watched a Chinese movie about Confucius. At some point in the movie, he mentions a favorable divination that he calls "beheaded dragon".
What divination tool is he referring to?
The Devil is likened to a dragon because he is the worst of all serpents. As the dragon makes the air shine, so the Devil makes himself appear as the angel of light to deceive the foolish. The crest of the dragon represents the Devil crowned with pride. As the dragon's strength is not in its teeth but in its tail, the Devil, deprived of his strength, deceives with lies. The way in which the dragon attacks elephants represents the way the Devil attacks people, lying in wait along their path to heaven, wrapping them in his coils, and suffocating them with sin. Said of Draco, the greatest of all serpents on earth.
The dragon is beheaded when all line of hexagram 1 are changing. I suspect this refers to the sacrifice in which the top of the head was cut off to release the spirit inside. With all lines changing hexagram 1 changes to hexagram 2. The dragon force is at maximum power. Heaven is brought to Earth.
For modern use, as I can imagine it may have been traditionally, a headless dragon is a force with no direction, vision or mind.
Just watched a Chinese movie about Confucius. At some point in the movie, he mentions a favorable divination that he calls "beheaded dragon".
What divination tool is he referring to?
Not buying it.
The word Shou3 is polysemous - it has two distinct meanings in the Zhouyi - head and leader. Yong Jiu - See a group of dragons without a leader
I think that the headless dragon, at least with regard to the Yi, comes from a misunderstanding of the text, but it should be noted that it's been misunderstood by the Chinese as well.
BTW, it isn't mentioned anywhere in the Yijing that this text is what you get for rolling the all-nine Yahtzee.
I think it is both right. The dragon without a head being a metaphor for a leader missing.Not buying it.
The word Shou3 is polysemous - it has two distinct meanings in the Zhouyi - head and leader. Yong Jiu - See a group of dragons without a leader
I think that the headless dragon, at least with regard to the Yi, comes from a misunderstanding of the text, but it should be noted that it's been misunderstood by the Chinese as well.
BTW, it isn't mentioned anywhere in the Yijing that this text is what you get for rolling the all-nine Yahtzee.
Not me swift - someone who reported it. I just happened to sit here, heard the ring of a report. So...
He didn't have any obligation to.Not buying it.
Except in my Wilhelm/Baynes, which has the text for 1.7 and 2.7 right after 1.6 and 2.6.BTW, it isn't mentioned anywhere in the Yijing that this text is what you get for rolling the all-nine Yahtzee.
He didn't have any obligation to.
Except in my Wilhelm/Baynes, which has the text for 1.7 and 2.7 right after 1.6 and 2.6.
Just saying.
Clarity,
Office 17622,
PO Box 6945,
London.
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United Kingdom
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+44 (0)20 3287 3053 (UK)
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