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autumn said:This morning, her teacher had an incident report waiting for me that the afternoon teacher had forgotten. In fact, she had been in a fight with another baby over a toy. She didn't tell me who started the fight, though.
sparhawk said:A two pronged approach to her safety: 1. she would have a chance to consult the Yi about her playmates; 2. she can swing the coins over her head and keep angry playmates at bay...
autumn said:In fact, she had been in a fight with another baby over a toy. She didn't tell me who started the fight, though.
autumn said:After she went to bed I asked the I-ching what had happened to my baby. The answer:
10.2.3. (13)
The answer was about what did happen, so 13 becomes the backdrop, or setting. This happened among her peers. Hexagram 10 refers to the active elements of the context, and is about social order and behavior.
hilary said:Ugh?
Erm, no, not in the least bit familiar. What is the figure/ground idea in Gestalt? What's Gestalt?
rosada said:I always thought the term Gestalt meant The Whole Exeprience which might be different from the particulars thus, "The funeral was meant to be very peaceful, but just as they were saying the final prayer's a fire alarm went off so the actual Gestalt was very unsettling."
dobro said:You're probably right. I've never studied it. But somebody once described the figure/ground thing to me and if that's what Hilary sees as the primary/relating relationship, I'll look into it some more.
autumn said:Gestalt is German for 'whole'. It is a Psychology of perception. It studies the whole perceptive experience without de-constructing thought. It's very interesting. You know those black and white pictures where one image fades into the other? Those come from Gestalt Psychology.
martin said:Figure-ground is one of these laws: our perceptual Gestalts are organized in such a way that some parts are perceived as belonging to a figure or figures (foreground) while other parts are perceived as belonging to the (back)ground.
hilary said:It doesn't quite seem to want to fit whichever way round I look at it. The relating hexagram's a 'background', but in the sense of providing a personal context. It's often the first part of a reading someone can recognise and identify with - and from what you good people have written, that doesn't sound like 'ground'.
Maybe the 'problem' is that personal perspective and attention shifts within a reading so much. Eventually the lines would become 'figure' and the whole framework described by both hexagrams would become 'ground'.
dobro said:Okay, so if that's the case, then which is figure and ground when you look at primary and relating hexagram? Or does the figure/ground idea not apply to your understanding of Yi hexes?
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