Is JH someone I am going to marry? Hex 37.5 >22 Okay my question may sound silly because I am not yet in an official relationship w her. But the reason why I ask this question comes from the idea that marriage is the final destination of love. I am yet 22 and my love for her feels like the...

Hello all! I find myself at a tough professional crossroads. Last year, I finished my PhD from a top university, which I always (naively) assumed would make it less difficult to find an academic position (I work in literature, that extremely pragmatic discipline). ;-) Well, I was dead-wrong...

Hi. I have for a couple of months now been trying to decide whether or not I should sign another lease for the apartment im living in at the moment. When the leasing manager put a letter in my door back in Novemeber for me to sign another lease I did not sign. My lease is up at the end of...

Hi Everyone, I hope you might be able to point me in the best direction here. I have a choice in college to take one or another module. One is practical 'sound plumbing' type module, the other is a music programming language. I'm finding the workload tough and am wondering whether I should opt...

Hello All! I received Hexagram 37 twice unchanging in regard to asking the Yi about reconnected with a past lover in the spring. I can not understand whether this means we will or won't or if the Yi is simply providing insight into the situation. I am a novice. Pardon my ignorance. Please...

Hello, I have recently been dealing with some issues related to gastrointestinal health. The extent of these issues I am uncertain, however I have my concerns that it could be something serious. I asked if there was "Blood in my stool/Is it serious if it is" and I received hexagram 37 with...

So I'm just off the phone to my mother, who is in a complete panic about her younger sister who is in a very unstable state. Its gotten to the point that my mother is considering getting her sectioned to a mental asylum. My aunt is 58 and ever since I was born my mother and her family have been...

Hello everyone! This is my first question on Online Clarity. Hope you can help. The situation that makes me ask I-Ching often for guidance and clarity is a pending relationship. I like him. In a nutshell, we have been together only two times but what happened was very powerful and have changed...

dear all, I asked the same question twice: "What can I do to keep the magic and spark alive in my partnership?" and received the same hexagram, Development, twice: First 53.1 to 37 (The Family) Then 53.4,6 to 31 (Influence) I have to admit both readings made me smile, because they seemed to...

Few hexagrams cause me more difficulty than #37 Family. One of my earlier posts about the meanings and importance of family delved into the notion that all families - even the "Ozzie and Harriett" variety - contain at least a little dysfunction. That post concluded that such dysfunction is the...

37. Chia Jen / The Family [The Clan] ----- ----- above SUN THE GENTLE, WIND -- -- ----- -- -- below LI THE CLINGING, FIRE ----- This hexagram represents the laws obtaining within the family. The strong line at the top represents the father, the lowest the son. The strong line in the fifth...