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Well, I copied the 4 guidelines but they didn't remain in clipboard, and can't go back so here goes anyway:
Personal background: have been throwing I-Ching since the 1970's, nearly always using Wilhelm edition. Had many more for a while but a fire dissolved them all so am left with the same old copy I bought back then. Very comfortable with that language now. Also studied graduate level chinese medical theory at a daoist school for a little while, but it was too expensive (US University fees for credit) and didn't do the whole thing, but have better than beginner's understanding of yin-yang theory.
I know someone who is slightly psychic. I am not at all as far as I know! She told me recently that in terms of Trump, he will not be President come November, but nor will any of the Opposite Party, and he will not die. That's an interesting combination, no? So she suggested I do a throw and even though I don't usually use the I-Ching that way (throwing about public figures, the world etc.) I did. I don't always ask precise questions since I find often the results harder to read. It's more like I ask for an energy pattern reading about a situation. I find that works best for me, and then the hexagrams give guidance on the sort of approach that may be called for, the dangers, the opportunities and the changing lines help hone in on particular aspects or provide clues as to more specific things that may come up or be involved. Something like that. Sometimes I find the readings extremely clear and easily applicable; sometimes not. This one seems quite clear. I use coins which I've had also since the 70's. I begin the throw by placing all three Yang side up on the table, then pick them up, shake them hidden between both palms, and cast. I then pick them up as they have fallen, and repeat another 5 times. Before and during the throw, I keep my mind on the topic at hand. In this case I had in mind Trump between now and November.
I threw 3.3 to 63.
Difficulty at the Beginning is in some sense the first action Hexagram in the series given that 1 & 2 are all-Yang & all-Yin. I think of them as quasi Primordial. If I get them, I feel that something deep is going down. 3 is the first one after those pure ones. The situation is chock full of limitless potential but challenging. That seems a fair synopsis. In many ways Trump has been thwarted from his first days and is still an outsider with few connections to the insiders who are doing all they can to expel him. This is where the #3 Changing line was very specific and interesting:
you need a guide to take you into and through the forest if you are hunting therein else you lose your way in the forest. "The superior man understands the sign of the time and prefers to desist. To go on brings humiliation." Further commentary on the changing line then reads later: "Therefore, the superior man, seeing the seeds of coming events, prefers to renounce a wish rather than provoke failure and humiliation by trying to force its fulfillment."
Well! That was a very striking echo of my friend's somewhat enigmatic take.
Leading to: 63 After Completion. As I saw that (I used to know the hexagram nr as soon as I threw it but that was years ago when I threw more regularly and was much younger!) number come up, I thought: "Ah, it's over, he's done!"
In any case, it dovetails VERY well with my friend's reading using other methods. In this throw, it seems like he will withdraw from the field to avoid disgrace and humiliation. Let's face it, after four years there the forces arrayed against him are demonstrating that they are willing to burn the entire country down if necessary to ensure he never enjoys any easy successes. At a certain point, as I remarked to my wife this morning, you have to conclude that he's not up to the job. Not necessarily in terms of talent or competence, but in terms of networking, of fitting in. Even if he wins again, and even if he were to get both House and Senate again, it is quite likely that he would be massively obstructed all the way both at home and abroad. Also his enemies have pledged to prosecute him after he gets out of office and try to put him and his family away for long stretches, even though as yet - and even after almost three years of a intensive govt-run probes - they have no crime on him. Still, a businessman with hundreds of holdings will always have some things which can be challenged.
It's brutal, the whole affair, and if the powers that be in the DC Establishment wanted to send a message to any other outsider considering a 'drain the swamp' run to enter only at their peril, they have succeeded I suspect. He is outmatched by the depth and scope of enmity arrayed against him in what has become an overly bloated and highly corrupt Republic. Pity. I know he's controversial and hated by many, but energetic and competent even most of his enemies will grant him. Imagine what might have happened if they hadn't tried to sabotage his Presidency from the day after the election? He was never given the peaceful transition of power. Again, a great pity, not just for him, but for the Republic.
