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Mountains or Potholes? A request for perspective.

phatoz

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This is my first post to the forum, I've been a lurker as I consume and digest what I can and when I can. It's very slow work as the meal is very rich and diverse with a feast of nuances to savor.

This year I experienced the trials and tribulations of Hexagram 47, and think I have come through the 'other side', and am now moving forward with my life plans.

There are some circumstances surrounding me that are coming emerging, beyond my control, which threaten to 'steal' [steal is probably not the correct description here as much as divert could be easily used but I see it as a theft so use the word steal] my attention and time away from what I really want, and feel is the best for me to be doing at this moment of time.

So seeking the best advice I could think of I consulted the I Ching the following:

Q1: Is there anything I should know about my immediate situation?
22.1.6 Making Beautiful > 15 Integrity

Q2: What to be aware of?
32.3.4 Persevering > 7 The Army

The next day - repeated images/words Unite. Upon revisiting the Integrity reading music was playing in the background and the female singing the song had a chorus with words containing 'Unite'. Hilary has stated in her writings that: "The core of the Chinese word for 'humility' or 'integrity' is uniting, in the sense not of merging into one, but of holding two things closely together."

Sensing that The Mystery was trying to tell me something of great importance (over and over and over - sometimes I can be quite dim) and just not seeing my 'nose so clearly on my face' I asked the following:

Q: Please advise on some vitally important role it seems I am playing.
16, Enthusiasm - no moving lines

I think I have a pretty good idea of the meaning here. And I am dreading that the outcome will require me to unite the [seemingly] conflicting circumstances with enthusiasm and grace/humility without being swept away by one or the other. I feel as though my capacity for balancing these two circumstances is at odds with my constitution and abilities to cope with the juggling act that will be required in the near future. Or am I make a mountain out of a mole hill?

But would like more perspective, some times the forest is difficult to see due to all the trees.

I will appreciate hearing [reading] what anyone else has to say about these readings.

Thanks
Zoe
 

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phatoz, are you asking about a role in clarity? Then that is the perspective.
 

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Hex. 22 has a lot to do with energy. It is about beauty, but the universal base of beauty is energy and health. What we experience as beauty is what is in balance and from which its inherent vitality comes shining through.

Lines 1 and 6 are the two most basic aspects of this energy. Line 1 about just being and doing what you really are. No artificial add-ons, no tools, no help. Just you and your own power of life. This line changes to 52, stability.

Line 6 is about energy which has no form (yet), the essence of energy. It changes to 36, the darkened light. But the fan-yao, the corresponding line in 36, is interesting. It is about the sun which goes down only to come back again in all its brightness for a new clean day. Going down is the condition for finding the energy to rise again, and again, and again. Nobody can shine incessantly, you need the dark times of renewal. So 22.6 also has to do with keeping this energy alive and strong. Whatever you do with it, make sure you don't exhaust it, and find ways to replenish it.

Hex.15 is indeed about uniting, but also about being the one who unites-with. You can unite if you are your part of it without trying to be all, but having the modesty to acknowledge what the other brings in. That can be a person but not necessarily. Everything which makes you ‘whole’ needs your acceptance and gratitude.

I hope this is not too vague, you will have to fill the facts in yourself.

LiSe
 
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meng

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Zoe, everything looks perfect from here. So I'll go with potholes. Your natural energy is more than good enough to meet this situation.
 

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Q1: Is there anything I should know about my immediate situation?
22.1.6

To resist taking shortcuts in your affairs, do things thoroughly in a simple down to earth fashion, be modest in all your undertakings in the situation that you find yourself in at present.
 

phatoz

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Thank you everyone for your responses. Especially those that provided further information for specific hexes and lines - as this was the type of information I was after.

The forest has come into focus.
 

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