2 different questions and the same hexagram twice in a row?

[jennalyn31]

Hello!

I am new to this forum and actually discovered it researching a paper I was writing on the I Ching. Well, I finished my paper, but as part of my paper I asked the I Ching for guidance on what it wanted to say. I threw hexagram 56 The Traveler or Wanderer, with no changing lines, the fire trigram atop the mountain. I took it to mean illumination through stillness and no need to travel anywhere, but inward. In light of that ::wink::wink::, I decided a few hours later to do another reading on a dream I'd had a few nights ago. Now, a little background on my dreams. They are usually quite vivid and epic in proportion. This most recent dream wasn't so epic, but is was just as vivid. Now, in the dream, I was aware that I was dreaming, or lucid dreaming. I stepped outside my front door (I live in the southwestern United States, Sonoran Desert) and directly in front of me was Stonehenge. It was glowing from some inner radiance. I wanted to go toward it, but for some reason couldn't move. I turned around and the house was gone. I was standing in this muddy path. I heard the sound of horses. I found myself suddenly face down in the mud, unable to move and looked up to see riding down this mountain black knights on black horses. I was a bit afraid, since I couldn't move, but since I knew it was just a dream, I wasn't too worried. So, I waited for them to either trample me or pass by. Well, they passed by in single file, avoiding me, though seemingly unaware that I was even there. They were headed in the direction of Stonehenge (I think, though I couldn't tell since I was facing the opposite direction face down in the mud.). In any case, when I asked the I Ching about what it was important for me to understand about the nature of my dream, I got the exact same hexagram with no changing lines. Now, any thoughts on this? Can it be that there is an underlying theme to my life at the moment that will influence anything I do and that is why I got the same hexagram twice?

Any more thoughts on this would be tremendously helpful and much appreciated.

Many Thanks!
Jenna

 

[pocossin]

Stonehenge is the lower trigram. Its inner radiance is the upper. Stepping outside your front door means that you began a journey, and Stonehenge directly in front means that your journey was spiritual. But you found the path muddy. The world abounds in false paths, and your dream warns you to be cautious. Since you fell face down in the mud in the direction of the now disappeared house, you had begun your journey by abandoning your original source, surely a mistake. The black knights on black horses are able to advance toward Stonehenge because they are prepared through armor and energy to advance. The dream is a warning against premature spiritual adventure.

Thanks for a fascinating dream and casting.

 

[elias]

"Traveling" means quite the opposite of your interpretation -- you're moving through a situation, which describes the experience of being a student pretty well. Fire moves across a mountainside quickly and will exhaust its fuel should it come to a standstill. And, needless to say, fire can never turn back...

Your dream seems to elaborate on that experience.

 

[diamanda]

56 does not "dwell", but moves on.

In relation to your I Ching paper - I Ching is the book of 'changes'. So
perhaps a clue that you really need to move on an on at the moment.
Changes, and not "dwelling".

The dream sounds pretty much in line - "I turned around and the house
was gone": again, the idea of "not dwelling". You felt stuck in the mud
of a path. The horses (movement) were black, so you are probably
afraid of moving on, and they pass you by, no house, no path, no horses.
56, i think, here really points you to the direction of a need to move on
from a situation.