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Does my exboyfriend have a girlfriend? because he spent the day with me and then I heard he had one
Your reading resulted in the following hexagrams:
54
Hexagram 54, the Marrying Maiden
Key Questions
How can you grow into this situation?
What does it mean to you to come second?
How sustainable is this?
Oracle
‘The marrying maiden. To set out to bring order: pitfall.
No direction is fruitful.’
A young girl, not yet a woman, comes home to her new husband’s house. A nobleman of old China would marry his ‘first wife’ with great ceremony. She would go to her new home accompanied by a group of female relatives who became ‘second wives’. These are the ‘marrying maidens’: they are present simply to make relationships easier and have no status of their own. As a marrying maiden, you have accepted a relationship where you come second. You are only here to play a supporting role; it would be disastrous to try to shape the situation to fit your own needs. You are too junior, not yet ready to exert influence; there is no point in your setting intentions or making plans. All you can do is to feel your way, adapt, and find your place, without originating any action or having any agenda of your own.
Image
‘Above the lake, there is thunder: the Marrying Maiden.
A noble one through ever-flowing endings
Knows what wears out.’
Sequence
The Marrying Maiden follows from Hexagram 53, Gradual Progress:
‘Making progress must mean a time to come home, and so the Marrying Maiden follows.’
Text excerpted from Hilary Barrett’s I Ching: walking your path, creating your future, © Hilary Barrett 2010.
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Your reading resulted in the following hexagrams:
54
Hexagram 54, the Marrying Maiden
Key Questions
How can you grow into this situation?
What does it mean to you to come second?
How sustainable is this?
Oracle
‘The marrying maiden. To set out to bring order: pitfall.
No direction is fruitful.’
A young girl, not yet a woman, comes home to her new husband’s house. A nobleman of old China would marry his ‘first wife’ with great ceremony. She would go to her new home accompanied by a group of female relatives who became ‘second wives’. These are the ‘marrying maidens’: they are present simply to make relationships easier and have no status of their own. As a marrying maiden, you have accepted a relationship where you come second. You are only here to play a supporting role; it would be disastrous to try to shape the situation to fit your own needs. You are too junior, not yet ready to exert influence; there is no point in your setting intentions or making plans. All you can do is to feel your way, adapt, and find your place, without originating any action or having any agenda of your own.
Image
‘Above the lake, there is thunder: the Marrying Maiden.
A noble one through ever-flowing endings
Knows what wears out.’
Sequence
The Marrying Maiden follows from Hexagram 53, Gradual Progress:
‘Making progress must mean a time to come home, and so the Marrying Maiden follows.’
Text excerpted from Hilary Barrett’s I Ching: walking your path, creating your future, © Hilary Barrett 2010.
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