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London.
W1A 6US
United Kingdom
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I am in the kitchen in my childhood home trying to prepare a meal.....which includes chips ...anyway I cannot get on with this because the light bulb keeps blowing, .... they keep going out. Somehow the energy of these light bulbs is needed to cook the food, the oven depends on the lightbulbs. My father has to keep going out to buy new light bulbs. It's ridiculous,..how can we get anywhere when each light bulb only lasts a short while. At some point when he has gone out to get yet another light bulb I go into the front room where my sister is relaxing watching TV or something and she makes it clear she thinks my angst is silly. She doesn't realise that we cannot get anywhere because he has to keep going out for bulbs. She just thinks I am making a big fuss over making a meal, "can't you even cook a meal without all this fuss !"
He brings the next light bulb and we start to think actually we can't go on like this, something is wrong, this shouldn't be happening and he looks at the light bulb that can never stay on long enough to cook a meal, looks at it to maybe fix it. My mum is out so it's my job to get the meal cooked. Eventually a woman comes and shows us there is a panel in the wall and when she removes it, opens it, there is burning there a little 'pilot light', like a candle, burning steadily, it never goes out. We could have cooked with that power, we didn't need all those light bulbs.
I don't know who she is. She looks like a female engineer in dark blue overalls. I am very relieved the light is always there as it is very tiring for him always to go out to get new lightbulbs.
End of Dream
In real life my dad was a gas engineer and pilot lights were much in his realm of expertise.
I asked Yi about the meaning of this dream and got 55 unchanging. I thought that was great ! There is enough light to see to cook by, there is no need to go out buying more light bulbs. That little light the woman showed us never goes out, always burns steady. Its Enough. What a relief !
Traveller through time and space
55 - Act at the moment itself, next second it is gone
56 - Act according to the field where you are
Abundance forms a pair with hexagram 56, Travelling:
'Abundance has many causes: few connections for the Traveller.'
These show two ways of being at the centre, responsible for making the decisions. The Traveller is on his own; but here, you are at the centre of an abundance of resources, plans and allies, feeling the weight of everything that led up to this point.
LI, attachment in the lower trigram, arouses CHEN, shock in the upper. Without changing lines ZENITH gives rise to the idea of over abundance. It is time to be discriminating toward the profusion that surrounds you. Do not allow that which you have desired to possess you. In order to make progress you must make judgements about what is good for your development and reform or eradicate your excessive attachments.
p.s. He did enjoy just hanging out in his creation and the one project that did get completed was building a beautiful cradle for his newborn grandson - which will now be in the generations. Reading that line "Be not sad" now makes me feel good - like he really did get to achieve and experience the completion of a life goal before 56. Traveling on.
...it's a hex that somehow makes you put the past behind and focus on the future...
I wailed to Yi, "[Name of cat] won't eat the food with the [name of medicine] in it!!"
This is the sort of surfeit of good fortune that raises the comment "Be careful what you wish for." This Gua depicts the (usually short) period of time spent at the Zenith of prosperity, amidst an excess of busyness and confusion, and just before things start settling down again. Micromanagement is unthinkable - one barely has time for all of the major Executive Decisions that need to be made. The images of polarized light used in the lines refer to the sort of tunnel vision that is required. There are hopes of getting out of here, or hopes that this will pass soon, but the Sovereign in the Tuan has no choice: this is his element. For those who have taken entheogens, this time may be likened to the very peak of the experience, just before the world begins to resolve again.
I wouldn't like to try to narrow down the 55uc experience too much. If I received it in regard to a smaller mundane matter I'd generally feel that there was already enough of whatever is required to go ahead. The sun is as bright as it will ever get at noon. Things are ready. It's time to act, time to express.
Clarity,
Office 17622,
PO Box 6945,
London.
W1A 6US
United Kingdom
Phone/ Voicemail:
+44 (0)20 3287 3053 (UK)
+1 (561) 459-4758 (US).