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‘Marrying maiden. To set out to bring order: pitfall.
No direction is fruitful.’
‘Maiden marries as a younger sister.
Lame, can walk.
Setting out to bring order: good fortune.’
‘Release. The southwest is fruitful.
With no place to go,
To turn round and come back is good fortune.
With a direction to go,
Daybreak, good fortune.’
‘Freedom from all these demands might set her free from the hustle and leave her time to be just herself, enjoying her life as it is.’
‘The sentence about the lame one who steps out is probably out of place and has nothing to do with the wedding story.’
‘Maiden marries as a younger sister.
Lame, can walk.
Setting out to bring order: good fortune.’
‘With one eye, can see.
A hermit’s constancy bears fruit.’
Hexagram 54, lines 1 and 2
‘With one eye, can see.
Lame, can walk.
Treads on the tiger’s tail:
It bites him. Pitfall.
Soldier acting as a great leader.’
Hexagram 10, line 3
Y..e...s.... except that in line 1, zheng is fruitful, and it's hard to conceive of a softly-softly version of that.This seems to be calling for a 'womanly' softly softly approach to change rather than a 'manly' bull at a gate.
Y..e...s.... except that in line 1, zheng is fruitful, and it's hard to conceive of a softly-softly version of that.
Zheng isn't intrinsically good or bad - it's good in this line, but disastrous in the Oracle for the hexagram overall. And while its most basic meaning is indeed to set out on a long journey (the Long March is a zheng), it also means a punitive military expedition. Hence 'setting out to bring order' as translation: the idea is that something out there needs sorting out, and we're going to fix it now. It's pretty much the opposite of being receptive. We don't care if the rebels think they're doing fine; we intend to get them paying tribute to the king again. (And if I'd been receptive to that web designer, I might still be waiting for him to get round to anything.)Zheng from what I understand does carry the meaning of fruitful, favourable, good fortune etc and has it's roots in concepts of starting out on a journey.
I agree about it's intrinsic charge being neutral but do not align with your take on the overall oracle being 'disasterous' or that that there is any intent for an infliction of punishment in the Oracle.Zheng isn't intrinsically good or bad - it's good in this line, but disastrous in the Oracle for the hexagram overall. And while its most basic meaning is indeed to set out on a long journey (the Long March is a zheng), it also means a punitive military expedition.
Yes, the theme is of setting out to bring order. Something does need to be brought into greater harmony.Hence 'setting out to bring order' as translation: the idea is that something out there needs sorting out, and we're going to fix it now. It's pretty much the opposite of being receptive. We don't care if the rebels think they're doing fine; we intend to get them paying tribute to the king again. (And if I'd been receptive to that web designer, I might still be waiting for him to get round to anything.)
Er, no, I think we have our wires crossed. I'm just talking about the concept of zheng, which has those overtones of railroading rebels, and is a very bad idea in 54 in general:It may be that we still have a different base idea about the hexagram, mine one of completing the receptivity of the woman, and yours being one not of receptivity but more one of railroading the rebels and forcing them to pay tribute to the king. I'd be interested to hear more about how you see the rebels and the king as I'm not really following how this fits in with the marriage theme in Hex 54.
Good point.Or could it be advising how or what to change so that some movement becomes possible?
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