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An earthquake? A coup de foudre, literal or figurative? An illness? An accident?
"In it's static form the time of SHOCKING is at hand. The only thing predictable about what is coming is it's SHOCKING unpredictability. The double influence of the two active component trigrams, CHEN, movement, causes violent and repeated arousing. Examine yourself to see if you have in your heart an acceptance of the sudden forces of the cosmos. Only with this attitude can you behave correctly. In regard to the object of your inquiry, you may experience many such shocks, which will continue until you alter your intentions completely."
A coup de foudre.. had to look that up. I like that expression to describe 51. That seems to go along with the idea that 51 is not always about a scare or accident. Instead 51 can be about a new awareness. An out of the blue understanding!
I like to think about shock as a way to showcase the way that awareness looks like - when we feel shocked and our eyes open up and ears are at attention.
My experiences with 51 uc have been, without exception, about inner arousal, excitement...or fear from whatever cause. I've not known one occasion where 51uc meant some great outer shock. I wonder if this is one of those badly named hexagrams that misleads just by the name. I'd want to call it 'arousal'.
My most recent experience of it was in a reading for someone else. She had been told she could have a heart problem and was going to have some tests. She felt shocked by this and apprehensive. She asked Yi to what extent this heart problem would mean she had to change the way she lived. (she already lived a very healthy life). She got 51uc. I stuck my neck out and told her there likely wouldn't be any great changes necessary because so often 51uc comes up for something that is experienced purely internally, in our emotions, it's contained within us, there is not necessarily anything externally noticeable happening. It turned out that after the tests she was told there was nothing wrong with her heart. We both laughed heartily as I had been through the same process and we compared the type thoughts we'd had that were so funny in retrospect..and of course there is the laughter in 51.
For me it's come up when there's a lot of emotional arousal connected to the question though nothing external may be observable. I think 51 is a highly emotional hexagram, the lines showing how the emotional shock waves reverberate...or don't. I'd say 51uc, can among other states, describe the excitement of love and infatuation and so on. (I wonder if Weaver's heart strings were plucked that day ?)
The niece had (drunkenly) ripped off her pants and undergarments, threw them in the middle of the floor,
And fell asleep on her knees and forehead with her large bare bottom upturned and shouting, "Hello world!"
Here was me: As i quickly strode out of my room into the surprising scene, i spun like a dancer or one doing a military pivot and made haste back into my room
'THE IMAGE
Thunder repeated: the image of SHOCK.
Thus in fear and trembling
The superior man sets his life in order
And examines himself'
Basically someone was saying our own human security software, that is our fight/flight response etc, has not been updated for XXXX years...
'Despite her security software kicking in the woman arises from the couch and completes her tasks'
although the threat can be just as severe from an email as a lion,
Well...as I said, I do see the point, but I also beg to differ. Our problems have just changed, not gone away - very rarely is anyone nowadays eaten by a bear, but I think there are modern-day counterparts.
Struck me....Aha...pun intended.
Yes...no one has said our problems have gone away
I was talking about the physical fight/flight response to stress/shock. The point was the modern day counterparts rarely require us to get ready for full on physical fight or flight. We won't need to run from an email...so our hearts need not beat faster but they do anyway. We do not need to empty our bowels to make ourselves lighter to run from an email so that urge to go to the toilet when shocked is generally useless to us....but once it had an actual purpose. That is in our evolutionary past it aided us in fleeing from predators. http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2012/12/04/whats-the-purpose-of-the-fight-or-flight-response/ Our bodies need not physically react how they do to deal with many issues that arouse or trigger our 'security software' ...those physical reactions are not needed if we aren't going to have to run or fight but we have them anyway....and they can get in the way when trying to keep the chalice steady.
unless it's actually black cotton afterall.
kind of like that dead still moment before lightening strikes or the tornado hits.
Clarity,
Office 17622,
PO Box 6945,
London.
W1A 6US
United Kingdom
Phone/ Voicemail:
+44 (0)20 3287 3053 (UK)
+1 (561) 459-4758 (US).