24.2,3>11 annual reading

[philish]

Would anyone like to help me understand the conflict I see in these two lines? 24.2 sounds lovely --I can see why this is the "heart" line of the hex. 24.3 looks like no peace at all. (Negotiated peace? Watch out for vacillation?)

In the background --or heading towards-- peace.

I may go update my entry from last year's reading (53.5,6), as it was indeed a year of very slow progress, with little to show for it but a very high awareness of internal changes I experienced over the year.

I could surely use a year of peace, though. While I've succeeded in keeping some very destructive influences out of my life, I have not yet really "moved on" with my life in terms of seeing myself in a place I could call "home". I also have a couple of lingering relationships that haven't found a proper home yet, either. I would like to think the 24 here refers in part to one of these relationships, but I know better than to assume that. However, I have received 24, unchanging, that accurately indicated someone would respond. So I sometimes think of 24 as "Responding".

 

[my_key]

Hi philish

24.2 may be about walking your walk. Doing things that seem right and appropriate to you. If that means resting ...then you rest. Then because you do this you are able to have a relaxed return.
24.3 - could be the consequences if you allow your emotions and nerves to get the better of you. Have I made the right decision? Too much tooing and froing will make you dizzy and more than likely knock you off the mountain top that you have now perched yourself on.
Have a great year.
Mike.

 

[philish]

Thanks, my key.

I am truly in a spot where I do not feel at home. This bothers me a great deal because I am very very influenced by my environment. I realize that doesn't sound very spiritually mature, but there you have it.

Astrologically 2010 looks like it will be a pivotal year in which we will have change forced upon us, whether we like it or not. I'm reading through the Memoring thread on 24 and I think the idea of returning to prepared for a new season is good information. 2011/12 will definitely push us into a new season. I'm not catastrophizing, I just see this as part of a larger cycle. It's better to be aware and not rigid. Of course, 24.3 could be warning me of the danger of embracing too much mutability!

Here are Rosada's thoughts at one point on the 24 thread:

I'm seeing 24 as a puzzelment because on the one hand it fits with the winter soltice, and the idea of energy returning to source, deep within the center the eartn and that gives a visual of conciousness descending into the unconcious. So the idea of staying concious while going into the world of the unconcious, while meditating, "Don't go back to sleep." Be aware of that level where concious and unconcious thoughts mingle and mix like friends going back and forth across a border. Too and fro goes the way. Don't be shy, ask for what you really want, your unconcious knows the answer and is only too ready to share,

I have been doing a LOT of internal 18-ish work, especially this past year. And I did a bit of 24, too, by returning/reuniting with old friends who have helped connect me to myself again --you know, the essential parts we sometimes forget. If I don't touch base with the unconscious side of myself somehow it will pop up in my world. Better to let the borders flow freely. Perhaps it's the border patrols that encourage vacillation.

 

[philish]

You know, I think I just repeated what you said my key, only in about 200 words instead of 33.

 

[meng]

Howdy Philish,

If I were to draw a prediction from your reading, I'd say it won't be a whole lot different than this past year for you, in that things move along slower than you'd probably prefer, and some things which you'd probably prefer to leave behind you will instead be revisited repeatedly, and you'll repeatedly need to put them behind you and return again to your way, where the coming and going of people and things are allowed to occur without your needing to go out to meet them on their own turf (ie 10 or 44). It promises to be a good year if you allow it to be, if you really want it to be. Letting things pass. Watching them come and go, and balancing your pro-activity with trust that you are being drawn rather than pushed.

 

[philish]

Thank you, meng.

The universe does indeed seem to be teaching me something about yin energy. I'm not good at it, tho' I may be female. I am looking for peace, but then, as one of my friends once said, "%$^#@@#! peace. The only authentic peace comes after you've birthed The Beast."

Progress is never a straight shot to anything, is it? Always a dance back and forth...

 

[philish]

Hey Meng-- why did you mention 10 and 44? Were you simply using them as illustrations, or am I missing something in the reading?

Funny. Just reading up in another book (Sherrill) who says that in a yearly reading for a professional or business person 24.3 suggests success in publishing pursuits.

Now there's an idea. I do have something requested by a niche publishing house that's sitting with them right now. And I'm working on an historical YA novel. The line does fit the rewrite/editing process -- a lot of hemming and hawing and fussing involved, you know?

