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37.1 and strength of character

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Dear All,

Who is portrayed in 37.1 - a child that has been disciplined or a strong person who bottles down their emotions and gets on, or perhaps, a child that has been disciplined and has now bottled down their emotions and got on:cool:? If this hexagram describes how one sees a certain person, does it portray strength or weakness?

Many thanks for your insight!:)
 
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Howdy hooliganetta,

While WB paints a punitive picture of disciplining a child, I think that view is typically, well, Wilhelm.

A home is supposed to be first a safe place, not a prison. I've no problem seeing line 1 as a child, and as the family's future. It's vital to begin with establishing a secure foundation.

A similar dynamic is found in 7.1, also a bit in 49.1. In all these, the beginning is all important.
 

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If this line is describing another person, then it shows that person to be willful, not playing by the rules, petulant, disruptive, spoilt, self centred, and selfish. It shows that the person is a real pain in the a** and thus extremely difficult to deal with as they expect everything to be done for them.
So really it is classed as a weakness, an affliction because they will find it impossible to get along with others.
 
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wow

Well, there you have it, two completely opposite interpretations. It always comes back to you to choose.
 
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Hmmmmmmm... this is why I love this forum!:D

I guess, a little backgound is needed: a male housemate and I had a little run-in, where we vented our latent (or not so latent, as the case may be) emotions for each other, and decided to not get together, stay friends and firmly forget that little conversation to preserve the peace in the house.I'm being all happy, friendly and cheerful,as per our agreement. He's pissy and depressed, making snide comments and complaining that "women are stronger than men emotionally".:confused:

I asked the IC how my housemate sees me now, and that's the response I got!

Any more ideas? Perhaps he thinks I'm a pain in the ass for bottling up my emotions and acting like nothing has happened? I suppose, entirely possible....:rolleyes:
 
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I'm being all happy, friendly and cheerful,as per our agreement. He's pissy and depressed, making snide comments and complaining that "women are stronger than men emotionally".:confused:

Interesting, cuz the way you say he describes you is quite a bit like the upper trigram of Sun, the eldest daughter: strong, independent, well ordered and influential.

Maybe he wants you to be more emotionally dependent on him, ala 37.1. Ya know, male ego thing?
 
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Sounds valid - the male ego thing is definintely on show at the mo...LOL
For me, line one appears to be also about shutting oneself off in a protective space, could be that as well, I suppose...

Thank you for your comment, it's good to have another opinion on the whole thing!:bows:

BTW, can't find that new "thank you" button we are encouraged to use these days, but I've always preferred thanking people at the end of the post in plain old words and sometimes adding bows, anyhow :)
 

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I asked the IC how my housemate sees me now, and that's the response I got!

Don't forget that those are his private thoughts of you, so you have obviously upset his trolley in a big way.

Go poke him in the eye or something that should fix it.
 
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Dear all,

Thank you - and Willowfox, bril suggestion re poking him in the eye!!!Anyhow, I'm off to Brighton for the weekend, so no time to worry about pissy housemates!:D I will be off the internet for the weekend, and can already feel I'll be missing this forum :cool:Have a great weekend guys!
 

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Any more ideas? Perhaps he thinks I'm a pain in the ass for bottling up my emotions and acting like nothing has happened? I suppose, entirely possible....:rolleyes:

no matter what he thinks right now Hoolliganetta, don't fall for this, go find yourself a strong independent man to play with!
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Dear All,

Thank you for the help on this one!:bows:
:brickwall:The situation has deteriorated further though, so I have put another question to the oracle as to how to handle it best - more in a separate post...
 

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