54 to 38 for Aftermath of Corona Virus on the world

[AnitaS]

Hello friends
I asked the Yi what the aftermath of the Corona covid 19 pandemic would be on the world and Drew hexagram 54 line 6 moving to hexagram 38. Line 6 of 54 says the woman holds a basket with no fruit in it and a man stabs a sheep but there's no blood. Sinister. Does it mean there will be famine worldwide? Thank you yet line 6 changing takes 54 to it's opposite 55. That is abundance. So there is hope. Any thoughts? Stay safe and blessed.

 

[rosada]

Anarchy. Or at least a significant shift to self sufficiency.
People no longer believing in the supreme rightness of their Gods or governments.
I hear about us realizing there were a lot of things we were going a long with just because it was politically correct to do so and now after the shut down a lot of us are intending to not go back to supporting the old meaningless rituals. So perhaps we will be seeing people paying only the most minimum respect to the federal government and becoming much more active and self-directed in 38. Small Matters and local affairs.

 

[AnitaS]

Anarchy. Or at least a significant shift to self sufficiency.
People no longer believing in the supreme rightness of their Gods or governments.
I hear about people realizing we were going a long with a lot of things just because it was politically correct to do so and now after the shut down a lot of us are intending to not go back to supporting the old meaningless rituals. So perhaps we will be seeing people paying only the most minimum respect to the federal government and becoming much more active and self-directed in 38. Small Matters and local affairs.

Thank you Rosada. That's quite an insight.

 

[fai_35]

The Judgement of 54 points to a difficult time ahead; one can't really do much.

For Line 6, perhaps 女承筐无实 (woman bearing basket no food) is saying at the broad level the world would face shortage of food. It could also refer to the local level personal to Anita - that there will be a shortage of food. So it's advisable to stock up.

For 士刲羊无血 (man slaughter sheep no blood), the background to the image is: man slaughters a sheep as part of a ritual to draw blood as an offering, to appease something. So drawing no blood suggests the ritual didn't quite work. So there will be people (govt?) appearing to be doing something but nothing (good) will come out of it. Be wary.

And 无攸利 no particular advantage to be had.

38 speaks of 小事吉 (small matters fortunate). 'One' would do well to focus on small matters. At the broad level, 'one' could refer to communities/countries/states, focusing inwardly on small matters. At the personal level, perhaps 'one' could refer to Anita.

 

[Lavalamp]

What will the Aftermath of Corona Virus on the world be?
54.6>38
Well you asked a *very* broad question. So the YI here gives 38 as context - which refers to a certain isolation or seperation. It's two sisters moving in opposite directions.
54.6 is about going through the motions. An offering without any fruits or blood (life).
I make it to mean there will be a lot of superficial posturing in the wake of all this. Isolated people will be doing the same things they have alwasys done, but without sincerity or heart, just the form of real concern.
Political or moral posturing, I would say.

- LL

 

[bologna_tendra]

Perhaps the two sisters moving in opposite directions refers to a new Cold War in which east and west move behind China and the United States respectively. Or the two sisters could refer to the two hemispheres of the brain, meaning that the psychology of people will become scrambled in the chaos to come.

 

[HealingSpirit]

I am interpreting it as it will be a significant change in how we live our life. I can't help but thinking with hexagram 54.6, where it feels like empty or futile effort, sounds like what the government and central banks around the world is doing at the moment. To sustain the unsustainable bubble and avoid chaos, they keep pumping money that they don't actually have, digging new grave to fill another grave. Things will never be the same again and this level is unprecedented.

 

[Lavalamp]

Well - two sisters here are defnitely going to be at odds with each other here.
China knew the coronavirus was transmittable human to human in early December, and used the World Health Organization to spread the lie is was not as late as January 14. 5 or 6 weeks of lies that caused the entire world to let their guard down, and not take measures to protect their citizens.

China used that time to accumulate medical supplies, of masks and PPE's needed to deal with the pandemic. And they shut down travel between Wuhan and the rest of China - but allowed millions of infected people to travel to the rest of the world.
And there at the very least, China showed a depraved indifference to human life.
At worst they acted with malice, to damage the economies of the rest of the world, in order to somehow not be in a position of relative weakness. Like sending blankets with smallpox to the natives.

