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News of Johnson becoming the next PM has surfaced. We are still living in the time of balancing between nationalism and patriarchy.

What will Johnson's time as PM be like? 21.1 Biting Through to 35 Advancement
Line 1 says, "Shoes locked in the stocks, feet disappear – not a mistake." Does this be interpreted as he is getting things done, especially Brexit?
 

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How do you get "Shoes locked in stocks, feet disappear - not a mistake" as meaning getting things done? I would read this as meaning he is unable to move forward.
 

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Rosada, I interpret the changing lines literally. I thought hex 35 meant moving forward. When you said unable to move forward, was the "feet disappear" part a vital clue?
 

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There's been a lot of debate about the significance of the second hexagram. Some people see it as meaning the future and thus getting 35. as the relating hexagram would seem to be saying that he would "advance" his agenda. However some people see the second hexagram as describing the surrounding circumstances and thus one might read 21.1 - 35 as meaning in his efforts to Advance Johnson will be held back (21.1) or at least initially held back.. But either way, yes, the "feet disappear" is a vital clue. Indeed, some find the change lines are the most significant part of a reading.
 

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Perhaps it means he will be able to 21. Bite Through all the political chit chat to get to the real the obstacles that have been blocking 35.Progress.
 

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(Disclaimer: I'm not sure of the usefulness of readings about politics - given that receiving this reading makes no difference to anyone, is there any reason why Yi would answer? How sure can we be that this reading is about Boris Johnson at all? But then again, I've been known to enjoy readings about tennis matches, just for the sake of learning about the reading with hindsight, so why shouldn't it be possible to use politics in the same way?)

Exactly as Rosada said, it all depends on how you interpret the structure of a reading. If it's primary hexagram, then moving line(s), then resulting hexagram, then this reads as, 'Once he's Bitten Through the obstacles, then he'll Advance.'

Except that you do also have to account for the moving line somehow, and that says,

'Shoes locked in the stocks, feet disappear.
Not a mistake.'

...and someone with their feet locked in the stocks can't Advance, no matter how much they want to, or how much confidence and 'can-do' spirit they exude.

I'm not quite sure what options the interpreter has at this point. Perhaps you say that if you get through your punishment in the stocks without mistake, then later you'll be able to Advance?

That would be logical enough; the problem I have with it is that there's no necessary connection between changing line and resulting hexagram. You could complete that sentence with more or less any other hexagram, and it would fit just as well. ('Endure your punishment in the stocks without mistake, then later you... will still not be across/ will be across/ will be able to make a small crossing/ will have inner truth/ will know measure / will disperse obstacles / will have joy... ' etc, etc.) I think the Yi has more internal coherence than that.

If instead you read 35 as a relating hexagram, then the picture changes. This is 'Biting Through zhi Advancing': the advancing of biting through, what kind of advance is implicit in biting through, or just how biting through advances.

Pausing to consider just what each hexagram is...

'Biting through, creating success.
Fruitful to use legal proceedings.'

Biting through obstacles to create success, using legal proceedings, ie structure designed to get to the truth. Getting from ineffective to effective - the teeth meeting cleanly - with determination and persistence.

'Advancing, Prince Kang used a gift of horses to breed a multitude.
In the course of a day, he mated them three times.'

Taking the gift you're given, the reward you received, and really making the most of it.

Pausing again to see what I can recognise in all this. Well, [url="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-49102495"[/url]here is Johnson's first speech as PM. Lots about 'high hearts and growing confidence' and being 'fully determined at last to take advantage of Brexit'. It all sounds very, very much like Hexagram 35: seize the day, take full advantage of your time in the sun. (This, incidentally, on what I think may be the UK's hottest day since records began.) The relating hexagram clearly depicts his attitude.

Biting through is clearly what he needs to do. He's promising to bite through obstacles (from the Irish backstop to funding care of the elderly) in this spirit of confident advance.

What will come of this?

'Shoes locked in the stocks, feet disappear.
Not a mistake.'

He will be stuck, unable to get much done, and this is no mistake. That seems very likely indeed. He faces all the same intractable problems his predecessor did: the EU will not renegotiate; Parliament will not accept the deal negotiated. And in the UK, there's no such thing as an 'executive order', nor yet government by referendum; laws have to be passed by Parliament. His government has the thinnest of thin majorities in Parliament, dependent on support from the Ulster Unionists, and vulnerable to rebellion from his own ranks. There is no majority in Parliament for any kind of Brexit deal; the only position that's got a majority is blocking no-deal Brexit. Before he even got the job, people were lining up to promise legal challenges to prevent him from circumventing Parliament on this. His shoes are firmly locked in the stocks.

Only, afaik, even if he gets nothing done at all, we still leave by default on 31st Oct (with no deal, because Parliament hasn't signed up to one). Is that the 'no mistake'? Or is it the case that Brexit will somehow be prevented (not very likely), and that's the 'no mistake'? Either way, it seems Johnson won't have much to do with the outcome. He sits in the stocks and makes sunny speeches about a 'new golden age'. (Yes, apparently he said that, too.)

How is this 21's 35? There's a spectrum of answers, I think. You could say 21 requires a rigorous approach driven by truth; 35 brings a sunny, can-do, 'make hay while the sun shines' approach instead, and that doesn't get it anywhere. You could also say that Biting Through actually begins to Advance only when it encounters reality in an unmissable way - that the stocks are simply real-world politics as opposed to campaigning and journalism. It's not a bad thing for Johnson to encounter some of that, and maybe it'll inspire him to come up with some good ideas...

About 35 as relating hexagram


I find 35 as relating hexagram often represents this Johnson-ish, can-do, seize the day sort of mindset. 'Here's my opportunity!' it says, with supreme confidence, energy and no small amount of glee.

So how often does this mean we can expect Advance to follow in future? Well... here are the 6 single line texts that come with 35 as relating hexagram:

'Shoes locked in the stocks, feet disappear.
Not a mistake.'

'Your wheels dragged back.
Constancy, good fortune.'

'Traveller burns down his resting place
Loses his young helper.
Constancy: danger.'

'Stripping the bed by way of the flesh.
Pitfall.'

'Resting when blocked.
Great person, good fortune.
It is lost, it is lost!
Tie it to the bushy mulberry tree.'

'Enthusiasm in the dark.
Results bring a change of heart,
No mistake.'
 
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Rosada, I interpret the changing lines literally. I thought hex 35 meant moving forward. When you said unable to move forward, was the "feet disappear" part a vital clue?
You say this, but in another thread you said that maybe the Yi's answer - when it didn't seem to agree with your views - was perhaps 'biased' (your word). Also, it seems that you often select just a part of the 'literal' response, which leaves out looking at it in a more complete way, so it's easy to make it read more what you want it to say - Trump is bad, .... etc.

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The UK news headlines currently look a lot like 21.1.
 

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So now would it be reasonable to interpret 21.1-35 as meaning “one is unable to act so things progress as they are”? So a no deal Brexit is inevitable?
 

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I'm not sure what will happen - nor is anyone else - but journalists are actually starting to use the phrase, 'His hands are tied'. Yi's image is more eloquent.
 

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