Reading for 2014

[cornucopia63]

Hello Everyone I had to register again as I had forgotten my old password.

I don't know if you can ask the I Ching about what the new year will bring.
I asked what should I focus on in 2014 to have a successful year?
I received Hexagram 15 line 1 changing into hexagram 36.

Now I have to say I find hexagram 36 abit frightening. I don't know if I should see it negative as in injury damaged a negative year and to persevere in adversity..hold on to the light sort of thing or positive as in falling in love.

I had also asked what is in store for me in 2014 and hexagram 50 lines 1 and 3 changing to hexagram 36 came up. It was a bit unnerving to get hex 36 twice.

I'm seeing it from a subjective perspective of being a negative year maybe. I've had some negative stuff going on so I'm influenced with that. Please I would appreciate an objective view on this. :bows:

 

[boyler]

... just a note that this kind of question is traditionally saved for the winter solstice ... when the new year begins ...

 

[sooo]

Two words come to mind: authenticity and blending, rather than pretentious and flashy. Your glow and shine occur within, and that can't help but show outwardly, but not as though you try and draw attention to yourself. Your inner works shows outwardly, and that should aid you with your 2014 goals.

If you do a work, let the work do your speaking, and not your words about your work. Making something difficult to achieve appear easy is a hallmark of genuine achievement.

 

[rosada]

Agreeing with Sooo but I also think boyler has a point here.
As the first line describes conditions before we get into a situation, 15.1 - 36 could be seen as advising you that you are taking on too much to be trying to fathom 2014 yet - your light/clarity can't shine that far ahead - keep your aim more "modest" and focus on the here and now.

fyi 50.1.3 - 38 (not 36)

 

[sooo]

whoa... then blending becomes opposing - which would mean individuality is the emphasis, not hiding light or blending in. That's practically the opposite of what I first said, except the authenticity part.

Based on the change to 38, I'd say you're in for some light, and you appear real enough to handle it.

But these are only our interpretations, remember. Possibilities to aid you in sorting it out, or make it more confusing. chuckle

 

[rosada]

Okay, looking at this a little deeper...
Yeah, it's an interesting pair of questions/answers.

What should I focus on in 2014?
15.1 - 36
Don't try to take a whole lot of considerations into account now in 2013 - don't try to be all knowing, let many things pass and persevere.

What's in store in 2014?
50.1.3 - 38
An opportunity to attain a position where you can prove yourself and gain recognition - it may be hard at first but if you have something real to contribute a time is bound to come when the difficulties will be resolved and all will go well - This may result in you separating from friends so remember to retain your individuality now.

So together it appears to me these two readings are pointing to some significant changes in 2014, Maybe something like being in a situation now that doesn't appear to offer much and no inkling of how things might improve so no guidance as to what to focus on now - however it sounds like 2014 will bring some opportunity for utilizing one's true talents but it might require a move or job change and thus the advice not to get too committed to current friends and co-workers.

I hope you'll let us know!

 

[cornucopia63]

Thank you so much everyone for taking the time to help me!!! You helped put my mind at ease. 2014 is an important year for me. I considered hexagram 36 and 38 as negative and was starting to think I would have a negative year.

Rosada you hit it on the spot! It's like you know my situation. I'm planning for both a home move and career change. Everything you said is true.

Sooo thank you for your reply. Yes individuality is my goal and what you mention is what I would like to focus on.

To give a better picture of my situation. I'm unhappy with my living conditions I am isolated and far and the building is not up to my standards. I also have a crazy addict neighbour who parties all the time and I have no peace. I'm looking into moving in an area and building somewhere more suitable for me. I'm also looking into making a serious career change and I'll have to go back to university and get another degree for that to happen. I also want to change my social circle. I want to find a new group of people of like mind who have the power and influence to help me advance in life.

For hex 15 line 1 into hex 36 I found my notes. The exact question was: What should I focus on in 2014 to have a successful year?

 

[cornucopia63]

Rosada your quote below is what is my desire and what I'm aiming for. I wonder is the I Ching picking up on my subconscious or actual events.

"it sounds like 2014 will bring some opportunity for utilizing one's true talents but it might require a move or job change."

 

[sooo]

You must forgive me, my low pulse causes confusion, and I got the two readings mixed up, though they're related. This paragraph helped clear things up too:

To give a better picture of my situation. I'm unhappy with my living conditions I am isolated and far and the building is not up to my standards. I also have a crazy addict neighbour who parties all the time and I have no peace. I'm looking into moving in an area and building somewhere more suitable for me. I'm also looking into making a serious career change and I'll have to go back to university and get another degree for that to happen. I also want to change my social circle. I want to find a new group of people of like mind who have the power and influence to help me advance in life.

That statement includes elements of 38: breaking away, finding your identity, being true to yourself, and of course dealing with opposing forces. But, crossing over to the other question, it encompasses a bigger picture in the image of 50; strong elements of refinement. Finishing school, using the fine stone to hone. School, experience, and time is of the essence. At least that's what I'm feeling from you. I think an element of 36 reveals itself here, and that stream may run in more than one direction. Forces dimming your light go back to opposition. It is dimmed from within and without. But opposition is what literally grows us and keeps us strong, otherwise we'd work out with helium balloons. No, we just wouldn't work out. (ow!)

Seem like sound goals to me.

