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Hexagram 52 + Line 5 = Hexagram 53

troubledwater

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Hi,

My wife was diagnosed with a serious mental illness that may requires intensive psychological treatment.

I asked the I Ching about one of the possible therapists "Please comment on the engagement of So and so for the treatment of my wife".

I think hexagram 52 tells me to stop. This therapist will not work well with my wife. However,I do not understand the meaning of line 5 at all and the resulting Hexagram that seems promises slow but constant progress.


Please someone help me please!!!
 

dobro p

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52.5 isn't a bad line - it talks about how making speech calm and still says things better. It's like good advice in a particular situation rather than giving you a valuation of a course of action. It's not telling you to stop; it's telling you to say less, or to express yourself in a way that is calm and still.

The thing is, I have no idea how it applies to the question of whether or not to engage the therapist.
 

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Troubledwater,

First let me say that in all cases of early psychological treatment begins in establishing bounderies, limits, and trust. Most of the time the patient, to find a way to have someone agree with them, and when they do not they (the paient) create a unfavorable repore with those that are tring to help her. Now if the Therapist is not qualified to deal with your wife's condition then that is a whole new ball game. But I believe that the therapist is ok by what you have recieved from Kua 52. So I'll tell you my opinion of your reading.

Kua 52: Take one day at a time. Fine inner tranquillity so that your wife will find stabibility within you. Kua 52 also teaches that you must make both your activity and your rest in harmony with the needs of the situation and the demands of the time. You need to recognize that time has come to be still so that you can regain your balance and find peace, this way you no longer feel the pain of the demands pressing on you from the outside and the urgency from the inside. Focus your attention on what is before you, try to take each day as it comes responding to circumstances as they arise.

Line 5: Talk sparingly, learn to keep your mouth closed and speak only after you have put your thoughts in order. {This is most important when dealing with your wife and the ways that the sessions went}.

Kua 53: Health for wife will develop gradually. Calmness, balance growth, and gentle, slow persistence are characteristics necessary for your wife to have a gradual development. You need to have faithfulness, patience, and endurance. As your wife will look for your stabability. There is promise of future success, but you must allow the situation to develop gradually in order to realize it.

Now please understand that this is my opinion and is not medical advise or written in stone, Things change that is why we need to have faith in the Sage of the I-Ching.

My Blessings and good wishes be with you and your family.

Papa Jack
 

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