Reading the Hexagram on its own, without the text

[dharmamom]

@Charly and Dharmamon: Thanks I note it down and it is good to know there is a next level when I feel ready for it.

Hey Dharmamom: Grützi My Grandmother was swiss. So actually I know the Bodensee and your fantastic chocolate. Enjoy it, I`m a bit envious, because you live in a great country with great chocolate, especially great chocolate

Sorry for the late answer to your comment, forty two. I have not been around for a long while.
I've lived in Switzerland for fourteen years, but in fact I'm Argentinian, like Charly. My husband and son are Swiss, and it's true it's a beautiful country and the chocolate is great! Grützi to you too.

 

[forty two]

Hi Dharmamom, thanks for your respons. Better late than never Say Hello to your husband and your son from me. I guess you can talk Swiss after 14 years, do you?
best wishes Yvonne

 

[dharmamom]

Hi, forty two!
Again late for my answer. Yes, after fourteen years, I can understand Swiss German very well, but speak it mostly as a joke, when I want to make my husband and son roll with laughter. Since my husband's Spanish is perfect, Spanish is the official language at home. French is the second, since my husband's family stems from Yverdon.
That aside, I find the thread most enlightening. Got lost on how members engaged from discussing interpretation of hexagrams into a gender sparring and (yet again, oh my) a religious debate, though.
To address the former, I personally like to figure out the trigrams first, the elements relationship, the pertinence of each line, and the characteristics of each trigram (e.g: colours, health, persons, seasons).
Then I read the text, which invariably adds more light to the reading.
As to the latter part of the debate, to me Yin and Yang, the Creative and the Receptive, are elemental principles, forces, beyond any reference to gender.
I let the sinologues speak, but I suspect the misogynistic streak in the Yi is mostly a Confucian addenda, though the Chinese Society has been forever patriarchal. But I'm not bothered by it. The only thing that does not change is change, so one moment yin is uppermost, another it's yang. One could not exist without the other.
That said, I live in a household where I am the only woman. I have a husband, a son and an old-school macho man misogynistic father-in-law in the periphery (though thankfully far enough from our home). And at least in my case, the quotation "Behind every great man, there is a great woman," applies. Not that I consider myself a great woman, but without doubt, I am the real tower of strenght around here. I can't imagine any man I know going through the pains of labor with the dignity of us women and from a psychological standpoint, I find we women are more resilient than men. There is a nurturing quality about the feminine primal principle that sustains the masculine. Meng and Charly pointed that out very well. But, then, this is my personal two-pence and my English today is awful. Sorry!