what am I not aware of (and would be beneficial if I were aware?) Hex 1 1.2.3.4.5 > 23

[AYaren]

I cast for this reading, with not a specific theme in my mind but with a general curiosity.

What am I not aware of and would be beneficial for me, if I were?

and received Hex 1 changing lines 1.2.3.4.5 > 23

Hmm...nowadays I am focused primarily on my living situation, in a foreign country, with an expired visa! and being hosted by well-meaning people, and worried that I have been in their house much longer than I was supposed to be. The other prevailing issue is reckoning with the end of a relationship (for the past 6 months!) and worries around my so far not very bright romantic life, longing for a partner, and being 37 years old.

As little as I know, Hexagram 1 is a lot about the focused and oriented creative energy.

With so many lines changing, I am not sure how to read this. I see that there is a sequence of events,
starting with the dragon being submerged and then it is awakening and then it is training, cultivating, to leaping a big danger? abyss and to flying in the sky. Is this dragon my ability to create with focused directed action?

My other instinct is to read all the changing lines and to discern the commonalities and specifics:


'fruitful to see a great person' (or - the chief diviner) (lines 2 and 5) I wonder who that could be? Pioneers in my professional field?

There is no fault or no curse from the ancestors. (line 3 and 4) Relieved! I am very hesitant and perplexed in making choices as I think some of my choices so far have been detrimental.

all lines have the dragon except line 3. Why? what. happened to the dragon


And all of this with the secondary Hex 23, stripping. I can relate to stripping as feeling stripped of energy, due to an overwhelming 6 months of emotional reckoning. I have felt, during these 6 months, not able to do much and just rested, for hours. I did what I could, and rested a lot, focused on my felt sensations in the body, and developed a certain somatic awareness. I also did a lot of art (compared to before), painting, and some writing as a way of working with my emotional self.

There was a prevalence of hexagram 45 as primary and secondary hexagram in April, which has shifted to 23's and 1's in the month of May. I have received hex 1 with 4 lines changing before but never with 5 lines changing.

I wonder what the community here would like to offer, as I am quite surprised by this reading. (maybe I ought NOT TO considering that I asked for what I am not aware of

many thanks!

 

[rosada]

I think you are being advised that you are coming out of an old world into a very different new one. with an opertunity to consciously create your new experience. This could be the experience we are all going through with the Covid-19 . A chance to let the old bad habits and out worn routines and negative thought patterns 23. Fall Away.

 

[breakmov]

Hi AYaren,

"What am I not aware of and would be beneficial for me, if I were?"

Hex1.1.2.3.4.5 > 23

-If you want to focus and direct your creative energy, do you have the resolution to separate the "wheat from the chaff" ?

-If you want to focus and orient your creative energy, have the courage to "remove the corruption" from what doesn't work in your past.

-If you want to focus and direct your creative energy, apply yourself resolutely and determinedly to understand what has gone wrong in your past and needs to be left behind.

Can you contemplate Hex1.1.2.3.4.5>23 until December?

Cheers,

breakmov

 

[Trojina]

I don't think it's a great question since it presupposes something which may not be true in which case you just confuse yourself.

I mean if there is no particular thing you are unaware of that it would be better if you were then you would kind of be looking for something that isn't there.

 

[rosada]

Yeah, it's a tricky question cause if you're not aware of what you're looking for how can the I Ching make you aware when you find it? I think of the famous Chico Marx line from Duck Soup, "Look, he's a spy and I'm a spy, he work-a for me. I want him to find out-a something, but he no find out what I wanna find out. Now how am I gonna find out what I wanna find out if he no find out what I gotta find out?"

Still, A Yaren, I think you have been given a useful answer! Creativity leading to Stripping Away. You got five of the six the lines outlining the steps for guiding creative intention. Interesting how the last line, the one you didn't get, warns against attempting too much, maybe the I Ching is saying, "Don't worry, you know enough, you can't be aware of everything"? And then the second hexagram is Splitting Apart, again a reference to not taking things too far, knowing when it's time to shed the old skin, to let things go. So all-in-all I see this answer as advice that you only need to stay in the eternal now, keep creating and don't try to project too far into the future or hang on too much to the past.

 

[AYaren]

Thank you breakmow, Trojina and rosada, for answering. Your replies make me think and ponder with freshness.

... in which case you just confuse yourself.

I do tend to do that

and yet I trust when Yi gives answers (i'd chuck away the question if the answer was, say h4 or h22 - which in my case 90% of the time means superficial)
and helps me reframe the question after the fact.

maybe the I Ching is saying, "Don't worry, you know enough, you can't be aware of everything"? And then the second hexagram is Splitting Apart, again a reference to not taking things too far, knowing when it's time to shed the old skin, to let things go. So all-in-all I see this answer as advice that you only need to stay in the eternal now, keep creating and don't try to project too far into the future or hang on too much to the past.

Yes!

I can relate to the falling away of the old patterns. And, I don't - at least nowadays- feel the energy to apply myself to it or to do it vigorously.

I am also thinking of hexagram 23 line 6, the large fruit that is not eaten yet, falling to the earth (hex2), and a new world&reality growing from it. I received hex 23 line 6 recently, a few weeks before this one.

What feels easier is to try relaxing more and more to the little moments of here and now, and the falling away, the sprouting of the new, all happening by itself. As if preparing the necessary conditions for things to take their course.