Hexagram with 5 changing lines and many doubts

[freimuth]

I have written - as an aside from my run-o'-the-mill office work - a book, which I have circulated among a few friends. Virtually all of them have expressed appreciative or very appreciative comments (and of course a few criticisms). This is a book in which I have literally poured my heart and therefore it is very dear to me - regardess of what its merits can be.
A friend of mine, who knows a publisher, has proposed that I get the book published (he has done this with others as well). Initially, I was enthusiastic about the idea of having my book published, but then second thoughts started to creep in. While I think some people may genuinely appreciate my book and perhaps find it helpful in some ways, on the other hand I am not sure whether I really want to feel exposed - as I said, it's very personal. In addition, I also fear that thoughts of unhealthy self-gratification could take hold of me, and that would be very sad, because the book is based, among other things, on hard-won honesty and to publish it with the hidden thought of getting "public recognition" would be really a denial of the spirit of the book.
I have therefore sought the Yi for council and obtained "19.1.3.4.5.6" turning to "44". I have very seldom got a hexagram with so many changing lines and this renders for me particularly challenging its interpretation (experience has taught me that with multiple changing lines all of them count). Also, it seems to me that multiple changing lines point per se to complex / emotionally charged subjects, not infrequently with contradictory aspects. I'm not sure whether I can figure out well the meaning of this and its related hexagram, but my gut feeling would be to put the project on hold and to get ahead only if I were really convinced to do so in good faith. Any comment or advice on the above hexagram would be very useful to me to help clarify my mind. Thank you.

 

[Trojina]

I don't think an answer with many change lines carries any more weight, emotionally or otherwise than any other answer. Certainly the relating hexagram comes more to the fore with all that change towards it.
With many moving lines one does not need to place so much emphasis on each line and it's a good idea to start with to 'zoom out' and see the sentence the hexagrams make, here Nearing's Coming to Meet...hmm immediately it gives the impression of something forceful arriving possibly blotting out sensibility somewhat rather like a like cloud shadow chasing over a field.

And of course the change patterns are worth considering which here are 13 and 7. So when you came to the question the underlying tension you approached with was community/project and as these are opposites it's like you can't have one without the other. There is no army (7) without people(13) and there are no groups or communities (13) without arrangement (7). So the question is one of the community nd the goal, the audience and the focus or the point of it. The book won't be for everyone obviously so the question is one of target (7) audience/group (13). I see the change patterns in what you say here

I have written - as an aside from my run-o'-the-mill office work - a book, which I have circulated among a few friends.

So the book, your project was spread among some people and your question is whether to publish and go beyond those people although you haven't told us your exact question

I have therefore sought the Yi for council and obtained "19.1.3.4.5.6" turning to "44".

I presume this is general council for whether publishing is a good idea? I wouldn't have thought so is the brief answer to that. Why ? My sense of it is based on the immediate impression of that cloud sweeping over (44) the field, I sense it as a kind of shadowing over. Indeed 19 can be felt being overseen, generally in a good way but this with the 44 looks a bit too much like being overseen in a more overbearing way.

I'm not very inclined to look at each line as I think too much focus on those might miss the point. But you do have line 3 which says however sweet this looks don't eat it. The other lines are all about grades of coming near to oneself. I think this cast is all about this person's approach to you. Another impression coming is of a field mouse with a hawk hovering overhead and casting shadow (if hawks do that no idea). Again your words reflect that picture

on the other hand I am not sure whether I really want to feel exposed

This isn't what I'd generally be inclined to say since the offer to publish seems a good opportunity surely but this feels more like someone possibly putting undue pressure or influence on you to do that.

That's my first impression but one could see it the other way around I guess, that this is a bold (44) kind of 'nearing'..hmmm however marriage, full joining is not advised in 44 BUT some might say this is a kind of fertilisation. Something quite forceful and outside of your usual realm enters in, draws near to fertilise, oversee or direct.

I think overall I see this as a caution not to just go ahead with suggestions there's just a bit too much of 'I can look after this for you' kind of feel whereby you lose some control somehow.

