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Copying Hilary's translation:Today I felt it was ok to ask the Yi a new question, which has been: How to get my key back? and received 43.3 > 58
Did the shutter need a key to open it? If so, you might've been juggling two keys at once, which could have been awkward.Here's what happened: I parked my car about ten feet away from a garage where I needed to fetch a box. Opened the shutter, walked in, looked for the box, got it, went out.
Nine in the Third Place
Powerful in the cheekbones.
This brings misfortune.
The superior person is firmly resolved.
He travels alone,
And meets with rain.
He is soaked, angry.
No blame.
“Powerful in the cheekbones” means talking too much or talking at the wrong time. To meet with rain and become soaked means to suffer the indignity of misunderstanding and disapproval from others. You face a difficulty that you must resolve by yourself. In dealing with the problem you may find that you have to use unorthodox methods. You may have to temporarily align with your adversaries or associate yourself with inferior people or elements. This means that you must keep your counsel to yourself. Others will inevitably misunderstand you, and they may criticize you. But if your reasons are correct and your motives are pure, you should not be dissuaded from doing the right thing. In dangerous times it is important to be true to yourself even if others misjudge you. If you persevere and maintain your integrity, you will remain without blame in the end.
Balkin, Jack. The Laws of Change: I Ching and the Philosophy of Life (pp. 442-443). Sybil Creek Press. Kindle Edition.
'Vigorous in the cheekbones
Presuming the worst
The noble young one is resolved and decided
All alone in advancing, to greet the rain
As if getting wet
Were displeasure
Nothing is wrong'
43.3x 'The noble young one (is) resolved (and) decided: In the end no harm (is) done'
The relentless pursuer and the fugitive he pursues wear almost identical faces: too strong in the gaze, looking stubborn and obsessed, suspiciously nervous and tense. Their expressions of dark and mysterious purpose are not all that hard to confuse, except with each other. Both end their days much bespattered, and the subjects of much muddled gossip. The fugitive tries to look and act like a lawman, while the gendarme wants to think like his criminal. The signals they give are odd and unclear. Bystanders cannot decide who is who. They develop a very close bond in this way. This obsession of course has a purpose, hopefully one with an end and no future. Here and now is limited living and no place to be. This bad-looking hombre, with his wet-dog smell and his stubble, will not see the good life until the trial is over.
9 at 3: 'Vigor in the face has pitfalls.
The noble one is very resolute in moving alone.
Encountering rain, overwhelmed by soaking, meeting displeasure.
Without misfortune.'
To be unique is to be never understood. To be unique is to be alone. You are the only person in the world who can be you, so you have to do it all by yourself. Everyone else will make you something else. (Changes to hex.58)
So I asked the Yi Jing: Where is my car key?
The response has been: 63.5 > 36
I then asked: Will I find my car key? (I like to ask predictive questions!)
The response: 14 unchanging.
I take this to mean that “I do have it already”! But where?????????
Clarity,
Office 17622,
PO Box 6945,
London.
W1A 6US
United Kingdom
Phone/ Voicemail:
+44 (0)20 3287 3053 (UK)
+1 (561) 459-4758 (US).