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‘Jian [Hexagram 39] comes next. Jian is trouble. Trouble cannot continue forever, therefore
Jie comes next. Jie is loosing. Loosing is bound to involve loss, therefore Sun comes next.’
Richard Rutt, Zhouyi
‘Limping. Fruitful in the west and south,
Not fruitful in the east and north.
Fruitful to see great people.
Constancy, good fortune.’
Oracle of Hexagram 39
‘Release. The west and south are fruitful.
With no place to go,
To turn round and come back is good fortune.
With a direction to go,
Daybreak, good fortune.’
Oracle of Hexagram 40
‘People in harmony in the wilds: creating success.
Fruitful to cross the great river.
A noble one’s constancy bears fruit.’
Oracle of Hexagram 13
‘Being Without Entanglement, hence capable of Taming, and so Great Taming follows.’
‘Capable of seeing, hence there is a place for uniting, and so Biting Through follows. Biting Through means uniting.’
‘Things cannot carelessly unite and be completed, and so Beauty follows. Beauty means adorning.’
‘Young things cannot do without nourishment, and so Waiting follows. Waiting means the way of eating and drinking.’
‘For Radically Changing things, nothing equals the Vessel.’
‘Radical Change puts away the old; the Vessel grasps renewal.’
‘Things cannot end with flowing together, and so Blocked follows.’
Xugua, Hexagram 12
‘Seeking union naturally has occasion to tame things, and so Small Taming follows.’
Xugua, Hexagram 9
‘Things cannot end with excess, and so the Chasm follows. The Chasm means falling.’
‘Things cannot last long in the place where they settle, and so Retreat follows. Retreat means withdrawing.’
‘When the way of the home is exhausted, you naturally turn away, and so Opposing follows.’
‘Involved in brightening the appearance; this means success will be truly exhausted, and so Stripping Away follows.’
Xugua, Hexagram 23
‘The Way of the Well does not allow things not to Change Radically.’
Xugua, Hexagram 49
‘Injury on the outside naturally means turning back towards the home, and so People in the Home follows.’
Xugua, Hexagram 37
‘Turning away naturally means hardship, and so Limping follows.’
Xugua, Hexagram 39
‘Going past others naturally means crossing the river, and so Already Crossing follows.’
Xugua, Hexagram 63
I'm not sure what you mean here. Guesses: (a) Things people have written trying to figure out why the Sequence is in the order it's in, or proposing a new one. (b) Books like--- is it Field's, where people have done things like you did, noticing things?It doesn’t deal with the big patterns: that would take a book. (There are quite a few.
Just this morning in an audiobook I think I heard something like this talked about:But in other cases it’s not half so clear –
‘Things cannot last long in the place where they settle, and so Retreat follows. Retreat means withdrawing.’
Hexagram 32, Lasting, can’t last long? Strange – but true in a time of Retreat.
(Think Like a Rocket Scientist, by Ozan Varol, chapter 9.)The moment we pretend an activity is routine, is the moment we let our guard down and rest on our laurels.
It doesn’t deal with the big patterns: that would take a book. (There are quite a few...
People writing about the received sequence, and either noticing things, as you put it, or trying to describe a single rationale for the whole thing. You know I'm a huge fan of Scott Davis' 'noticing' book, The Classic of Change in Cultural Context. Beyond that, an incredibly kind person has given me a copy of Richard Cook's Classical Chinese Combinatorics, a 'single rationale' effort the size of an old-fashioned phone directory which is sadly wasted on me, and... hm, yes, what did I mean by 'quite a few'? The others I know of are online.I'm not sure what you mean here...
This makes good sense, yes! And you've looked at something Rosada often does and I don't nearly enough, namely the step from line 6 to line 1. More to think about. (Isn't there always?)Maybe in hexagram language (33 and 32), it could mean withdraw from time to time, in order to regroup and re-examine.
32.6: 'Shaking up lasting, pitfall.'
33.1: 'Retreating tail, danger. Do not use this to have a direction to go.'
32.6 - Go-itis? In both cases warnings had been made but not heeded.
33.1 - If you don't retreat voluntarily, eventually it'll catch up with you and pull you back anyway.
Or something - it can be tricky to apply these things very precisely, when there's no actual reading.
Hexagrams are handy that way, aren't they? But yes, I do see what you mean. Stories, landscapes, mathematical formulae, vessel casting, taotie patterns...Wonder if there's anything to be made of just how many things can be projected onto / seen in the sequence?
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