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Hi everyone, this thread comes here after I read the insights on 7uc.
I am a bit puzzled however, that this Hexagram is very seldom read in a more belligerent way (I guess indeed that the Yi Jing is never meant to be belligerent).
Has nobody ever gotten 7uc in a situation that needed to "stand up and fight"? The reason I ask this is: a year ago I was fed up of trying to talk my ex-wife into having shared custody of our son (I had him 5 days every two weeks at that point). My question was "should I be firmer in this discussion and take it to the courts"? (in the country I live, by law, any parent that asks for shared custody will have it granted.
Anyhow, the person that made this reading at the time, saw this 7uc as "be open, endure this, be disciplined in order to see what prevents you to understand and speak openly to your ex-wife". Still to this day I feel that this 7uc could have been read as "mobilize your armies and fight (in court) for this"...What is your take on this?
Anyhow, the person that made this reading at the time, saw this 7uc as "be open, endure this, be disciplined in order to see what prevents you to understand and speak openly to your ex-wife".
I think you have to go back to the actual text of the I Ching for 7 which doesn't actually say 'stand up and fight' if you read it although in certain situation it might amount to that.
I understand that the actual text doesn't encourage to fight for something, word for word, but my take is that this is the hexagram that is the closest to that, to an actual battle (since the Yi Jing is about interpreting the text rather than to read what it says word for word).
I don't know what is Whilhelm's translation in english, but in the french translation I'm using (Javary's), Hexagram 7 is "the Army", which text could sound very much as the hexagram the Yi would use in case there was a situation where an actual fight is needed.
Since I didn't read a single experience about 7uc (in the exploring divination section) that was developing in that direction I was just curious if the Hexagram 7 was actually never meant to describe a belligerent attitude (because the Yi Jing would never make use of or encourage such an attitude), or because simply nobody had yet come up with an experience that was in that context and where that hexagram could have indeed be seen as a "stand up and fight" advice.
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