The cries for vengeance are starting to get pretty loud. People are really really pissed.
Meanwhile China's Communist rulers are flexing it's military muscles, underground nuclear tests, sending Warships to Taiwan, accelarating building bases on South China sea islands they do not own...
The same reflexive behavior that got them in trouble here in the first place.

- LL

 

[diamanda]

what the aftermath of the Corona covid 19 pandemic would be on the world
54.6 > 38

Great question. I particularly like Rosada's and HealingSpirit's answers.
Querent777 is highly inaccurate as usual.

The fruit and sheep in 54.6 are not for nutrition - they're a sacrifice, a gift, a ritual. So I don't believe they refer to food shortages. Someone who is second-best, subordinate, has reached a high position but because they're not really qualified to be there (i.e. not the 'primary wife') they fail. Tuck Chang says about this line: "that which is attained beyond one's status will not be recognised (...) an act of false affection". Since 54 shows an arranged marriage, a marriage for benefit, and here at line 6 it ends, I believe it will be the end of the whole fake banking bubble. With repercussions on everything that is fake and more focus on locality, as Rosada said.

 

[my_key]

Q: What will be the aftermath of the Corona covid 19 pandemic on the world:
A: 54.6 <> 38
Yi casts an image of a Marrying Maiden travelling through a sea of Opposition. It urges the peoples of the world to 'persist in the everlasting relationship and avoid anything that would hurt the harmony' (Huang). With two women running the household things could work out rosy but the differences between them, embroiled by sense of not being in control, in the short term, means that they cannot live in harmony until things become more resolved. This can often be the case when people find themselves in difficult situations - their hostilities and their fears have to be played out first.

The fan yao of 54.6 (38.6 as given by Huang) adds a bit more detail
Diversity isolated. ...... There is a sense of world-wide isolation ( differences not respected)
See a pig covered with dirt, ...... people are seen as less than they are
A wagon carrying devils. ...... and fearing the worst in everything, people become defensive
First draw the bow, ...... This leads to tension
Then lay it aside. ...... then people begin to relax
Not an invader, but a suitor. ....... these villians are not what they seem, they are there to woo you
Going forward, encounter the rain, ....... next as the world is washed clean
Then good fortune. ....... things begin to get better

....or maybe it's nothing like that at all.

Good Luck

 

[Lavalamp]

Querent777 is highly inaccurate as usual.
The fruit and sheep in 54.6 are not for nutrition - they're a sacrifice, a gift, a ritual. So I don't believe they refer to food shortages. Someone who is second-best, subordinate, has reached a high position but because they're not really qualified to be there (i.e. not the 'primary wife') they fail. Tuck Chang says about this line: "that which is attained beyond one's status will not be recognised (...) an act of false affection". Since 54 shows an arranged marriage, a marriage for benefit, and here at line 6 it ends, I believe it will be the end of the whole fake banking bubble. With repercussions on everything that is fake and more focus on locality, as Rosada said.

Diamanda, *I* certainly did not say 54.6 refered to food shortages.
I said it refered to going through the motions but without substance. A grain offering with nothing in the basket is not really an offering. Neither is a sheep offering with no blood. You make a show of making an offering - but there really isn't one. It's all pretense and symbolism.
One might argue it's a reference to moral signaling.
This is "highly in accurate as usual" to you? How, exactly?
Defend your personal attack.

- LL

 

[rosada]

Uh, no, please don't. If either of you feel more needs to be said please take it over to Moderation. Thanks!

 

[diamanda]

Don't worry Rosada, I wasn't planning to.

 

[Lavalamp]

Don't worry Rosada, I wasn't planning to.

Alternately, you could apologize for the disparaging remark that in reading the Yi I "always get it wrong."
Nobody is perfect. But you certainly must know that is not true. You could at least pretend to be collegial.

- LL

 

[diamanda]

Querent777, when I said you're inaccurate, I wasn't referring to your reading abilities but to the great amount of other non-reading stuff you wrote.