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..I believe lack of protection was/is central to what Hilary's initial post was/is about. The shaman she refers to fails to protect herself from the influence of the distant primitive mother, depicted as a the whistling feline. It's an interesting connection. But I still do not see the necessity of her being a decadent influence. Severe, inhuman, instinctive, yesbut the dark and the murky exist already within Dui. Perhaps it is the protection of the cat which keeps the shaman safe from the dark aspects of the swamp.
Just a set of associations in the background - needn't add up to anything specific, it's just part of the lake we go fishing in for readings.
Hi Hilary,
The various associations to hex 58 line 5 are all based upon hex 58 being about sincerity or trusting and line 5 being a strong line in a strong place and a ruling place with an open line above it in the 6th place which is the place of the sage and the setting sun which would yield notions of a female shaman in the West and other imagery.
My questioning of the calligraphy was not about its age or origin; but rather seeing it as a Western modern art drawing of a European ballerina rather than an ancient Chinese brush stroke image of Chinese metaphors.
Yellowbridge notes the character as being about a smiling person with the meaning of folks getting together to exchange valuable things or sell or exchange for cash.''
Yellowbridge made me think of Anthony Quinn as Zorba the Greek.
He is not a "trickster" but he is open to the ground of our instinctual
life as are shamans . Most societies are afraid of their instincts. They
make rules about "good" and "evil" that don't make sense. They wish to
feel "moral" by keeping the " evil" hidden below the surface .
The image of an open mouth indicates all the apertures that
that receive food, air and impressions.
"'Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses
Rilke
The I Ching was based on a universal knowledge of the macrocosm and the microcosm.
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