What’s the plot? 47.4.5 - 7

[rosada]

I was asking the I Ching, "If this Corona thing is an unfolding story we're making up as we go along, can you at least tell us the plot line?" I received 47.4.5 Isolation (!) changing to 7. The Army.

The Plot:
47. Each must navigate their own path, find their own way forward, trust inner guidance and not herd mentality. Wake up and realize where current trajectory is heading. Survival requires we ...

7.
Demonstrate ability to think and respond to the demands of the moment.
March to the beat of one's own drummer (heart, conscience, instincts, inner feeling)
Improve chances of survival by sharing and improving the lives of others, particularly those in close physical range.

 

[mandarin_23]

Very interesting!

The 47 suits well - Isolation! Oppression! Maybe even illness. There is an advice in 47. Help each other, even though it is not that easy (47.4.) and (47.5) make offerings. And there will be recovering.

And we had the 13 unchanged hexagram before, so this is the 7, the opposite. As 13 could well be a clan or a group holding toghether going into the war, with a command to do so coming from the ancestors in 13.2 ... and 7, the opposite, is the army, with the general in it, waiting for a command from his king.

If you are talking about a body, I'd say that 7 is the immune system, if you talk about single people. It might also be the army people in the streets, helping to distribute food and to prevent robbers - and, in general, the strict govermental measures.

 

[herrmyte]

from pandemic to the opposite of social distancing. an intention to control (martial law?) generates its opposite. enantiodromia

 

[Freedda]

from pandemic to the opposite of social distancing. an intention to control (martial law?) generates its opposite. enantiodromia

'enantiodromia' - I had to look that one up: 'the emergence of the unconscious opposite ....'

Which leads me to two questions: 1) where are the 'opposites' that you say exist here? Because, between pandemic, social distancing, and martial law, I'm not seeing any clear 'opposites'.

And 2), where are you seeing that this is related to the Yi's response, 47.4.5 - 7 ? I'm just not seeing the connections.

D.