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Some of the answers I have gotten lately seem to indicate that I could be successful if I would only correct certain faults within myself. So, I asked Yi, what faults in myself do I need to correct? 30.1.2.4.6 to 46. I then asked how do I correct these faults? 7 unchanging

I think its telling me I need to slow down, take an act, not react approach to things. I also see working on clarity of mind. If I use Shao Yongs method, I would look at 46.5 which talks of taking things in steps. To me that seems to fit in with the other lines. I could see it saying that I need to take things one step at a time instead of rushing headlong into things, but I could also see it talking about the process itself, that making changes within myself takes a step by step process.

I think 7 is telling me I need more discipline to accomplish this, but beyond then I am at a loss. 7 is one of those hexes that I still don't have a good grasp of.

Any comments appreciated. Thanks
 

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30 is Clinging Radiance. 46 is Ascending. Because of all the changing lines, there's a rather strong connection between the two hexagrams. Put it together: Clinging radiantly to ascending - that's the fault you need to correct.

Hex 7 is organized force.

Put it all together: what's holding you back, paradoxically is your attachment to illumination and ascent. What would move you forward, if you could only understand it, is something quite foreign to your understanding - getting organized about putting force into motion.

If this makes no sense, consider that it's extremely common for people to stay stuck in familiar patterns that hold them back, despite their feeling that the patterns are useful and evolutionary.
 
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That would go along with a line in another reading I had that said something about not being able to move forward if you continue the same patterns. The thing is, I am not sure what patterns it is talking about. Can you explain what you mean by illumination and ascent?
 

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"Can you explain what you mean by illumination and ascent?"

Spiritual illumination is a matter of perceiving life clearly and holistically, getting beyond the limited and local view of the ego, which sees *everything* in terms of 'I' and 'mine'. Ascent is a matter of stabilizing an important lesson you've learned so that it becomes a real part of you, and the 'new' you is at a higher, more comprehensive level of being - you're operating at a higher level of capacity and responsibility.

And how does that apply to you? Dunno how to answer that, cuz I don't know you. I know your screen name - 'Seeker'. Okay, maybe you see yourself as a person who's looking for truth, cuz the truth is the path to spiritual development? I dunno. Like I said, I don't know you. But if that were the case, then what the Yi seems to be saying is: "Putting effort into spiritual enlightenment is what you need to correct."

Which is why I said 'paradoxically' in my previous answer, because my present understanding of the meaning of life is that *everybody* needs to cultivate spiritual enlightenment. So, I've given you my best take on the hex you drew, but I'm pretty much as baffled by it as you.

But I do know this: it's possible for a person to reach for the right lessons at the wrong time - too early, in fact. You have to do the groundwork, you have to be qualified before you can ascend. Imagine a middle school student applying to a university medical faculty for admission - the university would say, 'You haven't fulfilled the requirements of admission, which is successful completion of certain high school subjects.' And that student would ABSOLUTELY be required to fulfill those requirements, otherwise he/she would not be allowed to 'step up' into the medical education they wanted.

Life is exactly like that - you have to fulfill requirements at lower levels before you move on up to a higher level. So if all this is what applies to you and your question, then maybe it's all a matter of timing. You're not ready for higher ground yet, and reaching for it now is exactly the thing that's halting real development. What you really need to develop is the lesson of organizing force according to what you think is right and according to mature experience.

Again, I'm just speculating, cuz I don't know you, so I don't know how this applies to your question really.
 

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46, roots in the earth, in the background and the rising energy of 30 in the foreground - this contrast indeed suggests something like "too high too fast". If we rise too fast we lose contact with our roots.
Hexagram 7 is "basic insecurity" in my psychological book and that points in the same direction.
But, like Dobro, I don't know if and how this applies to you because I don't know enough about -guess who? - you.
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One thing I can say is that I have seen this "too high too fast" quite often. I "practiced" it myself sometimes when I was younger and once I saw a whole group doing it. Later I discovered that many members of that group plunged straight into a depression afterward. What goes up comes down.
I learned from that, and from my own flight experiences and subsequent crashes, that upward is only okay if you go upward as a whole, roots and all.
My understanding is that if you go too fast one of your subtle bodies ascends and the other bodies stay where they are, on a lower frequency. A split occurs. You are no longer one. You are two. Sooner or later the ascending part has to descend and reunite with the part that stayed low. And this is usually not a lovely soft landing. It can feel like descending into hell. I guess that explains the many "hellish" experiences that are recounted by Christian mystics. They crashed.
Not uncommon in the west. I think that the eastern flight schools have always been much better.
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