If indeed he does end up bowing out, the country will go through a deep teaching moment as it contemplates - finally without the heat of aroused hatred and scorn - what next ill transpire? Do they go back to corruption as usual? Do they choose a happy median as with Obama, joyfully covering up all the corruptions and excesses, a feel-good as we all go broke together approach? Or do they try again for reform but with someone less controversial, someone less likely to get the Establishment's back up, in other words, someone who won't rock the boat and therefore won't reform anything? Or do they want another fighter? The country is going to have to do some soul-searching. In a way, that will be much deeper once he's out of the picture.
All of these sorts of issues seem to me to be in the changing line, that he was on the hunt for a deer in the forest, but lacked sufficient guides who knew the local terrain, and indeed still lacks them. Nearly everyone he appoints ends up serving the Establishment first, and the People's elected Tribune a distant second. So perhaps he would be doing the right thing by leaving the field. I find it almost impossible to imagine him doing this, but both this throw and my friend's reading share that same prognostication, namely that he won't die, and he won't be President come November. Oh - she also said he wasn't going to lose either. This throw is predicting a withdrawal. Maybe there won't be a normal election, but the hexagrams don't really address that, unless 63 indicates the end of the entire dynamic, but that seems like a stretch to me given the throw was about Trump. Still, that individual IS President of the Republic so his fate - for now at least - is tied up with the fate of the entire Republic. And as some remarks in the #3 Changing line Wilhem commentary say: "Fate cannot be duped (we would say: you can't cheat fate); premature effort without the necessary guidance, ends in failure and disgrace. .... therefore renouncing the wish is better than failing..... etc.
We'll see. Anyway.
So on the surface it seems like a very straightforward reading. Am curious what anyone else might think.
PS I just noticed:
#3 is the first 'working hexagram so to speak after the opening Primordial Two. And #63 is in the last pair, being After Completion so in a way the End. So this is the first working with the last working hexagrams. Seems like a complete package, a beginning and an end. I would say the throw clearly indicates that he is a One Term President.
Personal background: have been throwing I-Ching since the 1970's, nearly always using Wilhelm edition. Had many more for a while but a fire dissolved them all so am left with the same old copy I bought back then. Very comfortable with that language now. Also studied graduate level chinese medical theory at a daoist school for a little while, but it was too expensive (US University fees for credit) and didn't do the whole thing, but have better than beginner's understanding of yin-yang theory.
I know someone who is slightly psychic. I am not at all as far as I know! She told me recently that in terms of Trump, he will not be President come November, but nor will any of the Opposite Party, and he will not die. That's an interesting combination, no? So she suggested I do a throw and even though I don't usually use the I-Ching that way (throwing about public figures, the world etc.) I did. I don't always ask precise questions since I find often the results harder to read. It's more like I ask for an energy pattern reading about a situation. I find that works best for me, and then the hexagrams give guidance on the sort of approach that may be called for, the dangers, the opportunities and the changing lines help hone in on particular aspects or provide clues as to more specific things that may come up or be involved. Something like that. Sometimes I find the readings extremely clear and easily applicable; sometimes not. This one seems quite clear. I use coins which I've had also since the 70's. I begin the throw by placing all three Yang side up on the table, then pick them up, shake them hidden between both palms, and cast. I then pick them up as they have fallen, and repeat another 5 times. Before and during the throw, I keep my mind on the topic at hand. In this case I had in mind Trump between now and November.
I threw 3.3 to 63.
Difficulty at the Beginning is in some sense the first action Hexagram in the series given that 1 & 2 are all-Yang & all-Yin. I think of them as quasi Primordial. If I get them, I feel that something deep is going down. 3 is the first one after those pure ones. The situation is chock full of limitless potential but challenging. That seems a fair synopsis. In many ways Trump has been thwarted from his first days and is still an outsider with few connections to the insiders who are doing all they can to expel him. This is where the #3 Changing line was very specific and interesting:
you need a guide to take you into and through the forest if you are hunting therein else you lose your way in the forest. "The superior man understands the sign of the time and prefers to desist. To go on brings humiliation." Further commentary on the changing line then reads later: "Therefore, the superior man, seeing the seeds of coming events, prefers to renounce a wish rather than provoke failure and humiliation by trying to force its fulfillment."
