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Yes I mean the judgement which is sometimes referred to as the oracle, in this site's readings included.PS: If You by The hexagrams oracle meant the Judgement, the text..... (?) then take the above for what it is and forget it please.
The Image, in any case, doesn't necessarily describe what is happening, but what would be happening in an ideal situation.
Maybe that's the confusion. Mary didn't say imagery, she just said image. She didn't capitalize it, but in the context of what she wrote I thought she meant the Daxiang. Most of the time when people mention "the image" around here they mean the Daxiang.However, for me Mary's question was not so specific - more like 'I know what role the text plays in a reading, but what about the imagery?'
(underlining added by me)The hexagram's oracle seems to be the first thing to read when using the I Ching for divination- specially if we receive an unchanging one.
That said, what's the role of hexagram's image in divination?
18's Image:If I were to ask: tell me what I need to know to make my relationship better; and the response I got was 18.2 > 52
andIn the Yijing itself, there are actually two distinct versions of the junzi: the one in the original Zhouyi text, and the one in the Daxiang, the Image, who epitomises the best response to the energies of the component trigrams.
Almost all the Image texts feature this noble one, with just a handful of exceptions. I believe she’s a development, and perhaps a simplification, of the noble one in the Zhouyi.
I think those can be different things, though. The Image's author(s) took the trigrams and did one particular thing with them, drew one particular kind of conclusion: what behavior does this model for a noble one.What I tried to do in my example above is expand a bit on this idea of 'the gua as a fusion of trigrams' by expanding on the trigrams' meanings.
Yes, that will always be true, but it can still be helpful to talk about general concepts.But regardless of all that, the best thing might be to try using the Images (and maybe the imagery too) in your readings and see how useful it is for you.
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