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(Wilhelm discusses this dynamic order in his 37 commentaries)
Will read; thank you.
Do you have a Wilhelm book edition, Lisa?
The "here" link to wiki provides the bagua family trigram associations and several other associations with each trigram.
I want to add something to 44 as I've noticed a trend with the times I receive it.
I'll just give a couple of examples: About 12 years ago a friend of mine, female - bold that night but probably not ordinarily - saw a man enter the club she was in. He emanated a kind of power and the people he came with sort of bowed down to him reverentially. So she approached him and seductively proposed they go somewhere to be together. They whisked off in his limo and for weeks, were engaged in one of those dreamy affairs.
But things turned very dark. He wasn't a good person at all and for the next couple of years, he cheated in front of her, drugged her and generally abused her good graces so completely. She never really dated again and now lives in a small village, being kind to gentler people.
She was 44 that night.
A friend of mine wanted to come over for the holidays. I was cooking fish in the oven and received 44 with that line about a fish for one but not for a guest and laughed. She looks like the image that appears alongside the text for 44. She is bold and seductive. But also like the Cicada as has been referenced throughout this site. However, it, like it does the cicada no favours, does her none either. No one sticks around because she can't be trusted. The boldness of the approach means the males are always uncertain as to who or what she is and they inevitably leave because they never do figure it out.
In both these cases, these are 44 scenarios that are not at all good for the 44 female, with respect to how it can play out for the female. A lot of the missed romantic connection stories I read here are stories that sound like they began with 44. Maybe some began with maligned 1. Maybe 16. But mostly they read like the aftermath of a 44.
There's also something about the seduction element - that something immense will happen and however good it feels for a little while, it ultimately consumes you - if that consumption can somehow be made good, then great. But I think there's something annihilating about it - and it's probably led me to a slightly more puritanical view of dangerous liaisons - called dangerous for just this reason!
So though 44 represents any form of dangerously tempting and seductive situation - or at least, this is how I see it - it's also relevant to actually relate it directly to the seductive female because we're so conditioned, still, to associate her with the femme fatale - in that she might not get what she bargained for and the femme fatale is, as tradition, always discarded. And hence, on the end of a long running narrative, 'she' ends up on a forum, unsure why she receives no communication from her lover/ex-lover
My experience of 44 has been something sneaking up on me, so I can relate to the insect bite. It's as if the itch is sneaking up and if I scratch it, it's going to get worse.
But I think another parable comes to mind which has been closer to the truth for me. It's the story of the camel and the tent owner - do you guys remember it? - here it is. http://camelphotos.com/tales_nose.html
This has been my experience of 44 (I have been on both sides of the table) and not just for people, but for habits and tendencies as well.
There was a time when even though I was surrounded by a lot of people, I was feeling very lonely. I was in desperate need for human conversation, but - in hindsight - I was a bit like the Marrying Maiden who would throw herself at any situation that provided the potential for conversation.
It was a strange situation, the more I tried to talk to people, the more I felt I was repelling them. Every time it happened I would ask the Yi, and I remember getting 3 hexagrams consistently: 44, 4, and 54. I often got 44 when my desperation to interact with people was being interpreted as sneaking up to them. I have also received 44 when I felt someone was sneaking up on me. In both cases the 'sneaking up' was not sexual, just something unwanted.
44 - Invitation
One must not abuse hospitality.
Wilhelm explains that the yin line at the bottom represents a young woman seducing five men. That's really a sexist view of this hexagram since you can also view five men abusing the young woman by putting a lot of pressure on her.
She was laying in my bed and crying. I asked if she had been abused. That's where the dream ended.
I asked today "What do I need to change in my attitude towards money?" and received 44UC.
I intensely dislike receiving 44 But I *think* what it may be saying is that I need to separate my abhorrence of the money *system* which keeps us enslaved so, from money itself, which is really just a tool and which I believe is meant to flow, be a method of transaction, not something to hoard.
I am quite conscious of those things though but maybe the Yi is suggesting that I hold unconscious beliefs that money itself is evil, because I understand how evil the system is within which it operates.
But I'm not entirely sure I'm reading it right.
which I believe is meant to flow, be a method of transaction, not something to hoard.
Clarity,
Office 17622,
PO Box 6945,
London.
W1A 6US
United Kingdom
Phone/ Voicemail:
+44 (0)20 3287 3053 (UK)
+1 (561) 459-4758 (US).