1.1,2,4,5>52 Our future?

[mlekac]

My current relationship with X is going through stormy faze. To cut to essential - He had had an affair. I knew it from the start and decided to let him fool around, believing that it wont last and that he will return. And that's exactly what happened. I'm not holding a grudge towards him because of that, but he feels that he wasn't fair towards me and has a big regret. Lately, he started urging me to leave him and find someone else (And I have no intention to do that - I told him that clearly).
I know that he loves me, and I love him, but at the moment - his conscience is creating stir... So, I've asked Oracle: What will my future with X look like? I've got 1.1,2,4,5 changing into 52.
It seams like positive answer to me, but since I'm still new to this, all those moving lines are bit confusing. So, any help in understanding this answer would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.

 

[Liselle]

I agree with you that this sounds positive.

1, Creative Force changing to 52, Stilling. If I'd try making a little phrase from that (one of Hilary's suggestions), I might get something like "creating stillness." Stillness can be a good thing. It follows the hexagram for "Shock" (51) which seems very relevant to what happened. After a shock, things settle down. In this case it's fed by creative force - you and your husband might have to apply some power of creation here.

52 might also describe how you've handled this. You didn't confront him or blow your top as most people might have.

The lines look like a story to me (quoting Hilary's translation):

‘Dragon underwater – don’t act.’

‘See the dragon in the fields.
Fruitful to see great people.’

‘Someone dancing in the abyss.
No mistake.’

‘Dragon flying in heaven.
Fruitful to see great people.’

Line 1 sounds like what you've already done. You didn't react to the affair. (Describing something prior to the moment of the reading is something line 1 is known to do - I haven't just made this up.)
Line 2 - now the "dragon" is out in the open and visible. You've both acknowledged what happened.
Line 4 - sounds to me like what your husband is doing, or maybe a description of your marriage influenced by your husband's regret. He's hovering uncertainly over an abyss, not sure if he, or your marriage, can or should make it to the other side.
Line 5 - the dragon (who I'd probably see now as your husband or your marriage) strongly takes flight - makes it over the abyss, since line 4 was also in the reading. "Great people" might describe you and him, that you're big enough people with a wide enough perspective to get past this. Could also mean a counsellor of some sort, if you think that could help.

 

[Liselle]

Here's an article Hilary wrote about working with multiple moving lines, if you'd be interested.

Multiple moving lines, revisited

It's a common source of confusion and frustration with I Ching readings: 'My answer has multiple moving lines, and they contradict one another. How am I supposed to make sense of this?' Here's an article to help you with that. Why 'revisited'? Many years ago now, I wrote a rambling overview of ways

www.onlineclarity.co.uk

 

[Liselle]

Also, have you been through Hilary's free Beginners' Course?

Beginners' Course

Introduction: what you'll learn Welcome to Clarity's I Ching course for beginners. This is really for complete beginners: it starts absolutely from scratch, with no prior knowledge required at all, and by the end you'll be able to cast and interpret your own readings. (If you're already comfo

www.onlineclarity.co.uk

 

[mlekac]

Also, have you been through Hilary's free Beginners' Course?

Beginners' Course

Introduction: what you'll learn Welcome to Clarity's I Ching course for beginners. This is really for complete beginners: it starts absolutely from scratch, with no prior knowledge required at all, and by the end you'll be able to cast and interpret your own readings. (If you're already comfo

www.onlineclarity.co.uk

I am going through it right now. Thank you so much for your help. Didn't respond immediately, because I was without PC for few days, and I'm clumsy with cellphone. You helped me a lot. Thank you.

 

[mlekac]

Here's an article Hilary wrote about working with multiple moving lines, if you'd be interested.

Multiple moving lines, revisited

It's a common source of confusion and frustration with I Ching readings: 'My answer has multiple moving lines, and they contradict one another. How am I supposed to make sense of this?' Here's an article to help you with that. Why 'revisited'? Many years ago now, I wrote a rambling overview of ways

www.onlineclarity.co.uk

If I read it correctly, those lines are changing into 1.1>44, 1.2>13, 1.4>9 and 1.5>14. All of this, definitely sounds positive to me...

 

[Liselle]

44 is a powerful disruption, which fits what happened. Don't underestimate it. 9 is about a small farmer who's worried about the weather (also applicable!) It requires daily work on a small scale - keep tending the crops. 14, Great Possession - .

The step of change 1.4 to 9 - 1 and 9 seem a little mismatched, great creative force interacting with small farming. Might be interesting to see how that plays out. Maybe creation expresses itself in ordinary, daily life, maybe daily life is infused with a sense of creating something...


This gets a little involved, so don't worry about it, but I think it's interesting: hexagram 9 is Small Farming, and there's another hexagram called Great Farming (hexagram 26). The difference is often said to be that hexagram 9 is more like gardening or subsistence farming - something one does alone, with barely enough to get by and not much room for error. 26 is a bigger farming operation, which has all the resources it needs to be successful.

Since hexagrams 1 and 9 interact at line 4, I wondered what lines cause 1 and 26 to interact. Turns out it's lines 4 and 5, and both of those were in your reading.


1.....26

I think that's another piece of good news. You'll have to spend some time hovering over the abyss, anxiously worrying about the weather and wondering whether you'll make it or not (like the small farmer), but if you tend your crops and little flock of chickens, I think the reading says you can.

 

[mlekac]

44 is a powerful disruption, which fits what happened. Don't underestimate it. 9 is about a small farmer who's worried about the weather (also applicable!) It requires daily work on a small scale - keep tending the crops. 14, Great Possession - .

The step of change 1.4 to 9 - 1 and 9 seem a little mismatched, great creative force interacting with small farming. Might be interesting to see how that plays out. Maybe creation expresses itself in ordinary, daily life, maybe daily life is infused with a sense of creating something...


This gets a little involved, so don't worry about it, but I think it's interesting: hexagram 9 is Small Farming, and there's another hexagram called Great Farming (hexagram 26). The difference is often said to be that hexagram 9 is more like gardening or subsistence farming - something one does alone, with barely enough to get by and not much room for error. 26 is a bigger farming operation, which has all the resources it needs to be successful.

Since hexagrams 1 and 9 interact at line 4, I wondered what lines cause 1 and 26 to interact. Turns out it's lines 4 and 5, and both of those were in your reading.


1.....26

I think that's another piece of good news. You'll have to spend some time hovering over the abyss, anxiously worrying about the weather and wondering whether you'll make it or not (like the small farmer), but if you tend your crops and little flock of chickens, I think the reading says you can.

Thank you so much! Yes, I think I'll have to work hard to smooth his fears and anxieties, because, it seems to me, at the moment he is worried that I'll try to "pay back" for his behavior. Maybe I'm foolish, but, I really have no intentions to do that. It's just that I'll really will need time and effort to sooth him.
I think that's my "small farming". Hope all will turn out well. Thank you for your help.