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‘The Well. Moving the city, not moving the well.
Without loss, without gain,
They come and go, the well wells.
Almost drawn the water, but the rope does not quite reach the water,
Or breaking one’s clay jug,
Pitfall.’
Here, wei means before. And while this time before divination might normally be a period of uncertainty and tension – not yet there, not yet reaching insight or confirmation or connection with the spirits – that’s not how it happens here. Tigers, and the people who can change like them, don’t need to count yarrow stalks; truth is already present for them (or they are already present to truth).‘Great person transforms like a tiger.
Even before the augury, there is truth and confidence.’
‘Negotiating opening, not yet at rest.
Containing the affliction brings rejoicing.’
Sometimes a longer well-rope is not what we need to find. Just undoing the crazy knots that we have in our existing well-rope might be all that is needed to make it longer.I wish I could conclude with a sparkling insight into why the authors made this pattern. I’m left with the feeling that a big point is being made, and I’m not yet quite getting it. I’ll go and look for a longer well-rope…
Yes, that's exactly it. It's a horrible situation, but in a way the Well is still reassuring: the water is always there, not going anywhere; the person, too, is always there, even when he's unreachable. The Oracle text of 48 gives me this mental image of sped-up film, with the well not changing while the people going to and fro are just a blur. That speaks to your reading, too.I asked for a comment on the condition of a dear man who is slipping into dementia. 48 and the comment about the 'rope not reaching' seems an apt description - his soul is here but he has difficulty drawing it out..
The alternating hexagram options for Hex 64 can perhaps be seen as the journey into dementia. His crossing to the other side of his illness starts from 38 Opposition and continues through to 40 Deliverance.I asked for a comment on the condition of a dear man who is slipping into dementia. 48 and the comment about the 'rope not reaching' seems an apt description - his soul is here but he has difficulty drawing it out..
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