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Hex 26. In various guises

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butterfly spider

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This is not a hexagram that I understand
Recently I asked here about what I do over the next little while and got 26.23.
Yesterday after a dreadful evening of anger and resentment between 2 family members I asked how I should deal with the situation (ex husband and eldest daughter - he was grotesquely unpleasant. I got 26.5
Today I asked What next? How so I move forward on this - I got 26.1356 to 29.

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More I am reading Bradfords commentary and thinking the more confused I am getting. I asked on this thread before as the answer did not make sense and it still doesn't.

If anyone has any thoughts I would be grateful. I am really not seeing this at all
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butterfly spider

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I have re read my journal and castings from over 40 years
I have looked at other threads from 26
I am still no wiser on this

Sometimes I cansee things quite clearly but here I am in a great muddle
I would just like some direction on this

Tonight was much better - things more controlled but somehow hex 26 is around
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What I do over the next little while? 26.2.3 → 27
.2 Nothing to do at the moment
.3 find yourself a hobby (Bonsai? 26.2 → 22.3 (taking care of a beard, dew, undemanding, little details → 27 ) to keep your mind from obsessing over this situation.
h27 look at your thoughts, look at what your mind is 'eating'.

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How I should deal with the situation? 26.5 →9
.5 Prevent it from happening again, or just you don't have to deal with it. It's their path. Accept it.
h26 and h9 both are blocked in some way, storing up energy.

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What next? How so I move forward on this? 26.1.3.5.6 → 29
26 - 29.png

Richmond:
26.1. Danger is about. We should halt our activities.
The danger comes from our not being aware of the wider nature of our circumstances (lines 2 and 6 being yang).
The tao is about allowing the inner forces to flow as they will, and here the greater activity of the life force may cause us to think we can move (there is some pressure for personal activity).

18.3. The child deals with the actions of the father. There is some regret but no great error.

We have to regret what we are in order to want to change it but this does not necessarily mean that there is error.
The old outer activity had ceased and now here is the new in which our identity manifests; changing our outer mode is only carried out when we think the old is inferior and can be improved (the old mode is the father's). We spend our time making things "better" and this means that we are always seeing ourselves as in some way in error.

4.5. Immature experience brings advantage.

In this tao our intuitive state is not active. Our identity is more free to experience its life if it does not worry about this at this time because it needs to face its experience outwardly. This line shows us free to experience as separate identity, which is what the tao asks for.

59.6. Scattering his blood. Keeping at a distance. No error.

Blood is the life flow, the nourishing medium of our inner life which enables the separate parts to maintain themselves. To scatter this is to dissipate the established pattern of ourself or to keep it at a distance from our ability to be. It is to flow simply with the life force rather than with our own pattern of flow.
Accepting dispersal in our inner being is the scattering of our ongoing self, the realization that this is not necessary to being.


See?
Let the situation take it's place. Let the child deal with it.
Stop seeing yourself as a guilty party.
Accept, allow, don't over-mother :)
 
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butterfly spider

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The problem here is that the over mothering is with my ex husband too
I always try and make things better
I always try to pile in and help

This is so entrenched that is why I find it difficult to interpret
Choosing perhaps what to notice
I am only human

Thank you for your reply. It is really appreciated. I have found this a very hard thread to solve myself
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butterfly spider

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Just looked back at another request and for a similar scenario got 26.4
Pocoasin said

Do nothing in an oppressive situation

Seems like I am being told something .....

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butterfly spider

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Update on this
I like line 26.6
However the rest of hex 26 always feels a bit like I should know something that I am not seeing quite

I cast 26.2 4 today for an issue to do with a house sale and looking back on this thread and Ashteroids excellent help last time feel that I need to somehow untangle myself from
The emotional aspects if the house sale - as if I have my horns entangled and need to stand back and look at things clearly it changes to 30 Clarity - which indeed needs to happen
The issue of the family is also a bit like horns in a tangle
Too. Maybe time to move home ..
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Hi Butterfy spider, I appreciate the compliments :)

Maybe transitional hexagram will help to understand the reading better
26.2 → 22 and then
22.4 → 30 (Shining), Wilhelm:
Grace or simplicity?
A white horse comes as if on wings.
He is not a robber, He will woo at the right time.


Daniels: Simple virtue is better than foolish glamour.
I don't know what the issue is, but the advice is to be on the lower, simpler side of things.

Other line is
26.2 → 22 (Adornment), Daniels: You cannot progress. Conserve your efforts.
and 26.4 has the same feeling - restrain the wildforce, try to redirect it in some way.
 
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From my experience, 26 is often about a person who has the upper hand.
In general the lines advise on how to deal with power games, I believe.
E.g. line 5 speaks of how one needs to really put their foot down and castrate that bullying 'pig'!

I cast 26.2 4 today for an issue to do with a house sale


How did you phrase your question exactly?
The answer speaks of separation/divorce/disentangling, plus protecting what is yours.
(In a nutshell - but there could be many other hues, depending on how you phrased your question).
 
