56.5 - help!

[charly]

Maybe, but this is the only way they accept
Have you seen the video Luis post ?
I prefer the arrow option

María:

Pheasants also accept good manners. Even more, if women don't forgive the pheasant, the world will become deserted.

Pheasant are not always female symbols (for a princess or a empress), sometimes they are male symbols (!).

I saw the video, among guys, birds or not, always there is fight. Guys always spar.

Yours,

Charly

 

[charly]

Yes, because, many times, they miss...

Luis:

I advice you: be careful.

This guys today shoot edible birds. Tomorrow, who knows?, soon they will shoot even non-edible birds. All of us will be under fire.

Hurrah for the Bird's brotherhood!

Un abrazo,

Charly

P.D. see that quote!

... "Todo bicho que camina va a parar al asador." Anything that walks ends up on the grill. It is a euphemism that summarises the Argentinian attitude to culinary and sexual encounters ...
from: Carnivore's corner http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,,329431253-103680,00.html

 

[Sparhawk]

Hi Dennis,

I agree that the pheasant may be magical. The feathers can be used in a Nuo pageant, which was a very old form of bird-totem ceremony. In the Analects, Confucius showed respect for a Nuo pageant: "乡人傩，朝服而立于阼阶。" [When the country people put on their Nuo pageant, Confucius put on his best robe and stood at the front steps of the palace (to watch).] (The Analects, Ch.10)

Just to add something interesting, this reminded me of something I read in Marshall's "The Mandate of Heaven." I looked for it and he is discussing the payment of the ransom to release King Wen from King Zhou's prison. He connects part of the story with 22.4, where Wilhelm translates as "A white horse comes as if on wings," and suggests that the character 'han' 翰, translated as 'wings' may in fact refer to "the red feathers of a pheasant", another meaning for the character. He then says: "The picture appears to be of a white horse with its mane decked out with a plume of red pheasant's feathers"

 

[meng]

A little off topic, the pheasant hunting video is almost certainly from a "hunting farm", where they breed the birds for the sole purpose of releasing, and then charging hunters per bird kill. I've never seen the sport in that, especially given that the birds, once released, have no idea what to do, with no experience in the wild. They just hunker down until made to fly, and the "hunter" gets his shot.

It is a bit like Charly's example, of offering a gift of flowers to the land lord, picked from his own garden. Not a good example of 56.5 (and obviously not one I intended).

 

[Sparhawk]

Bruce is correct, indeed, about the "hunting farm". Quite despicable, if you want my opinion.

 

[fkegan]

Bruce is correct, indeed, about the "hunting farm". Quite despicable, if you want my opinion.

The wanderer is driven to the pheasant in a limousine, lumbers out, takes his best shot and gets back into the car to be driven to the next important stop....

Thinking of mechanism, how does the wanderer manage his media to become renown for his single shot bagging the pheasant to grease the palm of the job folks?

Or in the alternative, the wanderer tries his best shot at a pheasant in the wild, finds that this is a tough way to bag the bird, and realizes he could find a better avenue for his talents....The trigram Li changes with this moving line to Ch'ien, the whole hexagram changes to hex 33... the image of an army unit in orderly retreat....which is also an example of a wanderer.

Our hero in the right place, learns by missing the pheasant (as most folks do in the natural setting) that results are tough, but those with weapons and mobility have easier and better ways to make a famous name for themselves. The wanderer raises a small guerrilla army taking his wandering ways into a sphere where he can do very well without having to hit anything, using his ability to keep away from major armies but still travel freely, popping up to impress the population and harass the bureaucrats-- this is the way he attains fame and eventually the offer of a job to get him to put down his bow...

Otherwise, why does the line say "in the end...he succeeds" rather than "by his great triumph bringing down the pheasant in a single shot he is immediately hailed by the assembled media, becoming a celebrity with a good job offer"?

Frank