reading of the next days 44.1>1

[diidii]

I usually take daily or weekly readings and asked "what will happen?" hexagram 44.1> 1 seems to me such a frightening reading can you help me understand what line 1 means and what does hexagram 44 have to do with it? usually hexagram 44 talks about sexual intercourse I don't understand how it can be applied to my question

 

[Freedda]

First off, I often think the I Ching's responses can be about what we need or are able to hear, and not necessarily an answer to our specific question. I also think it often (perhaps most often) gives us advice, or something to consider, and not so much a prediction of future events.

So, if you're asking what the 'crystal ball Yi' has in store for you over the next few days, I don't have a clue. If, on the other hand, if you want some opinions (mine) about what this casting is telling or advising you ....

44 is named Dissipation, and my image for it is of a gust of wind - which we might think of as providing direction or is communicating something to us - is blown up into the heavens, so whatever direction, advice, communication it might be offering is now scattered or dissipated. So, that's one idea.

There is also the idea of dissipation being necessary, as in a plant scattering it's seeds, so I might think, what idea or belief do I have that may need to be 'scattered' a bit? (or perhaps broken apart or dispersed?)

With the oracle's words, I don't see this as being about sex (unless you're question was about that in the first place?). However, one idea I get here is that people and things - even powerful ones - can have a place in our lives, but that doesn't mean we always need to marry them (and nor do we always need to define them in terms of just one kind of realationship).

For example, you may have a beautiful, powerful person in your life - maybe even one whom you have been intimate with, but that might not necessarily mean you should marry that person. Or, you have a guru whom is wise and teaches you many things, but does that mean that you should let them control your life? So, again, maybe an idea you might try to applying to your day-to-day life over the next few days.

The line offers yet another perspective: that sometimes instead of letting dissipation run it's course, we instead dig in our heals and try to stop things from changing - like a pig might dig into it's pen regardless of how muddy and messy it is. So, again, are there instances where you are digging into your own position, when you might want to consider just letting things go their own way - and see what happens?

The final movement from 44 to 1 could be a reminder - and maybe one that's in contrast to the advice already given: that sometimes to pick one direction, to piegon-hole a person, ot become fixed in our thinking is not the best direction to take; that instead, sometimes we should think more broadly, more openly, and then from there narrow down our options.

Or maybe there's something else here as well. Best, D.

 

[diidii]

First off, I often think the I Ching's responses can be about what we need or are able to hear, and not necessarily an answer to our specific question. I also think it often (perhaps most often) gives us advice, or something to consider, and not so much a prediction of future events.

So, if you're asking what the 'crystal ball Yi' has in store for you over the next few days, I don't have a clue. If, on the other hand, if you want some opinions (mine) about what this casting is telling or advising you ....

44 is named Dissipation, and my image for it is of a gust of wind - which we might think of as providing direction or is communicating something to us - is blown up into the heavens, so whatever direction, advice, communication it might be offering is now scattered or dissipated. So, that's one idea.

There is also the idea of dissipation being necessary, as in a plant scattering it's seeds, so I might think, what idea or belief do I have that may need to be 'scattered' a bit? (or perhaps broken apart or dispersed?)

With the oracle's words, I don't see this as being about sex (unless you're question was about that in the first place?). However, one idea I get here is that people and things - even powerful ones - can have a place in our lives, but that doesn't mean we always need to marry them (and nor do we always need to define them in terms of just one kind of realationship).

For example, you may have a beautiful, powerful person in your life - maybe even one whom you have been intimate with, but that might not necessarily mean you should marry that person. Or, you have a guru whom is wise and teaches you many things, but does that mean that you should let them control your life? So, again, maybe an idea you might try to applying to your day-to-day life over the next few days.

The line offers yet another perspective: that sometimes instead of letting dissipation run it's course, we instead dig in our heals and try to stop things from changing - like a pig might dig into it's pen regardless of how muddy and messy it is. So, again, are there instances where you are digging into your own position, when you might want to consider just letting things go their own way - and see what happens?

The final movement from 44 to 1 could be a reminder - and maybe one that's in contrast to the advice already given: that sometimes to pick one direction, to piegon-hole a person, ot become fixed in our thinking is not the best direction to take; that instead, sometimes we should think more broadly, more openly, and then from there narrow down our options.