, but my gut feeling would be to put the project on hold and to get ahead only if I were really convinced to do so in good faith.

Yes I think your gut may be right.

While it seems like passing up an opportunity, who wouldn't want to get their book published, you've written it so share it, OTOH here I just get this sense of too much overshadowing and it would be better if you decided when and where it was published rather than sort of be swept up in this offer or swept along with it before you're ready.

 

[my_key]

I have therefore sought the Yi for council and obtained "19.1.3.4.5.6" turning to "44".

Approaching through Encountering

Through 'delivering your commands' (44) you'll then be able to see the way the patterns unfold and so be better able to learn from and welcome the situations that approach you (19).

Good Luck

 

[freimuth]

I don't think an answer with many change lines carries any more weight, emotionally or otherwise than any other answer. Certainly the relating hexagram comes more to the fore with all that change towards it.
With many moving lines one does not need to place so much emphasis on each line and it's a good idea to start with to 'zoom out' and see the sentence the hexagrams make, here Nearing's Coming to Meet...hmm immediately it gives the impression of something forceful arriving possibly blotting out sensibility somewhat rather like a like cloud shadow chasing over a field.

And of course the change patterns are worth considering which here are 13 and 7. So when you came to the question the underlying tension you approached with was community/project and as these are opposites it's like you can't have one without the other. There is no army (7) without people(13) and there are no groups or communities (13) without arrangement (7). So the question is one of the community nd the goal, the audience and the focus or the point of it. The book won't be for everyone obviously so the question is one of target (7) audience/group (13). I see the change patterns in what you say here


So the book, your project was spread among some people and your question is whether to publish and go beyond those people although you haven't told us your exact question



I presume this is general council for whether publishing is a good idea? I wouldn't have thought so is the brief answer to that. Why ? My sense of it is based on the immediate impression of that cloud sweeping over (44) the field, I sense it as a kind of shadowing over. Indeed 19 can be felt being overseen, generally in a good way but this with the 44 looks a bit too much like being overseen in a more overbearing way.

I'm not very inclined to look at each line as I think too much focus on those might miss the point. But you do have line 3 which says however sweet this looks don't eat it. The other lines are all about grades of coming near to oneself. I think this cast is all about this person's approach to you. Another impression coming is of a field mouse with a hawk hovering overhead and casting shadow (if hawks do that no idea). Again your words reflect that picture




This isn't what I'd generally be inclined to say since the offer to publish seems a good opportunity surely but this feels more like someone possibly putting undue pressure or influence on you to do that.

That's my first impression but one could see it the other way around I guess, that this is a bold (44) kind of 'nearing'..hmmm however marriage, full joining is not advised in 44 BUT some might say this is a kind of fertilisation. Something quite forceful and outside of your usual realm enters in, draws near to fertilise, oversee or direct.

I think overall I see this as a caution not to just go ahead with suggestions there's just a bit too much of 'I can look after this for you' kind of feel whereby you lose some control somehow.


Yes I think your gut may be right.

While it seems like passing up an opportunity, who wouldn't want to get their book published, you've written it so share it, OTOH here I just get this sense of too much overshadowing and it would be better if you decided when and where it was published rather than sort of be swept up in this offer or swept along with it before you're ready.

Many thanks Trojina, I found your comments very valuable.

 

[freimuth]

Approaching through Encountering

Through 'delivering your commands' (44) you'll then be able to see the way the patterns unfold and so be better able to learn from and welcome the situations that approach you (19).

Good Luck

Thank you, this waiting for the pattern to unfold seems to apply neatly to the situation.

 

[freimuth]

you haven't told us your exact question

The exact question was: should I publish (on a large scale) the book or not? I wonder however if the Yi is taking a somewhat larger approach and telling me "Yes, the book is dear to you, but its content (a history of depression overcome through constant meditation) is something that you should not allow to overwhelm yourself again ("44"). In this regard, it may suggest that I do not cling to ("marry") the past, but rather take a different approach of understanding it with some degree of detachment. But it's no more than an educated guess.