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Is This a Good Fit? Hexagram 16>45

yxeli

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I asked the Oracle with view to a relationship 'Is this a good fit?'

It answered with 16 - Enthusiasm.

I looked around for different translations of this, and found the 'Oracle-Of-Love' Site;

Art weaves a web of enchantment.
Remember yourself.

The hexagram describes an artful projection of imagination into a show that is larger than life and therefore very seductive. This is the power of theatre and art to create an artificial reality to which an audience will willingly surrender.

There are benefits to participating in such artificiality, not least of which is the enjoyment of splendours beyond those of everyday experience. And a great artist can lead an audience into a disclosure of deep truth and self-knowledge.

However, there is a danger that awareness of the pretence can be lost and the audience assumes the make-believe for reality, or they fail to return to their normal sensibilities after the show. There is even greater danger that the enchantment will enthuse people to real-life action when it is used as propaganda or advertising. It is necessary to balance the joy of being carried away with alertness to the possibility of being manipulated.

We are particularly foolish when we believe the false realities that we ourselves project and subsequently bear the load of having false expectations from real life. We need to be able to step back from our own fantasies and those of others.

The hexagram can also be seen as a parable for the material world as theatre, and that we have lost awareness of our spiritual reality. Our challenge in this theatre is to remember who we are while continuing to be dazzled by the show.

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This was very intriguing to me, the man and I are both artists, and it was a web of enchantment that we weaved, but it was too much for us, the illusion began to take over, and I think we have lost the way.

There was one changing line, Line 5

''Be aware of the puppet master.
Give your head but not your heart. ''

Which i think is very wise counsel under the intoxicating circumstances of the hexagram.

It then moved to Hexagram 45, Gathering

Which is a very spiritual hexagram I think, and its speaks directly to what we initially found attractive in one another, a shared spirituality, although in this instance I don't know if the Yi is talking in a broader sense, as in if we fit together in social gatherings, etc.

Thank you for your input!

Yx
 

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With view to a relationship 'Is this a good fit?'
16.5 > 45


The fifth line is not auspicious.

Six in the fifth place means:
Persistently ill, and still does not die.

Bradford has

Persistent affliction
Chronic but not fatal

Apparently there is a potential for a good fit, but the medicine to make it work hasn't been found -- perhaps more sharing of spirituality. The ideas in the Oracle of Love seem to be derived from the Image.
 
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More than I would expect from an 'Oracle-Of-Love' site. I like their poetic rendition of 16.

About 45... first, I typically cringe at the word 'spiritual', because it's so widely and nebulously used. I don't like it even when I use it, but sometimes there's just no other word for 'it'. I summarize 45 in my head as "get it together". That may be spiritually, socially, professionally-financially, physically, mentally, emotionally, or any or all of the above.

Let's say that a piece of earth is moved to allow water from a stream to flow into a low lying area. That forms a lake. What flows into the lake includes every element that was in the stream. It doesn't filter or discriminate, it just draws it in by virtue of its emptiness. So one must be prepared to deal with those elements when they gather in the lake.

Applied to your question, you get the whole package, for better and for worse. But that's always how relationships are.
 

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in this case.... i see the fifth line of 16 as a behavioral disease type.
something like that give some trouble... that let you think about all the possible meaning of it/them.... but all the rest is working well.
the illnes is fed by your continue focussing on it... if you let it vent like a cold... from alone... all will be good. you need to focus on common goal.
 

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