Clarity,
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London.
W1A 6US
United Kingdom
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I'm in a pickle right now and don't know what to do for the best. So I've asked another question, What will happen if I stay with the agency? I received 23.2.3.5 > 57.
Is it saying the old is irretrievably dying and won't come back and the only way now is too let go of the old (agency) and start something new?
'Rejecting nourishment.
Constancy, pitfall.
For ten years, don’t act.
No direction bears fruit.'
This means rejecting nourishment itself – pushing away what you need to live. This could be motivated by a dogmatic adherence to principle; perhaps you’re inclined to identify yourself with the principle, as a way to be unique. In any case, this leaves you starving and without resource; it is not ever a good idea, not for any cause.
In fact, it might help to be without a cause for a while, and have ‘no direction’. If there is no lofty aim in mind, perhaps it might become possible to sense what is needed and what opportunities are open here and now.
'Rejecting nourishment.
Ten years go round, no use.
No direction brings harvest.'
Commentary on the line: ‘rebelling greatly against dao.’ This one isn’t looking for a
new source of nourishment, but rejecting it outright. Brad Hatcher compares this line
to breatharianism.
Examples: the self-effacing mother who insists her children mustn’t take her needs
into consideration. The astrologer who refuses to advertise because of the commercial
taint, and then wonders what to live on without clients.
27 zhi Hexagram 22, Beauty and making beautiful. Perhaps the prime concern here is
preserving an image, and this distracts from the vital question of what will keep it
alive.
'With one eye, can see.
Harvest in the constancy of shadow people.'
With one eye you can see – but not everything, or not in three dimensions. There will
also be things you don’t see.
‘Shadow people’ are hermits; their constancy is the kind of truth to self that doesn’t
care whether anyone is watching. And their divination (the other translation of zhen)
is clear-sighted, unbiased. You may not be able to see everything that’s going on with
other people, but if you have this kind of understanding and constancy, it might not
matter.
54 zhi Hexagram 51, the Marrying Maiden’s Shock. Often a ‘marriage’ that isn’t what
you’d hoped for, so that you feel disappointed or abandoned. Hermit’s constancy,
stillness at the heart of the storm, looking to Hexagram 52.
"maybe just because you've set yourself in motion regardless of the confusion, you gain a lord (the character shows a lit lamp - a light-person, a guide) and harvest.
Primary meaning: to have a direction to go means things gradually clarify. At first you open to all kinds of input, and eventually this allows the beacon/guidance to appear, and the path comes into focus."
Clarity,
Office 17622,
PO Box 6945,
London.
W1A 6US
United Kingdom
Phone/ Voicemail:
+44 (0)20 3287 3053 (UK)
+1 (561) 459-4758 (US).