How does the Yi help in an impossibly painful situation? It’s hard to describe – deep recognition, being recognised, a sense of reconnection. Dominique’s reading for this episode:
“What is the lesson that I must learn through the pain of losing my marriage and our future?”
And Yi’s answer: Dispersing – Hexagram 59, with no changing lines.
It’s a beautiful response – I hope you enjoy listening
Transcript, for Change Circle members
There are no easy solutions to such matters. The I Ching also can be very cryptic in its answers, but can be understood with effort. I certainly do not have all the answers to the meaning here, but it seems that hexagram fifty nine has an affinity with 45. Why? Because dispersing leads to gathering together. This is a very difficult hexagram for me, because the answers can be very different depending on what side of the aisle it is coming from regarding dispersing or coming together. Here I think one aspect of the answer is that, while not taking any of the pain away, tells us that in dispersion of the old group, the new is coming together. So, what a clever little joke to be played when it is said, the king approaches his temple, for the husband who left is going to what he considers to be his temple, but the wife that is being left behind goes to her temple. And she does this by accepting the dispersing of the relationship and moving on. The key here is the temple, because that is the divine decree, time to move to greener pastures, and leave, (disperse) the past. Once we do, (cross the great water) we find the place that is appropriate for us. Dispersing in order to gather together