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If I sold my house would all just be ok was the question
 

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After reading both 26.2 and 22.4 I felt confused.
Former speaks of stopping all movement, while the latter one says sell and your life will be simple again.
But then I discarded the comments and just switched on my imagination.

26.2 → 22 (Adornment), Wilhelm: The axletrees are taken from the wagon.

22.4 → 30 (Shining), Wilhelm:
Grace or simplicity? A white horse comes as if on wings.
He is not a robber, He will woo at the right time.


You get rid of that wagon, removing the axles, leaving it to stay in one place. Let another one use it, and then a white-winged horse comes to fly you away into the Sun. Isn't that great?
Pegasus for a clunky old wagon - nice :)
 
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butterfly spider

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Oh - am glad you are confused. You are always so Unconfused in my opinion. No wonder I was having difficulty. All the readings recently are so confusing. Lines say danger then good fortune back to danger. One today in 4 lines went from good fortune to danger to crossing the great river back to danger. It is like even the I Ching is having difficulty here

Went to a family constellations day and the poor guy running it said that he just had no idea about my constellation as nothing was as it should be it was all confusing.

Sometimes it needs some imagination to figure it all out

Thank you Ashteroid you make perfect sense
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If I sold my house would all just be ok
26.2.4 > 30


Well, I'm also a bit confused now! :D

26.2
The carriage gets loose.
"Horse and carriage" often means "couple", so, 'disentangled carriage' often means separation.
Here it could mean:
a) that moving house will help you break free from divorce memories
b) that selling the house (if it is jointly owned) will disentangle you further from the ex
c) that it will not be possible, for some reason, to sell and move (carriage not going anywhere).

26.4
A young bull in a stall / in a limited place, very auspicious. Possibilities:
a) does any of your children own a house you could go to?
b) a child wants to stay in the same place where you currently live
c) find a new place, even if it's smaller

30 = look after what's yours and what sustains you.

The overall image is of a great beast and taming it (26), and you manage it,
and you're left with a nice tame cow (30)! So overall it sounds very positive to me.

I really can't make any solid conclusion here because there seem to be too many details involved.
Only you know all the details, so only you can take your pick of possible meanings.
(PS - perhaps not a great time to take such a decision right now - Mercury is retrograde!)
 
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butterfly spider

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Thank you so much. - yes all three points you make are pertinent and a child does want to stay in the place I live. A smaller place would be fine and I own another house elsewhere that they could go to. - it's all very complicated and confusing. Perhaps that is why I am having difficulty - even the poor I Ching is finding it hard
Centuries of energies cannot work through the confusion let alone poor little me. Perhaps I should just stay at home and make cakes. ...

Anyway it does feel like Mercuey is retrograde so perhaps leave it a while to let things balance a bit

Thank you for the insight. I so like hex 26 though there is a confusion with it hat I find quite nurturing !!!
 

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Hexagram 26 in various guises.
26,2,3-27 26,5-9 26,1,2,5,6-39

When the Yi throws the same hexagram at you in various situations, like this, it often indicates that you need to integrate the essential qualities of that hexagram within your psyche. Something within your psychological framework is asking for attention and growth. Hex 26 comprises of the upward thrust of Ch'ien meeting the downward restraint of Ken, internally there is a strong urge to intervene and confront the situations you are meeting but the Yi is urging you to apply the utmost restraint to this urge. Ken is the most restrictive of the yin trigrams and the Yi is telling you that this is not an appropriate time for you to engage these situations directly. To do so might well incur unforeseen hardship for others within the situation.

If you can restrain yourself completely, without making a single comment or holding and feeding any thoughts or feelings on the issue (the practice of 'no-mind') you will give others the time, the space, and the freedom to confront their own faults and mistakes and remedy them. If you confront others directly you will face an immediate mountain of opposition which will only force others into being more and more determined in their wrongdoing. If you can gradually acquire the sublime restraint of 'no-mind' you will "attain the way of heaven" - 26,6 - Wilhelm.

The application of 'no-mind' is a goal that requires patience, clarity and determination. When you become unsure of your progress, turn to the I Ching. You will find it invaluable.
 
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butterfly spider

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Thank you so much
It is odd how hex 26 keeps returning. In a thread about our favourite
Line Ashteroid and I put down 26.6. I like hex 26 possibly because it is possibly is a bit confusing

I keep getting castings that convey that I am in a cavern (47) or otherwise entangled. Perhaps I should be 26 like and today I got Waiting leading to confining. Patience is needed. Actually I think this is on a psychological rather than physical level actually. I am in an impass situation where anything I do tends to cause issues one way or another.

Not that wheat I try to do is wrong but it is quite energetic. I am like that. I tend to pile in and try and help.

My daughter asked today if she should actively try and change or alter her life. She got stillness - she almost cried with delight and said - Mum this is so what I need right now -

Thank you for your insight. I will try and move towards 26.6 and strive for moving to hex 27
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