Hexagram 38 unchanging

[suzie43]

Not sure if this is the right place to post this question but I am sure smeone will redirect me if it's not. Anyway here is the question. During the past year my husband and I sold our country home and moved to a condominium. We agreed that we needed to do this as we are getting past all the work the 18 acre property took to maintain. It was a challenging journey including that the purchasers of our property were not able to complete on time which of course depayed our condo purchase. There followed what we thought would be 2 months of renovations which predictably turned into 4. We stayed with family through all this. Now we are in our new home and it is lovely. But there is the ongoing challenge of finding a new community not to mention the chemist the butcher and the supermarket.
So I asked Yi "What do I learn from this past year?" 38 unchanging. Is this about being careful? About working through opposition? Is it about how opposition is a learning experience? Is that the learning? Please let me know what you think.

 

[meng]

You've learned to hold onto yourself in the face of countervailing forces.

 

[gene]

suzie

The commentary here says, "one should limit oneself to producing gradual effects in small matters." The situation is such that big things can not be done in one sweeping moment. One must limit oneself to doing things that are key, and by doing small things they eventually build up to big things. You must take it one step at a time.

Secondly, one must learn how to resolve differences, (not just with other people, but with situations and even within the self) by uniting opposites. This takes time and does not come quickly, but is necessary in order to "reorder" our world. You must find not only where the opposition lies, but the root cause of it, and quietly going about removing resistances, while all the time being "true to yourself." Obstructions are useful for learning how to deal with various and multiple situations, and give us experience in life.

Finally, one must not try to do things by force. One must be calm and yet firm within, maintaining in the midst of all difficulties one's own personality and character, and at the same time allowing others to maintain THEIR own character. In lines one through four the person allows the situation to be, even to the point of not going after that which they have lost, and only in line five is action actually taken, when the time for action has come. We must accept other people and situations the way they are, not trying to change them, but allowing things to work out the way they should, until the way out is shown to us. It ultimately involves changing ourselves, not so much others. When we do that, we not only allow the horse to come back on its own, but we meet our "Lord" (our destiny and path to follow) in a narrow street; that is, by accident. When we "dwell amongst difficulties as if they did not exist" (hexagram forty three line two) we allow the universe to do its work and find that "fate is favorable." It is not that we do not do our part, but that we simply work on the little things that are not beyond our control, until we finally have a much greater control.

Gene

 

[ginnie]

Echoing what Meng said, above, the 38 unchanging indicates that you held firm to your own goals even though others were acting at cross-purposes to you.

 

[innerevolution]

I pulled this hexagram and my question was about doing my crystal readings, and my favorite part of the i ching reading is how to learn from a blockage of energy and interpret its gift. For example, I ask a lot about waiting for the bus and the answer is often to make peace within, with family members: the wait is like an energy blockage.

Knowing whether to do a reading is up to the questioner, the I ching has me making paintings and drawing as I wait