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cmackta

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I am a little confused. Could you help me?

Below was the answer I've received:

May question: Should I go back?

Your reading resulted in the following hexagrams:

changing to
15 2
Hexagram 15, Integrity



Key Questions

What is the simple reality?
How might you return to a state of balance?
What if it didn’t all depend on you?

Oracle

‘Integrity creates success.
A noble one completes it.’

To experience Integrity is like coming face to face with your real self – plain, simple and unadorned. To have Integrity is to be whole, at one with yourself and with reality. It means being honest about your own capacities, holding yourself in creative balance with your world and not exaggerating the importance of your role.

These qualities enable the noble one to bring whatever work presents itself to completion. Since she is not overly full of herself, she has space for the real world; she isn’t hampered by an excess or by a lack of confidence. Since she isn’t caught up in a personal story, and doesn’t identify her work with her worth, she is free to do what needs to be done and move on.

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‘In the centre of the earth there is a mountain: Integrity.
A noble one reduces what is too much and increases what is diminished.
Weighing things up to even out their distribution.’

Sequence

Integrity follows from Hexagram 14, Great Possession:
‘Great possession means being incapable of arrogance, and so Integrity follows.’

Pair

Integrity forms a pair with Hexagram 16, Enthusiasm:
‘Integrity takes itself lightly; Enthusiasm is careless.’

Changing Lines

Line 3

‘Toiling with integrity,
A noble one completes it.
Good fortune.’


Hexagram 2, Earth



Key Questions

How are you being guided?
How can you lend your strength?

Oracle

‘Earth.
From the source, creating success.
The constancy of a mare bears fruit.
A noble one has a direction to go.
At first, confusion. Later, gains a master.
Fruitful in the southwest, gaining partners.
In the northeast, losing partners.
Peaceful constancy brings good fortune.’

Earth is first described in the same words as the Creative Force of Hexagram 1 because they are partners in the flow of creation. Creation unfolds from the original vital energy, creating success with an ongoing exchange between spirit and daily work, flowing through to fruition – in Earth, through the constancy of a mare.

The mare is strong, tireless and incomparably fast, and she is acutely sensitive to the subtlest cues. When you have a mare’s constancy, you will be steadily loyal to the truth, and always alert and responsive to guidance.

The noble one has a direction to go: she is purposeful, she has a destination in mind, but this doesn’t mean she has her route to it already mapped out. And so at first there is confusion: you set out like a pioneer, open to all the possibilities, and find them as many as scattered rice-grains. But later, since you have set yourself in motion, you can receive guidance – you ‘gain a master’.

A master is someone who lights the way. You gain someone or something to be loyal to, where you can find fulfilment in service. Once you have this guiding principle (which may or may not be a person), you begin to follow signs as fluently as the mare.

The Zhou people sought out allies in the southwest before venturing into the northeast to face the Shang. There is a balance to be found between joining with like-minded people and following your own calling alone – but gaining allies comes first. Perhaps your individual sense of purpose emerges more strongly when you’ve learned to work responsively with others, like the mare running with the herd.

And when you can spread your senses out to roam southwest and northeast without limit, you will be peacefully at home in the whole earth.

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‘Power of the land: Earth.
A noble one, with generous character, carries all the beings.’
 

moss elk

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Hi,

You got hexagram 15, line 3
(It's good to put that somewhere near the top of the post,
Makes it easier for people who may want to help)

Going home seems to be a good idea.
 
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Endless

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Hi cmakta !
How pertinent this line seems to me to the topic of your question !
There's no place like home , Dorothy said after a long journey in Oz land !
I liked her story very much ^_^
Hope you well,
Endless
 
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sooo

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While "Integrity" works well here, I often think hexagrams would be better without a title. They limit the implications, especially if we place too much weight on their meanings. 15 can imply a number of things, all belonging to the same general idea. LiSe uses "give and take". Modesty has often been shot down as a correct meaning for 15, but there's nothing wrong with modesty, legitimacy, making something difficult look easy (though that would make a rather long name). If I had to choose a name, which I wouldn't, it would be 'equalizing extremes'.

Secondly: though it's tempting to ask if we should do this or that, I think it's the wrong approach, because very often there is no should, there are only different outcomes from different choices. One way is to present different possibilities, such as 'what if I take this path?" or, 'that path?' I usually ask very general questions, like "about this?", and then choose my own path, considering Yi's council.

So, for instance, if you asked, "What about going home?" 15 would suggest a balance, putting pride and humility in balance, being at ease with being there, following through with your purpose, not allowing fear or timidity to inhibit you. 15.3 changes to 2, which is an open hexagram, letting fate guide you, going the distance, making the effort, not forcing anything or anyone. Not surprisingly, your line 3 offers the same guidance.
 

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