TIMELY RE: Seeking Legal Help - Two Readings, 47.1 & 58.1

[liminalangel]

I'm severely confused by this. After consulting the I Ching about my two top picks for defense attorneys on a first-offense nonviolent case (but a felony, because this is Texas), I got 47.1 for one and 58.1 for the other.

58.1 is the guy my hunch is rooting for, and 47.1 is the guy who made me feel safer during our consultation.

I know that the related hexagram is not necessarily the OUTCOME, here, but may also be understood as the more general aura around the situation. Seems like 47.1 is suggesting that I would on probation...58.1 seemed totally and obviously confirming my intuition to go with the guy who doesn't present himself as well on paper but then transforms into 47.

Feeling caught in a serious riddle, here. Clarity, anyone?

 

[tiziano]

Personally, I would trust your intuition.

I think the relating hex here shows the outer context of your situation. In one case, you are in 47.1 and there's 58 out there, in the other case the opposite.

In 47.1, you are left alone under a bare tree with no possibility to escape in the near future ("three years"). An attorney who behaves like a bare tree, and you have no help from others. Moreover, your truth is not believed. No possibility for real dialog and understanding.
> 58 may mean someone is taking the issue too lightly, and/or this can cause you injury (Dui=vulnerability).

In 58.1, you feel comfortable and assisted by friends (your attorney) you can talk with ("the superior man joins with his friends for discussion and practice").
> 47 may mean here you still feel "caught in a serious riddle", i.e. you still don't have complete trust. Also, you feel that none of the two really fits you and you feel this like being into a trap.
This second reading seems more auspicious, anyway.

I would suggest you to try and do the following: think about your 58.1 attorney, imagine you put yourself into an attitude of complete trust and ask Yi again: "What if I really trust this attorney for my case?"

 

[liminalangel]

Thank you, Tiziano...exactly the kind of insights I came here seeking.

I would suggest you to try and do the following: think about your 58.1 attorney, imagine you put yourself into an attitude of complete trust and ask Yi again: "What if I really trust this attorney for my case?"

I did that! And I got 2.5 > 8. Mooost interesting...I get from 2.5 that I would do well to trust this man, that he is in fact a reliable defendant. I'm curious about the > 8, now. Seems like it might simply be saying that I shouldn't spend too much time on this decision?

I tend to get confused about who exactly the oracle is speaking, in moments like this:

Good fortune is possible. Cast the coins again to discover if you have the qualities needed to lead such a group.

I'm not leading this group here! In fact that's what 2 really seems to make clear: my trust involves yielding to this man and the authority of his experience. ?

 

[liminalangel]

The funny thing is, I got into this mess by not trusting my intuition - I moved my car from one parking spot to another in the daylight and because I didn't have a tree in front of my new spot, never noticed I had a missing headlight.

So yes, I would tend to think this is kind of a lesson in trusting my intuition with nothing else to go off of, and that might be what this > 8 is all about: Don't half-ass your faith. Or something.

 

[tiziano]

This seems most promising.
And yes, I agree with your view on it.
I see 2.5 > 8 as the road from multiplicity to union, like finding a pole of attraction that brings things together around a center (which is what intuition does, and notice that your moving line forms an upper Kan -- i.e., intuition in what is external).
Things are separated and isolated in hex. 2, like broken lines show. Then a ruler appears.
Also, 8 is the hexagram of establishing peace. It's what it refers to, historically: the rulers of the small clans all around the Shang territory (the ones that didn't participate in the battle) had to be convinced that the Zhou had Heaven's mandate to reign, and the Zhou succeeded in beingg accepted by them by showing they were actually relatives to the Shang family, and then treating all of them as true relatives ("Thus the kings of antiquity bestowed the different states as fiefs and cultivated friendly relations [literally: relations of brotherhood] with the feudal lords.") In the Sequence, it comes after 6 and 7, which refer to legal causes and fighting, especially you can see it as a step after line 7.6.
The phrase you quoted is variously interpreted. IMO it's a pointer to timeliness: a great meeting was held for the rulers who wanted to stay with the Zhou, and who arrived late was considered an enemy. This is because, if he was sure of being by the Zhou side, then he would have come to the meeting in time. Something like: don't hesitate, don't miss the right moment and don't get discouraged along the way.

 

[tiziano]

(sorry, my post appeared twice due to a connection problem) (connection... union... well, funny)

 

[tiziano]

By the way, could this mean finding an agreement without going to the end in the trial? It seems to me this is suggesting something like that. That could be the "right moment" you shouldn't miss (the opportunity to find an agreement).

 

[liminalangel]

I really appreciate your insights, Tiziano - thank you! Really supports my hunch, although I'm admittedly still confused about the > 47 in the first reading. "Exhaustion"/"Oppression" and "Survival and salvation lie beyond your reach now" are pretty forboding, even if I find great support in "Triumph belongs to those who endure. Trial and tribulation can hone exceptional character to a razor edge that slices deftly through every challenge. Action prevails where words will fail."

Regardless, thank you again. I just ordered "The Portable Dragon" and am really looking forward to getting more of a feel for this stuff, learning from this community.