Who’s Behind It All? Hex 56

[sitara]

I’ve had some serious problems over the last 8 years. I asked “Can you show me who is behind all this, if there’s a person? “ I got Hex 56 unchanging. Do the different hexes correspond to types of people? Icons? Is there a prototypical incarnation of hex 56? Does anyone have an experience to share regarding a 56 type person? Maybe a traveler, a tourist, a flake...?

 

[rosada]

Hexagram 56 uc.
The Wanderer is someone who is passing through a situation and does not have a strong impact on it. Therefore I think the IC is saying that there is not a specific person behind your problems.
On the other hand, if it is referring to a specific person than I think it indicates someone who is unconscious of causing you problems - like a tourist strolling by and disrupting you just as you're trying to take a picture.

 

[moss elk]

I’ve had some serious problems over the last 8 years.

Tell us what kind of problems?

(has someone been throwing eggs at your window? or is it general strife and malcontent?)

 

[rosada]

Yes, as Moss Elk has asked. Can you tell us more about the situation? Would the problems you've been having be due to you being The Wanderer? Like 56 might indicate problems of not being included in significant meetings or conversations because you are seen as an outsider.

 

[sitara]

Metaphysical Causality

Thanks for your replies. Details might not help but. I’m talking about many and various problems. Deaths. Serious illnesses. Violent attacks. Manifestation of deep hatred. Persistent stalkers. Refusal of police and authorities to intervene. Etc. A very dark and dangerous period with serious predators. My question was interrogating metaphysical and not physical causality.

 

[rosada]

Ah. Well then I think 56 uc. is saying there is not a specific person causing these unfortunate events - just random run-ins, I guess.

 

[diamanda]

To add another possibility - 56 might refer to astrological transits. As in, a transiting planet (planet actually means 'wanderer').

 

[sitara]

A Non Answer

Ah, well. Yes. But thanks anyway for the responses. I wonder if this isn’t an example of a non-answer. Sometime the I Ching simply doesn’t answer. The response doesn’t reveal anything.

 

[rosada]

Although I usually rail against yes-or-no questions because I think the IC hexagrams can be interpreted both ways, re-reading your question "Can you show me who is behind all this?" and considering your sense that the I Ching gave you a "non-answer" maybe in this case the I Ching was saying "Nope!"

 

[sitara]

Thank you Rosada for your insightful and compassionate response. My two cents: I have come to think that 56 refers to someone who is far from you. Whether you left their side or they left yours. I see 56 as: Tourists, travelers, people you left behind when you travelled but who are still linked to you, people who you know but who have travelled away from you. In my particular case I know a few people who are linked to me but who havé travelled/moved away from me. People I know but who have returned to their country or who are on extended business trips. Alas. None mean me any well. Hence the problem(s). I have also read on this forum that 56 refers to temporary situations which are in flux. Of course all of this is conjecture. Unless God sends me a vision or dream to confirm. Hint hint, God.

 

[radiofreewill]

Hi sitara,

“Can you show me who is behind all this, if there’s a person?”
56uc ~ Who is behind your constantly wandering mind?

With respect to a metaphysical cause for the woeful state of your experience during these last eight years ~ have you considered that it might be a question of your perception?

I am not a therapist…

However, I think you would agree that it certainly looks like the Sun rises and falls every day, and that the Moon waxes and wanes every month?

Except, upon further enquiry, we realize that it’s actually the Sun that is “still” in the center ~ it’s our own tilt that makes it appear that the Sun rises and falls in the sky every day. And, as for the Moon, its shape doesn’t actually wax and wane with its illumination during the month ~ it stays the same.

In view of the appearances, however, we’ve ‘normalized’ the Sun rising and falling, and the Moon waxing and waning ~ and it gives us the sense of perpetual Change.

But, but, but, just behind the veneer of appearances in the sky ~ is the Sun at rest in the center, with the perfectly round Moon cyclically crossing by ~ the dynamic Changeless is right there ~ hidden in plain sight behind the misperceptions.

So, here you are ~ wandering around like Alice in Wonderland, marveling that everyone seems to have a “story” that sees urgency everywhere they look, while at the same time carrying a burdened sky-is-falling “story” of your own?

Might it be the tilt at work in everyone?

Could the more straightforward truth be that you are not your “story” ~ rather you are the Awareness of your story?

Would that take the tilt out?

Who is behind your constantly wandering mind?

I hope this helps!

 

[sitara]

You asked if your comment helped. Quite frankly it didn’t. Not helpful or even humane. I found it quite unpleasant and seeking to be hurtful. Very far from accurate as well: when was death and illness ever subjective? Is death of a loved one due to subjective perception? You say I have a wandering mind. How odd to say this since you don’t even know me. Hexagram 56 does not refer to a wandering mind at all; this argument is far too abstract and yet you did not bother to substantiate it in any way. Not sure what your intention is here. Very insensitive to be so dismissive of others’ difficulties by relegating them to fantasy. Where’s the Oracle in this?

 

[sitara]

That was a rhetorical question. Don’t bother to answer.

 

[sitara]

@RadioFreeWill
Our approaches are so profoundly different, I suspect that only unpleasant things can occur if we ever have further contact in life. I humbly submit that we should just carefully avoid each other henceforth. No hard feelings, but let’s avoid each other. That means, I would prefer if you NEVER respond to any question that I ever ask on this website. Thank you.

 

[radiofreewill]

Hi sitara ~ Please accept my sincere apologies ~ I hope you can forgive me for my insensitivity?

I will do as you wish and not respond to your questions in the future.

I wish you all the best ~ many blessings.

 

[sitara]

Just regrettable

No hard feelings. It’s just hard to fathom how anyone can reduce another person’s grief and experience with tragedy and death to a « burdened sky-is-falling « story » ». Such satiric comments are made by people who have never had experience with grief and tragedy first hand, never lost a loved one. For fools rush in where angels fear to tread. (Pope). But let’s let it drop and move on. Forgotten.