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Hi everyone,
I have studied the book "The Astrology of I Ching" from the author W.K. Chu and edited by W.A. Sherrill.
I calculated my natal hexagram (62) and this year it will change into later heaven hexagram number 21.
I read the explanations od the hexagram 21 in some I Ching books but I am a little confused.
Can someone explain the simple meaning of hexagram 21 to me?
thank you,
Boris
Thanks for the link, Svenrus. I downloaded the program and put in my data, but obviously I don't know what it's doing and it all seems very complicated. Whether I spend enough time on it to understand it is a good question. (It won't be today, at the very least.) Have you found it helpful? Would you be willing to tell us what you've learned from it and so forth?
Trojina, you make a good point ("A book of changes is not a book of staying the same," etc.) And I'm not sure about the value of elaborate schemes of correspondences between systems (e.g. I Ching and astrology, I Ching and tarot), rather than just using each system for its own strengths. There are commonalities and overlaps (e.g. hexagram 51 and the Tower card in tarot, maybe), but there are bound to be because all of these systems are describing human traits and human experience. Correspondences might help to flesh something out, maybe?
I've never been very disciplined about daily or weekly readings. Mostly out of laziness, also because I had some experiences with daily readings where they scared me for what seemed like no good reason. I figure I have enough to worry about already. Or, at the end of a day, the defining moment didn't seem to be related to the reading I'd gotten.
.HOWEVER, readings can be so nuanced and work in so many different ways, and maybe I haven't given these enough of a chance? Made-up example - suppose I had a car accident, and my reading for the day did not obviously scream car crash or tell me not to leave the house. My first reaction might be to wonder why the I Ching hadn't warned me. But maybe what it did tell me, if I'd taken it to heart in the right way (whatever that might be), could have helped me go through the day in a way which would have prevented the crash? Not sure
.Natal hexagram therefore has nothing to do with I Ching divination method we all use in specific situation because it is part of one branch of chinese astrology
I read the book and it took me quite some time to calculate my natal hexagram.
As I understood from the book there are 10 different kinds of energies from Heaven and 12 different kind of energies from Earth. A specific combination of those two groups of energies is present at the moment of one's birth
I often do daily casts, but take them quite lightly.
I would never let a daily cast stop me leaving the house
Well...if I got 60.1
"Not going out of the door and the courtyard
Is without blame." (Wilhelm)
I think I'd at least ask a follow-up to try to see if Yi meant it literally
I mean, sometimes Yi does actually mean the literal thing it's saying, doesn't it? If I got that line as as daily reading, and ignored it, and ended up in the hospital...I mean, the only conclusion to draw is that Yi did warn me. If I was somehow "meant" to end up in the hospital, would Yi circumvent that so directly? (I realize this is a whole can of worms...if someone does a reading about killing someone, and somehow they were or were not "meant" to kill that person, what would Yi tell them, etc. etc. etc.)
So you're saying if I cast 60.1 on a day I had to work or meet a friend or do some errands then I'd need to consider not going out ??? If I started doing that I'd be limiting my life by handing my agency over to an imagined authority. Not the way to use Yi. If I had these things to do I would do them, possibly quietly, within my own sphere.
but really it would be absurd not to go out one day when you wanted to because you thought 60.1 meant you'd go to hospital It could mean so many things.
Apart from anything else in the overall picture of one's life some accidents may be helpful in some way...not bad. We don't feel that but we don't always see the whole picture.
What if Yi really did want to deliver a message to stay at home, or some other very direct instruction? How could it say that, so that you would accept that message?
Well, yes, but that's not what we're talking about.
Clarity,
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London.
W1A 6US
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