Btw, I'm not reading this as straight prediction. I did ask, "What do I need to know about?" so the Yi could very well be offering me advice about approaching the year.

 

[tigerintheboat]

Contradicting Lines

Would anyone like to help me understand the conflict I see in these two lines? 24.2 sounds lovely --I can see why this is the "heart" line of the hex. 24.3 looks like no peace at all. (Negotiated peace? Watch out for vacillation?)

In the background --or heading towards-- peace.

Well, one way to work with contradicting lines is to go through the "steps of change," I think it is called.

So 24.2, the line you are comfortable with, leads to H19 (Nearing), and then you read Line 3 there.

H19.3, from the Wikiwing
‘Sweetness nearing,
No direction brings harvest.
Already grieving it, no mistake.’

Perhaps things went so sweetly for you that you forgot the existence of other flavours. Perhaps you tried to be all sweetness (nice, kind, attentive, acceptable). Too good to be true, not sustainable at all. The best move is to accept this, grieve it and move past.

Or Karcher says approximately that the Approach looks sweet, but there is no way good can come of it. Finally, that changes and ....

Changing Line 3 on H19 leads to Peace or Prospering.

Let me know if this was useful. I am not doing a lot of analysis here, because I think you need to see if it makes more sense this way than the traditional way.

Tiger

 

[philish]

Interesting. I think the message here is not to assume anything. Don't slip into fantasy; don't overlook details; don't go limp. Take care of business and then things will flow. That's the overall message I get from some of the readings of 19.3 here.

I think with 24 involved I could add another message: don't be anyone but yourself. I get this from LiSe's site, and this certainly rings true for me. If I find myself accommodating others' opinions and plans without due regard to my own, I am always the loser. One of the harsher lessons of a lifetime attempting to be "nice" and not tread on anyone's toes.

If you were reading this for yourself, would you place emphasis on 24.2's step change because it leads to hex. 11, the original secondary hexagram?

 

[meng]

Hey Meng-- why did you mention 10 and 44? Were you simply using them as illustrations, or am I missing something in the reading?

Just examples of the opposite action.

 

[tigerintheboat]

Tiger Steps

If you were reading this for yourself, would you place emphasis on 24.2's step change because it leads to hex. 11, the original secondary hexagram?

Not sure I understand you on this question. H24, line 2 transforms to H19. H19, line 3 transforms to H11.

So H24.2's step change is to H19. You still get to H11, but it takes two steps.

Clear, or even worse?

Tiger

 

[philish]

Because the steps in 24.2 lead to the second hex from the original reading, I thought you might have given that line additional weight or preference. But really, I think both lines/steps need consideration.

 

[philish]

After thinking about this over a couple of very emotional days, I'm beginning to see this reading pointing to a theme of integration. I'm sure there's a more specific hex for this, but after last year's lessons, I probably need another year of experimenting and integrating last year's lessons. No need to go charging off on completely new paths!

 

[philish]

following up!

Funny. Just reading up in another book (Sherrill) who says that in a yearly reading for a professional or business person 24.3 suggests success in publishing pursuits.

Quite a LOT happened in 2010 for me. Regarding my earlier observation above, Sherrill has something valuable in this interpretation: I successfully self published two books --a comic book and an accompanying workbook-- which has been moderately popular in 2011, but a BIG success when I initially introduced it at a conference in late 2010.

I also returned to a previous profession after a 15 year hiatus. NEVER thought that would happen!

An old romantic interest also returned ever so briefly. Someone I had not seen in almost 20 years.

Also moved to another state/city/culture: finally feel I've returned to myself after many years of feeling like an alien.

But the admonition in 19.3 held true, too: never take anything for granted. Lots of transitions, but nothing quite settled in 2010. --Or 2011, for that matter.

Thought someone here would appreciate the update.

 

[hebe]

Hi, I had 24:3 quite a lot and so was curious how it turned out for you. I still believe for me that it was a reflection of an inner to-ing and fro-ing without deciding and getting my knickers in a twist about it on all levels. I waited over months with curiosity reflecting back on old readings and as 24:3 came up several times over the last year it was always an interesting one for me. Isn't that great that you finally feel that you've come home, returned, and not so much the alien.... Long may it last with continued insights. Good Luck, Hebe