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16's Oracle (translation from Hilary Barrett's book) -
"Enthusiasm.
Fruitful to set up feudal lords and mobilise the armies."
Maybe your add-on idea served as a "feudal lord" - something to help you - and now you feel you've mobilized (organized, set into motion) the "armies"?
Also, 16 can be about images and stories. Maybe the "story" makes more sense to you now, feels more real, like an "organized army" than something you're just imagining?
The "long mental battle" you describe, that you've overcome, actually sounds like hexagram 39, Limping, which is the nuclear hexagram of 16. You may already know what that is - the hexagram formed by stacking lines 2-3-4-3-4-5 of your received hexagram. It's like a seed, something contained inside. Hexagram 39 is a long slog uphill, on a path that becomes increasingly difficult if not impossible, and its point is that you need to (a) turn around and find a better route, and (b) get help.
Sounds like maybe the add-on idea served both those purposes.
hilary said:It sort-of sounds as though he already had all the 15 around his theory, but couldn't really believe it until he had the 16 for himself. I like what you said to him about the story seeming more real now. Since half the name of 16 is xiang , Image (as in that thing made of trigrams, also as in 'elephant'), you could also say the picture has become full colour and 3D. Someone turned the light on in the slide projector, if anyone knows what one of those is any more...
About 15-16... I have a half-articulated sense of 'parts and whole'... err...
You gather the evidence and it solidifies into a theory. People agree. All the little observations come together and constitute a whole. You have drawn a realistic black-and-white outline that corresponds to the data.
You have an Idea. You have a big shining technicolor picture. With this, you can mobilise armies: the small details will follow the big picture.
Also maybe sequence happened - maybe 'noble one completes it' = noble one develops the add-on theory?
I was watching Dragons' Den last night - I think the US equivalent is 'Shark Tank'? Optimistic entrepreneurs asking big cheeses for investment. This particular optimistic entrepreneur says he wants them to 'catch the vision'. (They don't, of course; they stick to the numbers and are not convinced.) OP seems to have just 'caught the vision' of his own idea, and to be a bit bemused by his own change of mind. Perhaps in his world, you're only supposed to believe or disbelieve things based on evidence?
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