What should I do next? Hexagram 30.1.3.4>23

[Wild Goose]

I am pretty run down at the minute and there's so much stuff to do, was feeling confused in general and so I asked Yi:

What should I do next?
Hexagram 30.1.3.4>23
(Clarity to Stripping Away)

I was thinking in terms of the next few minutes like tidy up, bills, feed the cat - that kind of thing.

But it looks like Yi is saying rather than do, get rid of, i.e. strip away
1)anything confusing,
2)anything delusional-extreme
3)anything temporary. So I asked:

To what extent have I correctly interpreted the reading?
Hexagram 14.2.5.6>49
(Great Possession to Radical Change)

Which I read as
1)yes get rid of confusion and gain a direction
2)get rid of delusion and gain truth
3)get rid of the temporal and gain heavenly help

As usual I don't know if I've got this correctly and I'm really just sharing. Plus I would still need to figure out what more specifically requires stripping away. Anyone else get a reading like this?

 

[Freedda]

For your first query and response, 30.1.3.4 > 23, I see a lots of different ways of looking at this reading, but here I'll focus on one:

With Hex. 30 you're starting with clarity, a vision of the sun rising. I think there is an implied call to action, since you're told that 'care of the cow brings good fortune.' So, with the sunrise, you don't just laze around and soak up the sun's warmth, but you attend to things, perhaps to those things which also serve and feed you - as a cow might.

But here you have what Star Wars fans might call a 'disturbance in the force.' Looking at the hexagram's imagery, here you have fire/flame repeated, but three times (lines 1,3 4) the fuel is being taking away or is being used up, so that one's light/clarity goes dim and we're left with confusion.

What to do? Looking at the resulting trigram, 23, I'm reminded of this:

Death is the only wise advisor that we have. Whenever you feel ... that everything is going wrong and you're about to be annihilated, turn to your death and ask if that is so. Your death will tell you that you're wrong; that nothing really matters outside its touch. Your death will tell you, 'I haven't touched you yet.'

Don Juan Matus in Carlos Castaneda's 'Journey to Ixtlan'​

Similarly, with Hex. 23 we have the idea of things 'falling apart', or 'decomposing'. Here we're given the image of a mountain built upon earth, which is a fertile and abundance base, but also one that changes and is subject to erosion and decay.

>>> So the advice might be: when you're confused, take a moment to be still and consider how the Earth supports and nourishes, but that like all things, it too fades and decays.

Or that might be one way to look at it ....

Best, D

 

[Changstein]

"I am pretty run down at the minute and there's so much stuff to do, was feeling confused in general and so I asked Yi"

...and Yi said whatever tasks or chores you are putting off, just grit your teeth and get them over with and you'll be done before you know it.

For a reading that was supposed to be about puttering around the house and feeding the cats, we've got getting rid of delusions and gaining truth, visions of the sun rising and ruminations on death LOL.

 

[Freedda]

...and Yi said whatever tasks or chores you are putting off, just grit your teeth and get them over with and you'll be done before you know it.

I'm curious, where did you get or glean this from?

 

[Changstein]

Tending to cattle = domestic chores
Crosswise steps = avoidance
Honor this, no error = deal with it
Setting sun = your energy is declining
If not Beating the drum and singing the elderly lament = use that energy while you still have it
Suddenly it comes, burns, dies thrown out = blaze through it, it'll all be over very quickly.

I feel like someone who just told a funny joke and then ruined it by explaining the punchline, like it's not enough that I wrote two posts on an expired reading about feeding the cats
Hey Traveler, was taking out the garbage on your to-do list?

Gotta LOL @ the lyrics to Roundabout

 

[Freedda]

I feel like someone who just told a funny joke and then ruined it by explaining the punchline ....

I see it as you sharing your understanding of the reading, which was not at first clear to me. I see things a bit differently in some of these lines, but that's not what really matters.

D

 

[Wild Goose]

Hey Traveler, was taking out the garbage on your to-do list?

Oh, I'm so embarrassed! I was super wracked up that day ok, I start waxing poetic when I get like that, even taking out the garbage feels like a holy visionary mission. And now this is going to be here for a good decade and more for future generations to appreciate

But here you have what Star Wars fans might call a 'disturbance in the force.' Looking at the hexagram's imagery, here you have fire/flame repeated, but three times (lines 1,3 4) the fuel is being taking away or is being used up, so that one's light/clarity goes dim and we're left with confusion.

Yeah, I got run down in large part due to burn out!

When I went back I got a similar reading like it'll be confusing at first but be cheerful and use your energy while you can.