18.3.4.5 > 6 and Divorce

[halifax]

Hello, all. I recently consulted the IC asking if two people I knew were going to get divorced. I received 18.3.4.5 > 6. Sometimes the IC really just knocks me out. But I want to make sure my interpretation is not skewed by emotional bias, because I am friends with one of the people involved. What would you make of this result?

I had read this thread...

http://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/friends/showthread.php?t=3633

...and it was very interesting, especially considering this marriage was born not out of love, but out of a desire of my friend to ensure their child didn't grow up in the kind of broken home they were raised in ('the mistakes of the father'?). They weren't happy before they married, but seemed to believe getting married would ensure the child would not have to endure the kind of upbringing they did.

But I could also see this 'working on what has been spoiled' to mean work on what has been spoiled within the marriage itself, not what was spoiled within the person years ago.

I've been working with the IC for a few years and I still feel like such a novice.

 

[icastes]

18 is very bad for married life, and indicates that the parties are not destined for each other and ill-suited. Moreover, it indicates no real love there either. And, for family life, 18 indicates that the family will in all likelihood break up. 6 warns not to be conflicting; however, it basically says the same thing as 18 in terms of the life of marriage, love, and family.

 

[gene]

The lines would indicate that there is problems on both sides in this marriage. The husband may be too harsh and the wife too soft. The basis for the situation, hexagram 6, indicates constant disharmony. Constant fighting.

Gene