26.2 a definite break?

[persephone]

I got 26.2 for a problem I have with a friend. As I was reading about this line I wondered if this means a definite break (as some on this forum explained) or like LiSe's interpretation: just a temporary break.

Anyone have any experience with this line?

 

[foxx777]

I have much experience with 26.2, and I view it as Legge does:

"One must stop, and he himself acts the part of the brake", meaning, one must put a stop to action, temporarily, until the time calls again for action.

Lofting views it this way:

"One pushes too hard. OR One pushes too hard. One must avoid excess and remain centred."

 

[canislulu]

Persephone,

While I can't recall a relevant personal experience of 26.2 > 22 in this moment, I do have some thoughts about your reading. In Wikiwing 26.2 is expressed as "The cart's axle brackets come apart." My thought is that just because the axle brackets come apart, one doesn't necessarily throw the cart away. One might consider repairing the brackets. So what is needed to repair the difficulty in the relationship? Or do you want a new "cart" altogether?

Broken axle brackets certainly speak to difficulty in a relationship. If I had received this reading about a relationship I might consider looking not only at what is broken in the external relationship with another person, but also what isn't moving forward in terms of my own internal relationship with different parts of myself. Is there also an internal conflict? ...one part of you wanting one thing and another part of you wanting another? (Are there internal "wheels" that were going in different directions?) If so, how could you repair your own internal "axle" so that your cart/carriage can move forward again?

And what are your thoughts on the relating figure, 22? Have you had much experience with this hexagram? If so, what has been your experience of 22? I find that this is one of the hexagrams that different translations view quite differently. Which I Ching translations do you employ?

 

[persephone]

Hi callingcrane, I use Wilhelm and I also check Bradford and LiSe's interpretations.
Lately I've been getting 22 in abundance and it had to do with my work as a writer. In a very literal sense I've had 22 when it was speaking about a crush or a love interest or my writing/ creative endeavours.
I like your idea of trying to see what is broken in this situation. Or better: I know what is broken, just don't know how to fix it at this point.

@foxx77: apt as always! Your interpretations are always so to the point. You made me realise that 26.2 points to someone actively putting the brakes on the situation. It isn't some bad luck or a bump in the road that's causing the axl straps to come off - it is the querents own conscious decision to do so. As if you're pushing a very heavy cart down a hill and before it's about to get out off control and roll away from you, you put a stop to it. So you can take a break, think it all over perhaps?