Or maybe there's something else here as well. Best, D.

perhaps in the sense of taking life in a different way? not seeing alone or all white or all black but also considering the thousand facets? forgive me if sometimes I can't follow you I'm so new to this. do you think the lean pig can also mean not to feed negativity? do not fatten the pig = do not feed your negative feelings? thank you D

 

[diidii]

First off, I often think the I Ching's responses can be about what we need or are able to hear, and not necessarily an answer to our specific question. I also think it often (perhaps most often) gives us advice, or something to consider, and not so much a prediction of future events.

So, if you're asking what the 'crystal ball Yi' has in store for you over the next few days, I don't have a clue. If, on the other hand, if you want some opinions (mine) about what this casting is telling or advising you ....

44 is named Dissipation, and my image for it is of a gust of wind - which we might think of as providing direction or is communicating something to us - is blown up into the heavens, so whatever direction, advice, communication it might be offering is now scattered or dissipated. So, that's one idea.

There is also the idea of dissipation being necessary, as in a plant scattering it's seeds, so I might think, what idea or belief do I have that may need to be 'scattered' a bit? (or perhaps broken apart or dispersed?)

With the oracle's words, I don't see this as being about sex (unless you're question was about that in the first place?). However, one idea I get here is that people and things - even powerful ones - can have a place in our lives, but that doesn't mean we always need to marry them (and nor do we always need to define them in terms of just one kind of realationship).

For example, you may have a beautiful, powerful person in your life - maybe even one whom you have been intimate with, but that might not necessarily mean you should marry that person. Or, you have a guru whom is wise and teaches you many things, but does that mean that you should let them control your life? So, again, maybe an idea you might try to applying to your day-to-day life over the next few days.

The line offers yet another perspective: that sometimes instead of letting dissipation run it's course, we instead dig in our heals and try to stop things from changing - like a pig might dig into it's pen regardless of how muddy and messy it is. So, again, are there instances where you are digging into your own position, when you might want to consider just letting things go their own way - and see what happens?

The final movement from 44 to 1 could be a reminder - and maybe one that's in contrast to the advice already given: that sometimes to pick one direction, to piegon-hole a person, ot become fixed in our thinking is not the best direction to take; that instead, sometimes we should think more broadly, more openly, and then from there narrow down our options.

Or maybe there's something else here as well. Best, D.

the gusts of wind describes my life a bit in the last period

 

[Freedda]

Well there you go!

 

[diidii]

or maybe it could indicate to me that I will have an unexpected encounter but I don't understand how this can be tied to the tied pig @Freedda

 

[Freedda]

do you think the lean pig can also mean not to feed negativity?

So, diidii, just a reminder - that you may not be aware of becuase you're new here: you don't alway need to quote entire post in your responses, as you've done here. You can instead just respond without quoting, or you can highlight just that part that's relevant (as I did here) and 'reply' to that part. Again, just a gentle tip.

My understanding of 44 and the pig is not so much about good or bad or being negative and positive. It's more an image of what happens when we 'dig in' and resist dissipation, or when we try too hard to keep things solid, as in our own ideas and attitudes.

 

[diidii]

a few weeks ago I had done my usual weekly reading and had given me a hexadecimal 24 a few days later there was the return of a person, so I ask if I have to understand it literally @Freedda

 

[diidii]

La mia comprensione di 44 e del maiale non riguarda tanto il bene o il male o l'essere negativo e positivo. È più un'immagine di ciò che accade quando "scaviamo" e resistiamo alla dissipazione, o quando ci sforziamo troppo per mantenere le cose solide, come nelle nostre idee e attitudini.

I hope it gets better now in the answer I have avoided taking the whole message.
in fact a change of perspective

 

[Freedda]

.... di 44 e del maiale non riguarda tanto il bene o il male o l'essere negativo e positivo. È più un'immagine di ciò che accade quando "scaviamo" ....

I hope it gets better now in the answer .... in fact a change of perspective

... not only a change of perspective, but a change in languages too! But it's Greek to me I'm afraid! or perhaps Italian?