 

[cornucopia63]

hex 38 and hex 36

I've studied this and I don't understand how you got a positive reading out of it. Hex 38 means separation and lonliness. Hex 36 means depression a negative dark hexagram. The worst in the I Ching.

Judging from the reading I see 2014 as a year of negative events leading to depression lonliness and separation. Can someone give another perspective or explanation to this reading please?

 

[Trojina]

I've studied this and I don't understand how you got a positive reading out of it. Hex 38 means separation and lonliness. Hex 36 means depression a negative dark hexagram. The worst in the I Ching.

Judging from the reading I see 2014 as a year of negative events leading to depression lonliness and separation. Can someone give another perspective or explanation to this reading please?

If you are going to frame it all in terms of 'negative' and 'positive' you may as well not do a yearly reading or cast the I Ching at all as others just have to come along and reassure you.

As it goes I don't believe in yearly readings.....a reading will not start on one date and end on another.

If you think 38 means only separation and lonliness you haven't looked around this forum much. If you think 36 means depression you haven't read around the forum much.

So just read around. Each year people want comfort on their yearly readings....to the point I wonder why on earth they do them.

Here's a thread on the whole pos/neg thing

http://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/friends/showthread.php?8682-Positive-and-Negative-Hexagrams

 

[sooo]

38 is neither good nor bad, it is simply having an opposing view of something or someone else. To find ones true individual nature, they must oppose certain natures and opinions of others. Even to make a trend, you must defy another trend.

36 is neither good nor bad, it simply is your inner light being protected from the outer potential harmful elements, or to light the darkness within.

I don't have much confidence in these long term predictions, though they sometimes can provide some general indications. Life is just too complex to sum up an entire year, especially to narrow it down to good or bad.

 

[rosada]

Because your question is so broad perhaps the I Ching can only give you a meaningful answer in similarly broad terms. Thus, perhaps in getting 36 you are simply being advised to not let the outer world distract you from your own inner knowingness - stay in your lane and you wont get lost no matter how heavy the traffic.

Likewise 38 comments on the importance of not getting pulled off one's course by the presence of others.

btw, I've found the Image tends to give the guidance for how to navigate the situation the Judgement describes. If you inject the word "therefore" between the Judgement and the Image you'll see my point (If you're using Wilhelm) Hexagram 36 would read "In adversity it furthers one to be persevering [therefore] by Darkening his Light thus does the superior man live with the great mass. He veils his light, yet still shines."

38. would read "In small matters good fortune. [Therefore] amid all fellowship the superior man retrains his individuality."

Rosada

 

[cornucopia63]

If you are going to frame it all in terms of 'negative' and 'positive' you may as well not do a yearly reading or cast the I Ching at all as others just have to come along and reassure you.

As it goes I don't believe in yearly readings.....a reading will not start on one date and end on another.

If you think 38 means only separation and lonliness you haven't looked around this forum much. If you think 36 means depression you haven't read around the forum much.

So just read around. Each year people want comfort on their yearly readings....to the point I wonder why on earth they do them.

Here's a thread on the whole pos/neg thing

http://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/friends/showthread.php?8682-Positive-and-Negative-Hexagrams

Thank you Trojan this link helped! When I read it I noticed I had seen it before and forgot about it. Bradford's explanation cleared it up for me.

 

[cornucopia63]

Thank you Rosada and Sooo

 

[cornucopia63]

Positive and Negative Hexagrams



The title of this tread is a trap.
I hear this phrase so many times on so many different threads that to set the question right each time would be like playing whack-a-mole. It seems to come up at least once a week.
It's my thesis that as long as someone is locked into thinking of any Gua as inherently positive or negative they will NEVER understand the Yijing. The Yi itself tries to explain this in a number of places - Gua 12 is an opportunity to be rid of inferior influences, Gua 41 is a chance to learn the skills of economy and thrift that will make you truly rich when the times turn around, Gua 39 is a chance to look sideways from linear thinking and goal-seeking behavior, Gua 05 learns to live in the moment and maximize the meantime. And so on.
Crowley put it this way: Imagine listening to a Beethoven concerto with the presupostition that C is a bad note and F is a good one. You would clearly miss the music.
Good hexagrams vs bad hexagrams is just shallow thinking that completely misses the multidimensional richness of understanding that the Yi has to offer. And somebody's going to read this and still ask the same stupid question next week. "Is Hexagram 15 always bad?"
One way to get out of the habit is to start asking the question "What is the upside of this?" when you think you have a "bad" reading, and just as importantly, "What is the downside of this?" when you think you have a good one. The same goes for the lines. It helps a lot to think of every line as representing a choice of attitudes, not a literal prediction, but a recommended posture that is often implied by the depiction of an inferior posture. So if the character in the line is in trouble and getting his nose cut off, remember that your question is about where you are going and don't go there.

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I wanted to post this for others who get into a negative funk about a reading... THANK YOU ALL :bows:

 

[Trojina]

I'd like to use this thread as part of my anti yearly reading campaign in change circle, in my blog there.

Mainly because early in the thread the reading just freaks you out and yearly readings do freak a lot of people out..


If you would rather I didn't, tell me and I will delete the link to your reading. I am only linking to illustrate what yearly readings can do to people....and how people always need reassurance about them.

Unless they get 42.2 or something...