Well! That was a very striking echo of my friend's somewhat enigmatic take.
Leading to: 63 After Completion. As I saw that (I used to know the hexagram nr as soon as I threw it but that was years ago when I threw more regularly and was much younger!) number come up, I thought: "Ah, it's over, he's done!"
In any case, it dovetails VERY well with my friend's reading using other methods. In this throw, it seems like he will withdraw from the field to avoid disgrace and humiliation. Let's face it, after four years there the forces arrayed against him are demonstrating that they are willing to burn the entire country down if necessary to ensure he never enjoys any easy successes. At a certain point, as I remarked to my wife this morning, you have to conclude that he's not up to the job. Not necessarily in terms of talent or competence, but in terms of networking, of fitting in. Even if he wins again, and even if he were to get both House and Senate again, it is quite likely that he would be massively obstructed all the way both at home and abroad. Also his enemies have pledged to prosecute him after he gets out of office and try to put him and his family away for long stretches, even though as yet - and even after almost three years of a intensive govt-run probes - they have no crime on him. Still, a businessman with hundreds of holdings will always have some things which can be challenged.
It's brutal, the whole affair, and if the powers that be in the DC Establishment wanted to send a message to any other outsider considering a 'drain the swamp' run to enter only at their peril, they have succeeded I suspect. He is outmatched by the depth and scope of enmity arrayed against him in what has become an overly bloated and highly corrupt Republic. Pity. I know he's controversial and hated by many, but energetic and competent even most of his enemies will grant him. Imagine what might have happened if they hadn't tried to sabotage his Presidency from the day after the election? He was never given the peaceful transition of power. Again, a great pity, not just for him, but for the Republic.
If indeed he does end up bowing out, the country will go through a deep teaching moment as it contemplates - finally without the heat of aroused hatred and scorn - what next ill transpire? Do they go back to corruption as usual? Do they choose a happy median as with Obama, joyfully covering up all the corruptions and excesses, a feel-good as we all go broke together approach? Or do they try again for reform but with someone less controversial, someone less likely to get the Establishment's back up, in other words, someone who won't rock the boat and therefore won't reform anything? Or do they want another fighter? The country is going to have to do some soul-searching. In a way, that will be much deeper once he's out of the picture.
All of these sorts of issues seem to me to be in the changing line, that he was on the hunt for a deer in the forest, but lacked sufficient guides who knew the local terrain, and indeed still lacks them. Nearly everyone he appoints ends up serving the Establishment first, and the People's elected Tribune a distant second. So perhaps he would be doing the right thing by leaving the field. I find it almost impossible to imagine him doing this, but both this throw and my friend's reading share that same prognostication, namely that he won't die, and he won't be President come November. Oh - she also said he wasn't going to lose either. This throw is predicting a withdrawal. Maybe there won't be a normal election, but the hexagrams don't really address that, unless 63 indicates the end of the entire dynamic, but that seems like a stretch to me given the throw was about Trump. Still, that individual IS President of the Republic so his fate - for now at least - is tied up with the fate of the entire Republic. And as some remarks in the #3 Changing line Wilhem commentary say: "Fate cannot be duped (we would say: you can't cheat fate); premature effort without the necessary guidance, ends in failure and disgrace. .... therefore renouncing the wish is better than failing..... etc.
We'll see. Anyway.
So on the surface it seems like a very straightforward reading. Am curious what anyone else might think.
PS I just noticed:
#3 is the first 'working hexagram so to speak after the opening Primordial Two. And #63 is in the last pair, being After Completion so in a way the End. So this is the first working with the last working hexagrams. Seems like a complete package, a beginning and an end. I would say the throw clearly indicates that he is a One Term President.
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