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aine

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Hi all

I asked a question today and drew hex 49 unchanging which confuses me. Actually readings where the hexigram is unchanging is very confusing to me. I am practicing to play music, and I play in a couple of different venues around town strickly for socializing and entertainment. I've only been playing for almost 2 years and need lots of practice at home, which I do almost daily. But I sometimes struggle to keep up the discipline. Anyway when I asked how my musical venture is going I got 49 unchanging. 49 is about things being out of balance right and needing a radical change? How can change be unchanging? Thanks for any reply.

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49 represents losing what is old to grow what is new. As applied to a two year old venture into playing music, I'd be pretty optimistic at receiving 49. Could be you're at the cross roads, to use an old blues term.
 

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Hey There

I was a muso for years, I would see that as like meng said maybe its time

"to get up & get out into something new" experiment maybe

ROLLIING STONES
 
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You say you want a Revolution

I asked a question today and drew hex 49 unchanging which confuses me. Actually readings where the hexigram is unchanging is very confusing to me. I am practicing to play music, and I play in a couple of different venues around town strickly for socializing and entertainment. I've only been playing for almost 2 years and need lots of practice at home, which I do almost daily. But I sometimes struggle to keep up the discipline. Anyway when I asked how my musical venture is going I got 49 unchanging. 49 is about things being out of balance right and needing a radical change? How can change be unchanging?
It is always tough to get a reading with no moving lines...I often assume that it means that I have not asked the right question.

Now you asked "how is it going" and Yi answered H49. I would take that to mean that you are trying to "change your skin" or change your identity and become a professional musician.

If that is so, Yi is simply reminding you that what you are doing is a radical change....The commentary should be heartening for you.

From the WikiWing:

'Radical change.
On your own day, there is truth.
Creating success from the source, harvest in constancy.
Regrets vanish.'


I would have to say that this is an encouraging commentary, suggesting that you "keep on trucking," trying to make the transformation.

H49, incidentally, does not imply that there is something wrong or out of balance. A snake shedding his skin does not mean that anything was terribly wrong with his old skin. It is an attempt to transform.....From the Wikiwing:

"Radical change isn’t change for its own sake, and it’s not a disruption of order. It’s the restoration of original cosmic order in human life."

And I have to say I like a transformation that puts music up on the priority list.:)

Tiger
 
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aine

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Wow, that's really cool. I wasn't sure what to make of 49. I have a good steady job so I'm not trying to be professional. But I've been thinking that eventually when I've a good savings account, had enough of office life, and sufficient skill, I would like to take a go at it.

Right now all I really want is to play for playing itself. With no ego involvement for good or bad. I think that in itself can be life changing. I've definitely been taking this more and more seriously.

A number of people have said some very encouraging things. Maybe I shouldn't always assume that they are just being nice.

I play folk/traditional style of music. I'm not sure how to merge that with the Stones :D but I'm sure it would sound great.

Thank you all.
 
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meng

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Welcome, Aine.

Quite a few of us here enjoy playing music of one style or another. It truly can be a revolutionary experience if you take to it enthusiastically.
 
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Thanks for a great article on a modern legend, Lloyd. Cropper is the real deal.

Funny though, about a half hour ago, I couldn't get The Rascal's tunes out of my head - Groovin' especially, and now reading about Steve's collaboration with Felix Cavaliere.
 

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I like folk music especially Dylan & Donavan, I like the mystical undertone of his lyric & Dylan because he is so straight forward.

Thats the thing with music its probably an ever changing 49 you see the way bands that have been around for a while some tend to evolve and adapt even it means simply cutting your hair as that can be a big change for the audience.

I saw a good doco on the origing's of british rock and the stones the narrator's were saying realised that the 60's or that era was over of love and peace and embraced the darker times musicaly that came soon after so that was a classic 49 there music was very different I thought to the previous decade, there look everything, beatles were the same they changed, the ones thats stayed the same or didnt really evolve faded away.

49 is nice hex really
assuming that what you change into is a new and better version

Jimmy Page from Led Zepplin I am pretty sure played on Sunshine (Donavan) wich they are two completely different contrasts, anyway I will shutup now I could talk for hours about this

Steve
 
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Hi Aine – Whether we talk folk :hug: or funk, hexagram 49 follows upon hexagram 48, the Well. Having shared what you can at the well (jamming), you are likely to slowly draw your own conclusions about playing music (Image: orders the calendar and clarifies the seasons).
However, having no changing lines means that there are no immeditae big changes in what you do. So, it sounds funny but, the period of Radical Change is there to stay for a while ... a period of contemplation on what it is you would want to play.
Hexagrams without changing lines are as normal as the ones with changing lines. One way to read them is to look at the Sequence, the Images/Judgement and the (fully) transformed hexagram (mountain over water, 4, as unchanging hexagrams are said to move into their opposites; over time). It also helps to read all the lines, to get an idea of the movement in the hexagram, a pattern you might come to recognize. Sometimes the rulers of the hexagram can give useful information also.
 

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