Hex 28 changing to hex 4

[svenrus]

Concerning the proper diet for my old mother I got hex 28 with this four changing lines: nine at 3' 4' and 5' - six at top. Following Alfed Huang I should concentrate on the topmost of the unchanging lines, ie nine at the 2' line, but in this statement I found no advice or meaning whatsoever... (maybe I've missed a point ?)
Anyone got a clue ?

 

[chingching]

well 28 is the inverse of 27, the nourishment hex, or hex of the mouth. So 28 in this context gives me an image of a mouth filled up but which has no limits. Is she eating too much, having too big serving sizes? Maybe she just needs to learn her limits or correct proportion sizes. Or maybe three big meals a day doesn't suit her and perhaps five smaller meals would fit her digestion type, whatever that may be.

also the image of wood under lake, the marsh submerging the tree, I don't mean to sound rude but in the context of diet Its sounds like her body mass may be too much for her skeleton. Diet certainly helps this but some strengthening (pilates, weight training, swimming, stationary bike, cycling etc.) and cardio needs to be factored in somewhere too.

hex 4. She may need to learn all of this as though she were an infant learning it for the first time, which is the best way to undergo a change of anything, go right back to not knowing. I have said for years to my mum "surrender to not knowing mum".

The lines describe a journey, the last one where the big overstepping leads to a pitfall, but is without fault. Someone starts walking into a lake and doesn't know about the huge drop a metre in....and under they go. Applied in this context, whatever diet she hasbeen on she didn't realise how deep she would fall by continuing with it. No need to judge or blame her, its a good opportunity to recognise that she has a lot to learn and let the learning journey begin.

This is how this reading and your post has congealed in my mind, by no means am I saying that it is the way it truly is. Only you can tell us that.

 

[chingching]

also the trigrams of hex 4, water under mountain give me an image of fluid retention, calcium and magnesium and another salt I think starts with p, potassium maybe, maybe not though, anyway these helps fluid unretain itself, coupled with lower coffee intake (if thats a prob) or lowering anything that dehydrates.

 

[svenrus]

Thank You verý much. It's so good to have a clear light put on the situation. I was nearly drowning in the strange symbolism at the second changing line, but now it stands much clearer to me.