I love reading new commentaries on hexagrams – even when the author is unaware even of the existence of the hexagram his work illuminates. This time the hexagram is 46: Pushing Upward, a figure of aspiration and steady, step-by-step progress towards a goal. The article is by Norman Barlow, and entitled ‘How to Discover your… Continue Reading
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Tag Archives: 46
Yi makes a difference
About a month ago, I turned to Yi in complete frustration. I’d been listening to podcasts from Steve and Erin Pavlina, both talking about how enthusiastically they leapt out of bed in the early morning, eager to get to their work, because they knew their purpose in life. And I thought – this is well… Continue Reading
Future hexagrams
Another question from Nancy: “What have you discovered about the validity of the I Ching’s ‘future’ hexagram anwers? I have read that it gives you a potential answers to the future and is not meant to predict the future. In most cases, I have not found the ‘future’ hexagrams to come true.” Nancy, you’re not… Continue Reading
Pushing Upward, but where to?
The week before last, I was itching to get started on something, and Yi told me to ‘strip away’ and to have no direction to go. And I realised that I could go anywhere. Then last week, with far more ideas and possibilities in mind than I’d dreamt possible, Yi told me to contain myself… Continue Reading
New information on Hexagram 46
The ‘sheng’ sacrifice at Qi Shan Harmen’s back! And as always, his research provides information you really have to consider in readings. This time he’s exploring sheng, Hexagram 46. The core divinatory meaning of sheng is (I think) to put in the effort to climb step by step towards a goal. It means ‘pushing upward’… Continue Reading
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