Headaches 20.2.3>57

[Serafena]

Hey there - I’ve been experiencing bad headaches for several weeks now. I have Lyme disease, but it’s generally managed well enough and headaches have never been a symptom of mine.
I asked
“What is the cause of my headaches?”

I received 20.2.3>57
I’m pretty lost on this one — any thoughts?
Thank you!

 

[BaronAsh]

I thought you might find this commentary from the Medical I Ching of interest. It's a bit hard to find these days though you can get bootleg copies online...




If you haven't studied Chinese/Daoist medical theory then the connection between the medical diagnosis and the hexagram will be opaque (but isn't it already with the usual commentary?), but some of what they say might ring a bell.

Wind disorders usually involve some sort of arthritis or other pain due to blockage.

20 generally, imo, involves introspection or close examination of outer phenomena, in other words a time to pay attention, look deeply.

I've wrested with Lyme for probably 20 years or longer but certainly since 2015 when I got a positive test from Inxi (?) in California when the symptoms were especially terrible. I've found that, as well as being very difficult though of course it varies from person to person, that it has been a great Teacher. I have been obliged to change many things which otherwise I would not have changed; it has humbled me greatly; and it has helped open me to much better relationships with friends, family and a new spouse. I used it as the basis for meditation for several years and now, although most of the symptoms have receded, all of its many excellent lessons have remained.

So perhaps the headaches per se are some sort of alarm but not anything in and of themselves to worry about. Generally if something is manifesting up top it comes from an imbalance below, which in the case of your throw is the 2nd and 3rd lines. Similarly, if the symptom is acute and of short duration - like most of your headaches? - then the problem is more chronic and long-term.

The trigram the two changing lines make is Wind/Gentle which creates #57 which I find very positive. Wind-Wood-Gentle has to do with gentle, steady penetration, like roots growing and spreading underground, or the way breezes touch each and every of thousands of leaves in a group of trees, or entire forest for that matter. So there is a quality of gentle touch, detail by detail, step by step, one moment at a time. If the Earth below in #20 is a tad unstable, then steady gentleness is the way forward.

Lastly, one of covid's symptoms is headaches - as are generally any flu-like thingies - so you might be getting some of that (or spike proteins from the vaccinated which also cause flu-like symptoms). If so, this could be good news because if all you get is a few headaches, then your immune system will have come through victorious (as it does for 99% of us) and you won't have to worry about it any more.

 

[Trojina]

Hey there - I’ve been experiencing bad headaches for several weeks now. I have Lyme disease, but it’s generally managed well enough and headaches have never been a symptom of mine.
I asked
“What is the cause of my headaches?”

I received 20.2.3>57
I’m pretty lost on this one — any thoughts?
Thank you!

Your eyes ? In line 2 the woman squints through a narrow gap in the door, she can't get a full view. In line 3, 'to and fro goes the way' (from memory) makes me think of how the lens of the eye flexes back and forth in the attempt to see. Well I don't know the real terms for that process but you get what I mean.

Also 57, subtle penetrating. You are trying to see, either physically or through thinking. This answer is about processing information I think.

Are you trying to figure something out you don't have enough information about ? Or are you struggling to focus when reading ? The 57 makes me think you are trying to figure something out in your life and you may be holding tension in your forehead because you're probing this over and over again.


Whatever it is it does seem worth probing, you can find an answer or solution it may just take those headaches to get there on the way.


Also think of what the woman is doing in line 2. She's trying to see what's happening but she is limited in her breadth of vision. She wants to see and can't she has to use the bit of information she has. Maybe stop trying so hard to grasp something that is preoccupying you. You can't quite see it right now.

20 is viewing of course, viewing from a vantage point but as you're in the lower trigram you don't necessarily have the perspective you'd get if you had lines 5 and 6 changing for example.