Clarity,
Office 17622,
PO Box 6945,
London.
W1A 6US
United Kingdom
Phone/ Voicemail:
+44 (0)20 3287 3053 (UK)
+1 (561) 459-4758 (US).
I recently asked the I-Ching about a business venture I recently entered into. It returned Hexagram 14.
I suppose what I'm really saying is that before you can evaluate whether what it says can be taken literally, you need an in-depth understanding of what it's saying .
Hello all. Please excuse what may be an overly basic question from a beginner. But my question is should the I-Ching be taken literally as an oracle or is it meant to be more poetic and inspiring. I recently asked the I-Ching about a business venture I recently entered into. It returned Hexagram 14. Ta Yu / Possession in Great Measure. Is the I-Ching predicting that because of the business venture i will receive great material wealth?
I try to first take it literarily rather than literally -
to get the core or gestalt of the metaphor first
and interpret from there. But then it's often only
a single word or number that you need to see in
the text and your "answer" really has nothing to do
with what the text actually means.
That is interesting !!!
It has happened to me too. You get a reading, you have changing lines , relating hexagram,etc, etc but you can’t concentrate on them because there are a word or two words that blink like neon lights and looks like an answer.
Those times feels like the whole combination of lines and hexagrams we get is just because they bear those words. Still not sure if that approach is correct, so I try to see texts literally and metaphorically just in case I oversee something.
Brad, in those cases, do you "ingore" the hexagrams and lines and keep the words or not ?
Maria
My two cents is that you can't take the reading literally because YOU are supplying the interpretation! The way I see it is that the hexagrams provide a mirror of you internal, unconcious state; giving you an opportunity to get a glimpse of how you really feel about it.
I find that when my mind is all balled up about something and I'm just not getting anywhere, the I Ching is a way of teasing apart a few strings in the Gordian Knot called my brain.
...and could you give us an example of what you mean by 'a single number'?
Seventy virgins. Oh, wrong book.
In other words, it ain't really paradise - it's the other place.
That's seventy-two virgins. What they don't tell the martyrs is that they are all sworn to remain virgins.
Clarity,
Office 17622,
PO Box 6945,
London.
W1A 6US
United Kingdom
Phone/ Voicemail:
+44 (0)20 3287 3053 (UK)
+1 (561) 459-4758 (US).