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The King Wen meaning of hexagram 44 is the final stage of plastromancy -- the inscription of the plastron. The woman, fish, rump, pig, horns, melon and willow -- these are responses by the Duke of Zhou to the visual appearance of the hexagram.
In another thread Pocossin says:
I have been contemplating this comment in terms of the trigrams. The lower trigram is Sun or Xun, wind, wood, penetrating, the gentle, the oldest daughter, etc. The upper trigram is Ch'ien or Qian, heaven, the creative, the father, etc.
So in the final stage of plastromancy, Heaven Penetrates the turtle shell? Could Hexagram 44 be called "Heaven Penetrating"?
It seems to me that the inscription of a plastron is not a momentary coupling that is not meant to last. It seem like a moment when something becomes set in shell.
Or if one considers the lower trigram to be "wood" in the context of H 44 --- then it seems heaven's pronouncement on the question becomes "rooted" in the final stage of plastromancy. Again, this does not seem like a coupling that will not last.
Where does the idea of "momentary, not meant to last" come in relation to Hexagram 44?
corrections or comments of/on the above welcome...
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