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Can anyone read more into this? Specifically how the format is written for the last advise, "pair?"
Perhaps context of my thought is valid, but I just don't know how to interperet it
Hexagram 23, Stripping Away
Key Questions
What has worn out?
Is there a less painful way to let this go?
What is underneath the surface?
Oracle
‘Stripping away.
Fruitless to have a direction to go.’
The surfaces are cut and sliced away; the old and unviable is stripped back to expose the living core. This inevitable, natural process often feels like a flaying: the more you have invested of yourself in these old things, the more painful it will be.
It’s no good, at such times, to imagine the future and make plans. You need to bring your energy back to the centre and honour the process: this is a time to be transformed, not to act. Moreover, until the old is so utterly stripped from you that you have no choice but to think in new ways, you will only be able to re-create the old patterns.
Image
‘Mountain rests on the earth: Stripping Away.
The heights are generous, and there are tranquil homes below.’
Sequence
Stripping Away follows from Hexagram 22, Beauty:
‘Involved in brightening the appearance; this means success will be truly exhausted, and so Stripping Away follows.’
Pair
Stripping Away forms a pair with Hexagram 24, Returning:
‘Stripping away: rotten. Returning: turnaround.’
Text excerpted from Hilary Barrett’s I Ching: walking your path, creating your future, © Hilary Barrett 2010.
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Perhaps context of my thought is valid, but I just don't know how to interperet it
Hexagram 23, Stripping Away
Key Questions
What has worn out?
Is there a less painful way to let this go?
What is underneath the surface?
Oracle
‘Stripping away.
Fruitless to have a direction to go.’
The surfaces are cut and sliced away; the old and unviable is stripped back to expose the living core. This inevitable, natural process often feels like a flaying: the more you have invested of yourself in these old things, the more painful it will be.
It’s no good, at such times, to imagine the future and make plans. You need to bring your energy back to the centre and honour the process: this is a time to be transformed, not to act. Moreover, until the old is so utterly stripped from you that you have no choice but to think in new ways, you will only be able to re-create the old patterns.
Image
‘Mountain rests on the earth: Stripping Away.
The heights are generous, and there are tranquil homes below.’
Sequence
Stripping Away follows from Hexagram 22, Beauty:
‘Involved in brightening the appearance; this means success will be truly exhausted, and so Stripping Away follows.’
Pair
Stripping Away forms a pair with Hexagram 24, Returning:
‘Stripping away: rotten. Returning: turnaround.’
Text excerpted from Hilary Barrett’s I Ching: walking your path, creating your future, © Hilary Barrett 2010.
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