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Hex 55.1,6 > 56
.....This leads to hex 56 the traveller, the loner, the person with either no or few friends..... .
absolute rubbish.
56 The Wanderer
Restrained Journeying, Loyalty
In a context of self-restraint we utilise setting a direction (an ideology).
"LU : travel, stay in a place other than your home; itinerant troops, temporary residents; visitor, guest, lodger. The ideogram: banner and people around it, loyal to a symbol rather than their temporary residence." ERANOS p596
Even from the generic position we have expansive bounding in a context of contractive bonding - a boundary focus ("ya with us or against us") operating in a context of sharing space with another/others.
You're out of line here, Chris, IMHO.
WF-
Chris addressed your posts, not your person... You have addressed his person. Name calling is childish, and as I have mentioned before, boring.
Rinda
Chris, if you object to the characterisation of 56 as having few friends, your quarrel isn't with Willowfox, but with the authors of the Zagua:
"He who has few friends: this is the Wanderer."
(Wilhelm's translation)
Actually, Chris does offer the occasional interpretation. They tend to be his best and most intelligible moments, even if he does typically follow up by telling people that the hexagram they received is no more relevant than any of the other 63.
.... based on your experiences, but if you read the post instigating this thread, the person involved is obviously new and so naive of such 'depth' packed into the verse. Willowfox paid no concern to that with the reply.Not just naughty Hilary, Willowfox and Wilhelm. Also naughty Zagua authors, who thought this a useful mnemonic to capture the gist of the hexagram. Not that this is an unusual position: many translators treat the Zagua as trivial/inadequate. I disagree - I think there's considerable depth behind those snappy little verses.
hilary said:56, in my experience, describes someone who is not at home where they find themselves. They often do have an objective or a loyalty elsewhere, but their prevailing emotional experience is of being outside the circuit. They can be less individualistic, and fit in; they can dance their own dance regardless, and get slaughtered. But there is no question of settling in, of influencing or being influenced by their environment.
hilary said:In Hexagram 55, you are the king at the centre. You have gathered all resources and allies around you, the signs are present for you, and your decision makes things happen. Then you move on out, following your own banner... and you find that the wider world is not your garrison. Its values and priorities are wholly different. In the wider scheme of things, you have no place to belong (Xugua) and few friends (Zagua).
Hex 56 the wandering sage, a loner with few or no real friends just acquaintances along his road of life. Another traveller. A tramp is a traveller, another loner who knows only separation from society,a stranger wherever he goes. The hermit.
In India there are thousands of wanderers who spend there entire lives moving around, loners who are on a different path from the rest of the world, all hex 56 people.
How about the gypsies, another type of traveller who shun and are shunned by mainstream society, who know only separation because as Wilhelm says they tend to be "gruff", "overbearing" (and very annoying).
The wanderer/traveller of hex 56 is pretty much a loner, a stranger who either tries to blend in or faces persecution, people tend to be very wary of strangers, as you may well know.
willowfox said:All you are doing with your XORing is to force the IC to give you an answer that you like not what was originally intended by its authors.
willowfox said:How come you never offer anybody the wisdom of your XORing and give them an interpretation perhaps even be bold enough to use your knowledge to make a prediction?
willowfox said:I know that all you can do is hide behind your XORing nonsense, you are like a snail hiding safely in your shell of XORing and coming out when the coast is clear to preach your fanatic views of the I Ching.
What do you really know?
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