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40.2.4.5 > 8

It feels as if since 2000 there has been alot of natural and 'man-made' disasters and the latest earthquake in Japan, as is being discussed in a few other threads, has made me think back to the twin towers.

I asked what significance does this have for us humans?

Both images have water...thunder and rain, water over earth. The arousing and water as a down pour of emotion. the earth below which remains despite all the shakes, floods crashes etc etc. And the water that washes over it clearing and making space.

from the wiki wing for 8:
8 in its purest sense can be the clear open fertile plain after the floods abate. Tabula rasa, where the new world can be created out of relationships. Some ‘erasing’ might be needed first.

Its almost impossible to not feel these diasters on a personal level because of our telecommunications, we can see and hear it all.

Weirdly on March 11 my bathroom and kitchen flooded with water from the mains, its was quite synchronistic when I later heard about Japan.

40.2
One kills three foxes in the field
And receives a yellow arrow.
Perseverance brings good fortune.

Hmm how to apply this without being insensitive? For me there is a sense that from what gets destroyed remains people and their stories of how they pulled together (katrina I suppose had a lot of looting though).

40.4
Deliver yourself from your great toe.
Then the companion comes,
And him you can trust.

Also release the thumbs, which I relate to a lot more, let go of your grip. Disasters certainly have turned peoples lives around and brought them together.

40.5
If only the superior man can deliver himself,
It brings good fortune.
Thus he proves to inferior men that he is in earnest.

For all of us I guess to release ourselves from the small and then join our brothers and sisters, 8.

Perhaps thats an overly idealistic look at these hexes, but I do feel more connected to people everywhere these days. Has anyone else cast a reading on this subject?
 
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That's what I have been saying for ages chingching - although there's a lot sad about these disasters it brings people together - we are all so seperate now with the breakdown of so many families and the ease it is to go and live wherever you want these days etc. so really I think all these things are happening to bring the world back together again. xx
 

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well in fact a lot of people have been saying it for a long time, it was nice though to have it come up as a yi reading. Especially this week, when my clients at work have been more difficult than usual, to know that eventually people come together.
 

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interesting reading.
Crowley's words about H8 popped into my mind
"first examine, art thou right".

such disasters makes us re-examine with who/what we "unite" with
 

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ohh that great, I havent read any of crowley's I Ching, thanks for the link

Base well thy tower upon the people's power
Thy first step missed, disaster shalt thou seeQUOTE]
 

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Base well thy tower upon the people's power
Thy first step missed, disaster shalt thou seeQUOTE]

:)

8 , for me, talks a lot about the foundations of any union. First examine, the first step ...etc. Rarely I reference Crowley but his 8 its one of my favorites.
 

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