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hilary

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A little light relief here to sharpen your divinatory wits...

If you've been watching the first round at Wimbledon like a hawk, you'll already know what happened next. (For the rest of the world: Wimbledon is a tennis championships over here in the UK!)

Well, I turned on towards the end of the fourth set of a match between Nicholas Lapenti, number 22 seed, and Jamie Delgado, nowhere near his standard. Lapenti was supposed to walk through to round 2. And for the first two sets, all had gone by the book - Lapenti walked it. Then he had match points in the third set (it's best of 5) - but had seized up suddenly, apparently with an attack of nerves. Delgado won the set. Then Lapenti played uselessly throughout the fourth set, and Delgado capitalised neatly, and won it. The commentators pointed out everything Lapenti did wrong and basically wrote him off.

Into the fifth and deciding set. It goes with serve... the commentators talk about how much better Delgado is playing than in the first two sets, how flat-footed Lapenti looks, and (after a while) how Delgado is just a couple of games from going through. He could win if he breaks Lapenti's serve... doesn't manage that, but no-one would expect it. Then he starts serving for the match.

At this point I opened my local copy of this site's online I Ching reading. Totally frivolous, not a sensible or worthy use of the oracle, I know, and no reason why it should give accurate answers. But I clicked the button anyway.

What comes next for Delgado? Answer: Hexagram 30 changing to 18
What comes next for Lapenti? Answer: Hexagram 24, unchanging.

By this stage the score in that game was 40:15, ie Delgado had two match points.

What happened next?
 

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Oh my, hee hee...

I guess it comes down to choosing between the second and the fourth changing line... I'll say that D, having blazed up, flared away, died down, and lost, while L returned to his Tao and won. It would be too funny if this is right, and he won on the 7th game. Although of course in this interpretation, it means that D's surge had it's roots in something that had been building for a time, and, at least for him, still has further implications yet to play out. Hmmm...

I will hazard the guess that they both ran to and fro, moved to the center, and returned...now I can't wait to go find out what really happened! Fun exercise!
 

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A sport invented by the English and almost invariably won by the Americans.

Sorry, that may not narrow it down much
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Try looking up Venus and Serena Williams, when you're feeling brave.

Willow - well, I won't comment, because we don't want to post the answer and spoil other people's fun, do we? But thanks for 'playing'!
 
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In a nutshell, it seems that Delgado's inital spurt of energy and strength burns out and dies and the difficulties he runs into towards the end allows Lapenti to make a comeback and win the game.

How'd I do?
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Ok Ok

Delgado recognized that he couldn't go willy-nilly and decided to limit the field of focus on what he knew he had to do to win. He worked on what he had spoiled through inertia and indifference and got down to business.

Lapenti had succeeded in turning the trend of the game around, but lost the match. Its still a turning point in his career. He's become more understanding of his potential, will turn inward to work on his game and will return again to Wimbledon next year with more experience and greater confidence.

BTW, are they male or female?
 
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heck I don't know! *chuckles* Can our next quiz be on fishing, a sport I know a little something about? hee hee
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This was fun but I'm afraid I'm at a slight disadvatage here.. match point?
 

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So I found out the answer (will leave to Hilary to reveal!), and decided to ask a slightly irreverent question myself:

To the I - why does a silly game like this seem to work?

Answer: #42 (Increase), changing @ 5th to #27 (Providing Nourishment)

5th: "If in truth you have a kind heart, ask not."

BTW Hilary, the Hex shown on your website's #42 page is a typo (web-o?)! It's got a repeat of #41 on there. (but the trigram names next to it are correct)
 
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dharma

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Willow you asked I - why does a silly game like this seem to work?

The Answer you received: #42 (Increase), changing @ 5th to #27 (Providing Nourishment)

5th: "If in truth you have a kind heart, ask not."

This answer seems to be refering to what we, as the participants, gain in terms of practice and of exercising our skills at interpreting when we don't know the answer. When we do know the answer, we don't ask.

However, I'd like to add: (that) all oracle systems are based on the premise of synchronicity. The idea behind synchronicity is that each microcosm in the universe contains the macrocosm and like a hologram, the entire universe is found at every point in creation, so that all manner of questions can be asked and even silly games like this will work. Universal Mind is open to All.
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My own feeling is that oracles work by grace - so the silly games don't have to work. I don't feel as if I have a right to expect them to - and I know that sometimes they don't.

This one did though - by grace and sheer universal generosity - #42 makes me think of 'my cup overflows'. The kind of answer that leaves me grinning all over my face at this lovely oracle!


WARNING: ANSWER FOLLOWS!

Oh yes - Lapenti recovered, returned to life, and Delgado's unexpected surge did indeed turn out to have been a flash in the pan. If I remember rightly, Lapenti won every game from then on, and the match.

This was such pure hexagram 24: Lapenti was definitely at rock bottom at the moment of the divination, a few points away from going out of the tournament. The other reading was trickier - I suppose we have to assume that the first two lines had already happened?

Um, how would you start divining about fishing??
 

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Greetings To All....

This was a very interesting excercsise. I enjoyed it all.
 
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Good question.

In the states, we have fishing tournaments; bass mostly. I've done the circuit for a few years before moving to the desert. Thing is, I know darn well that while Yi would have provided the right attitude for the process and the tournament?s eventual outcome, I doubt it would have affected how many fish I weighed in at the end of the day. But with Yi, who knows?

(BTW, all fish were kept in approved aerated 'live wells'. Great lengths are taken to insure their healthy release.)

I think 42 was a wonderful answer also!

hmmm I live in Reno, a gambling city... if I ask...

naaaa
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