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I ... find it useful as an adjunct to the other translations as it has a number of standard questions relating to love, finances, lawsuits, etc and you can get answers to whether the outcome is fortunate or not.
Each hexagram has the primary an nuclear trigrams mentioned and a short description of the Hexagram. Below that is "the fortune" and 19 other categories of questions.As your query seems to only fit "the fortune", here is the response for hexagram 15: "safe and sound, everything will go as hoped". Under "wish" we get: "Selfish, narrow -minded, and ungenereous conduct will bring failure. Treat others with sincerity when performing an action and accomplishment will be yours".It doesn't talk about changing lines. So one sees the initial and final hexagrams and if needed one looks at the hexagram formed from the nuclear trigrams (lines 2,34 and 3,4,5) of the initial hexagram.The result is Hexagram 62. I'll attach pictures as i don't have time to type everything.Thanks Ricardo. I'm wondering, if I were to get line 15.4 in a reading (oh, say about cleaning my house - my perpetual endevour and quest!) how does this book interpret this line? What does it say about it? (If it's long, just a sample will do.) Regards, David.
Ricardoribeiro, thanks for sharing this. After looking at the pages you sent photos of, I find myself wanting to offer a bit of caution about this version of the I Ching.Each hexagram has the primary an nuclear trigrams mentioned and a short description of the Hexagram. Below that is "the fortune" and 19 other categories of questions
Yes, sometimes these 'commentary-based' books are a good adjunct to help us wrap our heads around the text and imagery- as long as we don't rely on them too heavily. And this is especially true for a book that doesn't give us the text at all, like this one! You don't want to let this book's version of what the Yi means replace your own understanding. So, proceed with caution. (Some would frown on using them at all, but I'm not that strict with myself.)Thanks David. I use the Richard Wilhelm translation and The Complete I- Ching to understand the hexagrams and i occasionally use the Pocket I-Ching in addition to the two.
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