Helping out a friend - Hex 24

[aeorain]

Recently my best friend has been having some minor problems with one of his best friends back home. He is putting forth, in my opinion, a decent effort to make himself available to his friend, but his friend seems disinterested or distant when they are together. It isn't really a problem at the moment, but it is making my friend feel a little neglected so I asked the Oracle how I could help him in this situation.

I cast hexagram 24. As I am a relatively new diviner, I am using the free translation by LiSe Heyboer. My changing line was at the top, which according to Heyboer and Wilhelm doesn't seem too promising, making my transformed hexagram 27.

I have gotten pretty comfortable with the Oracle's way of speaking in the few months I have been asking questions, but this changing line has stumped me. It makes the situation sound much more dire than I have been given information from my friend to believe.

I am sort of in a hurry to get to bed after having been pondering this for a while. So I apologize if my format is not typical for this forum, I did not feel like taking the time to read a couple posts as I normally would. If any more information would be helpful to shed some light on this changing line I will gladly give it. I also could use some different perspectives on the hexagrams themselves, though I feel they relate to the situation a little easier. Thanks

 

[icastes]

24.6 is a warning not to act in any aggressive or improper way. If you do, then long-lasting injuries will be the result. It appears to me that this problem with your friends is not easily resolved, but with proper behavior you can succeed in patching things up. However, you ought to know that 27 is not very promising. Overall, what you have to do is to find ways for everyone to compromise and you must avoid all rash actions.

 

[aeorain]

Thanks! That is the impression it gave me, but as I'm reading to involve myself in someone else's situation I wanted to be as lucid as possible on the answer. It does seem to be getting a little more serious than I realized when I started this thread, so the 6th line is becoming less bizarre. I've encouraged my friend to distinguish between what his friend is implying by his behavior and what he might actually mean and not to make decisions based solely on inferred meaning.

Hexagram 24 speaks of a time in which people do not travel. Both my friend and I are heading back to school in the next couple of days. If you have time to answer another question, do you think there is any significance in this?

 

[icastes]

Thanks! That is the impression it gave me, but as I'm reading to involve myself in someone else's situation I wanted to be as lucid as possible on the answer. It does seem to be getting a little more serious than I realized when I started this thread, so the 6th line is becoming less bizarre. I've encouraged my friend to distinguish between what his friend is implying by his behavior and what he might actually mean and not to make decisions based solely on inferred meaning.

Hexagram 24 speaks of a time in which people do not travel. Both my friend and I are heading back to school in the next couple of days. If you have time to answer another question, do you think there is any significance in this?

I think that the guas are really saying for you tread lightly, and not get too involved or else you will wreck your relations and theirs as well. Sometimes the best thing you can do is to do nothing and do it very well.