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And now I want the Star Trek I Ching. Maybe that could be our next project... or has it already been done?It was a big mistake for Wilhelm to name 11 "Peace"
A better name might be "Engage," with Picard's accent
Maybe equilibrium, but, more often than not, dynamic.
Yes, gardening's good, for 11. Though it also brings to mind the bindweed that showed up in the conservatory, having made its way under the concrete path and up through the foundations. Made me wonder exactly what I thought I was achieving, trying to eradicate the stuff.'Peace' never quite scratched that 11 itch for me either, although it's easy to see how that word became associated. There are so many great metaphors that can spring from 11, and I see that as being the primary point. Nowhere is that learned better than in a garden. Getting those holy hands into the dirt and mixing it up. Or seeing an enhancement in the production of something, as a result of something I did. The inspiration from heaven comes from below, or literally heaven inside the earth; so there's not the exuberance of 16, but the creative power can do some amazing things, with a little ingenuity and work from a human.
Though it also brings to mind the bindweed that showed up in the conservatory, having made its way under the concrete path and up through the foundations. Made me wonder exactly what I thought I was achieving, trying to eradicate the stuff.
This was the one that originally gave me the idea that unchanging hexagrams could be weird - and especially the ones with strong driving energy.
Examples...
The impression I get from all these is that 'small goes, great comes' means that your focus shifts from small issues to big ones.
- reading for the day: mother had a (non-fatal) heart attack.
- will there be war with Iraq? (shortly before there was)
- Also three emotionally fraught requests for predictions, where the outcome was a non-event. A lot of painful suspense, and then the problem/ drama not materialising after all.
Naah, T, I don't think that our ideas about hexagrams are that theoretical after a fair amount of working with Yi. From a point onwards, these ideas become a cluster of experiences, previous thoughts, feelings, our more personal 'sense' of what the hexagram stands for - that's the main reason, imo, why Brad's linguistic note makes so much sense; if it wasn't supported by our private meanings, it would just be another theoretical observation
I don't think that our ideas about hexagrams are that theoretical after a fair amount of working with Yi. From a point onwards, these ideas become a cluster of experiences, previous thoughts, feelings, our more personal 'sense' of what the hexagram stands for ...
I noticed while reading and writing in these threads on hex 11 unchanging and hex 12 unchanging how they are so enmeshed/intertwined it's quite easy to mistake one for the other as Graham did....and I'm finding in my own thoughts I now cannot think of one without thinking of the other.
I noticed while reading and writing in these threads on hex 11 unchanging and hex 12 unchanging how they are so enmeshed/intertwined it's quite easy to mistake one for the other as Graham did....and I'm finding in my own thoughts I now cannot think of one without thinking of the other. This has probably always been totally obvious on an intellectual level but I certainly haven't been so aware of it before.
I wonder if unchanging hexagrams are particulary reflective of/interactive with their pair when we perceive them directly via our own experiences.
not sure what you mean...I'm just speaking of my own perception that hex 11 makes more sense to me when I also am aware of hex 12 and vice versa....that's all. Oh and i suppose when we get in the midst of living through a hex 11 or hex 12 time we will clealry be aware of them both running through the situation....because actually neither of them makes much sense without the other. So when one is translating an answer into what happened to you you can see both ......it's only clearly delineated on paper, soon as those hexagrams get into the world they do their own thing and go 3d or even 4d
The underlined that followed gives the impression of trying to come up with a more general view of what happens with unchanging hexagrams, (or that's what it looks like to me, at least)
. . Actually I was thinking about this today, how it is a narrow road with these threads, right between exploration and shared readings - it's interesting to see how they might change the 'landscape' so to speak, or create discussions like the ones we've had here, about what is personal understanding and what common rule . .
(I didn't have any mean intentions btw by posting it, just pointing something out)
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