Hexagram 57

[troubledwater]

Please anyone help with the interpretation!

My wife was diagnosed with a serious illness and I have to choose a long term therapist. I asked the I Ching "Please comment on the engagagement of Dr. So and So for the treatment of my wife".

Whilst the innitial Hexagram and the moving lines are clear to me. I have no ideal what the resulting Hexagram 57 mean. Please help!!!

[bradford_h]

It really means nothing without knowing how it got to 57. You can't just pull it out of context like that, unless you just got this hexagram with no changing lines.
If it was just this, I'd say to be sure of the diagnosis with a second opinion. This gua can sometimes recommend thinking twice, and not the same way each time.

[dobro]

Hex 57 talks about gently but persistently penetrating the foundations of a situation - 'getting to the bottom of it'.

But Brad's right - you need the primary hexagram to give the resulting hexagran meaning.

[troubledwater]

Thanks very much Bradford and Dobro.

Sorry, I forgot. The innitial Hexagram is 46 with moving line 5 and 6, resulting in Hex 57
Can you please give me your opinion?

Troubled Water

[yly2pg1]

(Hex46.5.6 -> Hex57)

After understanding the overall picture (in other thread), please take some time to understand
the changing line 6 (of Hex46). Line 6 means that thru-out the course of diagnosis, you and your wife
will go thru a period of darkness where you do not see where you heading. DO NOT STOP. Go thru it.
You will see lights in the end.

[bradford_h]

Hi Troubled Water-
I get the sense from 46.5,6 > 57 that the therapist your're looking at will take you partway there, but that road wont go all the way to health. Progress by steps for a while, but then something may change and the needs might start exceeding his abilities or he may continue on old assumptions when he should be changing his mind. I'd consider this only a useful first phase of treatment. Get started with the meds and start trying therapies and be looking their effects. Then look again later, revisit the whole thing and reassess, whether diagnosis, medications, treatment options. Something will want reassessment and this may be beyond his abilities. Don't tell him it's a trial either (52.5>53).

[troubledwater]

Many thanks Yly2pg1 and Bradford for your help.

A note about line 6: I use a combination of Richard Wilhehm and John Bloefield translation. The comment from John Bloefield reads "But the night ascend will lead to loss, not wealth". This particular therapist will cost about USD 250 per hour. About twice the rate of the other therapist.
So I took this line quite literally...

God help me!!

[bradford_h]

Glad someone's still reading Blofeld.
RE: xiao bu fu, lessening not gaining. This is in the Wings commentary. The person doing the climbing is losing or shedding unnecessary things, Stripping down to basics, lightening the load.