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Hi all,

A dear friend (not romantic) had gone incommunicado for a very long time, which left me both very worried about this person as well as very sad as to the state of this friendship. In recent weeks, when I asked the I about it, it would respond with 56 (travelling), 12 (blocked), 49 (revolution) and so on, suggesting a tumultuous time. Which was very much the case.

We spoke on the phone yesterday at last for over an hour and a half and I was relieved. My friend had gone into a sort of seclusion to try to get a grip on life and figure out what changes needed to be made. I think the assessment was pretty realistic, yet I wonder whether he'll follow through or get engulfed by "stuff" again. Also, nothing is more important to me than my friendships; it's hurtful when I feel that extended hand is taken for granted.

So this morning I asked the I what is the future of this friendship. It gave me a combination I've never had and thus have no particular affinity with: 1.1.5.6 to 32.

1.1 strikes me as a pretty apt description of where my friend was at: a time to reflect, and not act.
1.5 sounds like where he's evolved right now - rousing himself to get his act together
1.6 sounds to me like a warning, "the dragon exceeding the proper limits" leading to repentance, but I'm not sure if this is speaking in the present or the future, how to interpret the nature of the warning or whether it is warning me or my friend.

As a result, 32, which usually sounds nice to me, is perplexing and I'm not sure whether it means the positive changes that are evolving are durable or whether it is the excess warned about in line 6 that is refered to.

Thanks for your help in understanding this better!
 

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What is the future of this friendship?
1.1.5.6 > 32


What has changed in the friendship is your disappointment at your friend's withdrawal. Apparently he went into seclusion in a desperate attempt to find himself, but in my opinion we come to know ourselves through our interactions -- we mirror each other -- so his hour and a half phone conversation with you did him more good than his months in seclusion. I think the friendship will continue as it has been until there is a fundamental change in your friend's philosophy of life.
 

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Hi Pocossin,

I'd like to apologize for not responding to your reply earlier; since you posted about a week after I'd asked about this reading, I'd not seen it and haven't been visited here much of late.

As serendipity would have it, I asked about this friendship again this morning. We've been having humdinger conversations in the past month and it's been rewarding to see my friend having a few quite visible "lightbulb moments". I've had a few of my own too in the process. And in that vein your message was spot on - very much a case of "we get to know ourselves through our interactions."

I stumbled onto your message because I received the very same reading today when I asked "what should I know about my friend I don't already know?" While I like hex 1 and 32 in general, 1.1 and 1.6 still leave me a bit non-plussed. Maybe I don't like dragons :) and I can't see where repentance in line 6 would fit in. If you or others can help me make sense of that, that would be great.
 

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H 1.1.5.6 > 32
looks good to me...

Creative force Endures/Lasts

1.1 --- creativity requires the "underwater" time where things haven't yet emerged
1.5 --- then it comes to expression
1.6 --- it can be "over the top" --- enough is enough

Perhaps your friend needs periods of isolation to work on things --- as you described
Then things come to expression.
It gets "over the top" --- and that chapter ends...

but a new chapter will begin ---
could feel like a roller coaster I suppose
but if you know your friend needs the 1.1 time and not take it personally, enjoy the 1.5 times, and recognize the 1.6 times too....

I am learning to take these "difficult" lines... like 1.6 .... less as predictions and more as warnings. While you cannot keep your friend from "going over the top, you can be aware that this can be a pattern. Hilary's commentary may be helpful:

"He neglests to pay attention to what supports his flight, and sends out all the wrong messages.

If you are aware that your friend can sometimes sent out the wrong message then you question and clarify.
 
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"could feel like a roller coaster I suppose", made me chuckle, Callingcrane :rofl: That's what I said to my friend last week! I tend to be on a pretty even keel, so that pattern you so rightly spoke to of cycles that go from one extreme (if one can call it that) to another takes some getting used to as spectator. It seems to be a bit part of his personality, but mostly all the stuff he's having to deal with these days. I can understand the overload and needing to "chill", but learning yoga, meditation or breathing exercises might be more effective in the long run for him.
 

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While I like hex 1 and 32 in general, 1.1 and 1.6 still leave me a bit non-plussed. Maybe I don't like dragons :) and I can't see where repentance in line 6 would fit in. If you or others can help me make sense of that, that would be great.

When I get three moving lines, I only read the middle one as relevant to my question. I have learned to do this over the years. I notice that Alfred Huang in his The Complete I Ching also suggests this strategy for three moving lines. So, in my view, you need only concern yourself with 1.5, not the other two.
:)
 

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Hi Ginnie,

Didn't know that, thank you :) Especially in a case like this one, where the middle changing line feels friendly and the other two don't :D

What about when one has 4 changing lines? I read somewhere (where where??) that in that case one should consider the top non-changing line, is that correct?
 

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Yes, that is what Alfred Huang says on page 17 of The Complete I Ching. Consult the upper of the two nonmoving lines. Yet sometimes I regard the moving lines as if they are happening sequentially, one after the other, starting from the bottom and moving upward. Sometimes it makes sense to interpret that way.
:)
 

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