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Take Hexagram 7 as the need to organize yourself, as an army needs to organize itself for a military campaign. Thus the answer to your question becomes to "organize against oppression."Will I be able to understand and calm the anger, fear, anxiety and judgment within me-to make myself whole? How?
reading:
primary: 47, with moving lines at 4 and 5.
secondary: 7
thoughts and problems:
47 makes perfect sense, and describes my current situation with typically sharp but sympathetic accuracy. the line readings also make complete sense to me.
But 7 is a bit . . . enigmatic.
But 7 is a bit . . . enigmatic. My wife points to the existence of a war within me, and the availability of resources to conduct that war, with the hexagram suggesting the need for kind but firm discipline
Alex
I don't know what others in the Reading Circle community think on this point, Alex, but my opinion is that it's not good for you to consult with your wife about your hexagrams. I know you want to share your interest in the I Ching with your wife, but as married people deeply pondering life's concerns, surely you can give each other the space to do so?
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Thinking further...and further wrinkling brow in bafflement, if you can share readings with friends why can't you share them with your lover or partner ?
Well, it's not a rule I was proposing. Sorry if it came off that way.
I have been thinking lately upon this question: When we connect in a spiritual way, in which direction are we connecting, so to speak? Are we necessarily connecting horizontally, across the gap that separates us from other people we can perceive, the people we already know, our friends and family members? Or is the primary connection we are seeking with the I Ching itself, an unseen agency of a spiritual kind?
Maybe this is not an issue with other people. But it has been an issue with me, probably because I have known very possessive people. It has been important for me to separate my interests from their interests in order to make any progress at all.
Society places so much status and emphasis on relationships as the unacknowleged religion of our time, wanting time to be alone to really connect is seen as weird.
However I heard the spiritual purpose of marriage is 2 people making that divine connection together...thats what i heard, can't say i ever have known it.
Then again our seperateness is also an illusion isn't it...hmm
Clarity,
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W1A 6US
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