Lise, can you clarify something for me???

[seeker]

On your site for 19.1.2, both lines say auspicious, but your interpretations do not seem so, unless I am looking at them wrong. The first one especially, as it talks about how making the wrong move can mess up everything. If I am asking a what to do question and get that line, it makes me very hesitant. Or is that the point, is it saying yes, this could be a good move, but only if you think it through carefully???

 

[heylise]

I never think of a line as being auspicious just like that. Imagine trying to keep a child safe. You can say "when you cross over, look carefully to both sides and all will be ok". Or: "if you don't look first to both sides, a car will run you over". The first one sounds like good fortune, the second one like bad fortune, but both are exactly the same advice.
Good and bad fortune depend on your own actions. Yi gives the options, but giving them both is not necessary. One is clear enough.

So it is like you say: "yes, this could be a good move, but only if you think it through carefully". It changes to hex. 7, which is about good organizing. The bottom line, which is the fanyao of 19.1, says, the army marches out according to rules. Not 'almost' right, but entirely right. "Not right, pitfall".

I like hex. 19 a lot. It talks about a way to deal with people which is very ethical. Totally accepting them the way they are, which makes it possible to get really close. Much closer than the kind of love which wants to have, or needs.
In dealing with situations, it means just as well to see them as they are, not changing anything through wishful thinking or fears, but tackling them in the most realistic way possible. Then there is no distance anymore, you are so near to it, that you can act entirely in accord with it.

LiSe

 

[heylise]

Both, 19.1 and 19.2, have the same 'way' of nearing. With affection, or joint (Wilhelm) or finding response (Balkin) or (united in -) commitment (Bradford): many different ways to translate xian, which is also the name of hexagram 31.

LiSe

 

[seeker]

Thanks so much for taking the time to answer, that clears up a lot.