What is wrong at the moment? Hx37 => Hx49

[elph]

<font color="0000ff">A little help with this one would be much appreciated.

Something is wrong at moment, things don't feel as they should. At lot has changed in my life recently but change doesn't normally leave me feeling like this.

To fill you in: Recently started a new MA course, meaning i've had to return to my home town and move back in with my folks. Not sure if this ill feeling is because i'm studying the wrong subject (i do have my doubts), if i simply shouldn't be continuing education, if it's due to my (rather awkward) living situation or something bigger.

Asked the Yi "What is it that is wrong with my current situation?" and received Hx37 w changing 4 and 6. Relating Hx49

Really need help with this one. I've totally lost my normal content feeling of being on the right track. Feel like i've totally strayed off the path at the moment and seriously need to fix it.

Thanks in advance</font>

 

[dobro p]

37 can be about a family situation. Lines 37.4 and 37.6 are both good. Overall, 37>49 is more ambivalent, but it's easy enough to put a positive spin on it: "You're part of the inner group now in a way that throws off outmoded forms." However, you asked the Yi *what's wrong*. You got 37>49. See, it's also possible to read it along the lines of: "What's wrong is your participation in the inner group (the family). You should throw this off, get a new situation to locate yourself in."

I dunno. Which one feels like the right reading to you?

You know, sometimes the Yi seems to come up with something that can be interpreted in exactly two different ways. When I get that, and when I can't decide which one is the right one, I usually take it to mean that the Yi's saying something like: "Well, dobro, on the one hand it's like this. On the other hand, it's like that. Your call."

 

[bruce]

Yup Yup, agree, Dobro. A picture of what the scene looks like, not always with a directive to go this way or that. And I agree that Elph's reading may be such an example.

37.4 refers to the wife or mother, whose responsibility it is to tend to the inner economy, while 37.6 refers to the ruler or spiritual head, who is the visionary and achiever.

49 may be saying that it's time to reevaluate the order of these particular priorities in your life, redefine what role formal education plays in your future, and/or what else to make room for to expand.

 

[jesed]

Hi Elph

Just in case the commentarie could be useful

1.- Related hexagram in this case shows you the context of your situation: a time of revolution, drastical changes. So, trhe context about what is wrong is about how you are handle the changes in your life nowadays.

2.- The answer is about organization (the inner thoughs, the self-development, a family, a business, a state needs... all of this need to be well organizated to doing well in life. That's the general teaching of hex 37). So "what is wrong" is about the way you organizace the diferent elements involved in the changes you are living.

3.- The teaching of 37's image is: if your words and your actions aren't in harmony one to each other, you won't have constancy in your life; if you don't have constancy in your life you cannot organize propperly a family (neither a business nor a state nor your self-development).

4.- More specyfic apects about what is wrong: line 4 (the way you organized the material realm of your life in this chnaging time) and line 6 (the way you organized the spiritual realm of your life in this changing time).

So, in one phrase: "what is wrong" is the way you organize the interactions of material-spiritual needs in this time of drastical changes to your life.

Best wishes

 

[jesed]

Ps

The time your are living started between December 17, 2004 and February 1st 2005

And this time won't end until December 16, 2005

The line 4 was active from June 17 to August 16. In this time, the way you organize your material life had a high importance.

The line 6 is active nowadays: from October 17 to December 16. In this time you should meditate in the way you organize your spiritual life, and how it interacts with your materials needs.

 

[peace]

Hi there:
37 refers to family - proper roles for successful relationships.
49 - lots of changes.

Perhaps since you are "home" again with where it all began, it's time to look at these relationships and determine what you grew up with and where you want to be now - looking at these people as they really are through adult eyes and letting go of the child's perspective!

Good luck!
Rosalie

 

[elph]

<font color="0000ff">Hello Again

Right, this one is a puzzle and your responses have given me quite a bit to think over.

I'm having trouble with the seeming focus on the family situation because of all the concerns i had the family was the least of my worries. My main worry was regard to the course i'm following and my actual continuing of education. Of all this talk of change and revolution though it doesn't feel to me like the Yi is indicating a change is needed there, rather i get the impression that it's me that needs to change to the situation rather than the other way round. I guess this is a good thing and echoes your ideas of the need for me to organise myself.

Feel alot better about this one now, thank you all so much.

I think i shall ask the Yi's advice on the best way to proceed. If i get stuck and if it's okay with you friends, then i shall post back for some more insight.

Thanks again</font>

 

[elph]

<font color="0000ff">By the way Jesed, the dates that you gave are quite specific and are in some ways acurate too. Im interested in how you came up with them, i didnt realise that the Yi could give detail in that sense. Though it really never ceases to amaze!</font>

 

[jesed]

Hi Elph

The first step of the way is understand Pre-Heaven and Post-Heaven orders.

When one achieve that, one can understand that Yi Jings answers
a) "show" us the exact kind of energy related to our answer. So, we can harmonize the energy of our actions with the energy ot the "Time" we are living: if the energy of the time is active, our actions must be active; when the energy of the time is receptive, our actions must be receptive.
b) "shows" us the kind of cicle of transformation of energy in the "Time" we are living (not as calendaric time, but as quality of time like a time to be active or a time to be quiet).. so we can know how the energy related to our question had move in the past and will move in the future
c) "shows" us the frame-time while the actual energy rule. When it started and when will be finish in calendaric time.

This means: Before study the way to stablish the frame-time, one need to had understanding the cicles of transformation of energy; before study the cicles of transformation of energy, one need to had understanding the way to stablish the kind of energy for each hexagram; before study the way to stablish the kind of energy of each hexagram, one need to had understanding the Pre-Heaven and Post-Heaven orders.

Sorry if this is confuse, narrow or "lacking"; but i cannt say more about this on internet

Best wishes

 

[jesed]

PS.-

Just in case it could be useful: some people think about spiritual life in terms of religion. That is not accurate.

Our felings, our toughs, our education, our culture belongs to our spiritual life too.

When I wrote: "In this time you should meditate in the way you organize your spiritual life, and how it interacts with your materials needs." I was meanning this in that "open sense" of spiritual life

 

[bruce]

Good stuff, Jesed. It is often a case of "spiritual life over here, work life over there, thought life here, personal history there"; and I completely agree that they are all spiritual life.

Secondly, it's an interesting thought, to mirror the time. I've always been aware of being in harmony with what the time requires of me, how to best interplay with the time, but haven't thought much in terms of echoing or mirroring the general time. Will have to let that simmer on the burner awhile.