world financial crisis 7 unchanged

[signs]

I can say that I'am quit worried about all these banks tumbling down and so many gouvernments that 'have' to buy banks because they're affraid clients would run off and invest their money in other countries.

In general I have the feeling that somethings in the air... and alot of people around me feel the same.

My question was: "What will be the result of todays worldwide financial crisis."
Hexagram 7 unchanged

 

[willowfox]

Hex 7 is about order, discipline and control, so the result will be eventual stability in the world markets.

 

[thornad]

or some form of Martial Law ?

 

[Tohpol]

Yes, interesting answer. Stability may be the eventual result - and that's the positive thing about all this financial upheaval - but not for a long time. I think Hex 7 is much more pertinent to the current situation which does imply the Legion, Army and the implementation of the military in some shape or form to quell dissent. In fact, the troops are already in place to do just that. However, let's hope that doesn't happen.

It could also mean marshalling one's resources and become more independent and self-sufficient as the present financial system breaks down. Or, finally it could represent a mixture of all the above which is what I suspect will happen. Either way, very pertinent hex imo.

Army, Legions. A later meaning: teacher, master.

Oracle

'The Army, constancy.
Mature people, good fortune.
Not a mistake.'

The character for ‘mature’: hand + ten, measuring land. A male elder, a mature person, one who measures – one with an overview? To enjoy good fortune and avoid mistake, don’t let your army be run by the hot-headed youngsters.

Overall meanings: assuming responsibility, getting organised, taking on a ‘campaign mindset’ so that everything focusses in on a central goal.

Image

'In the centre of the earth is a stream. The Army.
Noble one accepts the ordinary people to gather together crowds.'

The earth doesn’t discriminate between raindrops, and so there is a powerful river below the earth. Noble one likewise, when recruiting for the army, needs to accept everyone, even the very ordinary-looking ones.

Advice when you have a goal in mind: accept and recruit your whole self. That includes the underground emotion-currents that can be extremely ‘ordinary’, probably not the kind of aspect of yourself you’d normally accept.

Sequence

From Hexagram 6, Arguing:

‘Arguing necessarily means that crowds rise up.’

First you react with indignation against the status quo; then you begin to gather resources against it. The point of grievance becomes the centre of a crowd. This happens on the interpersonal scale: there is an injustice, someone starts to campaign, people gather around them and form a big protest movement with real political power. It also happens within the individual: if you’re focussed on one thing you can’t accept, you start to gather all your energies and resources around that point.
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Topal

 

[ginnie]

Static hexagram 7

Tiny banks and big banks -- they all decided to stop lending to each other in the usual way, not even making the ordinary overnight loans to major corporations. This hoarding or lack of circulation of credit in the usual way is the most important aspect of the economic crisis.

"Circulation" to me means hexagram 7. The I Ching Concordance published in 2005 says the ideogram for 7 is a picture of a heart, meaning heart-sick and anxious, grieving, having cares and worries. The heart is the pump that keeps the blood circulating in the body. In the case of the money supply, the pump has stopped pumping. The collective force of money and credit are not circulating: Static hexagram 7.

Like a stream blocked up under the earth, the world money supply is being hoarded by the banks.

This means grief all over the world, affecting masses of people. The word "grieving" has always been associated with 7.

My interpretation may seem a little far-fetched, but there it is anyway.

 

[willowfox]

The ideograph for hex 7 features the symbol for a large crowd and the symbol for a circle or pivot, and depicts a very large crowd of people gathering around a centre or leader.

There seems to be no connection with either circulation or the heart as was suggested.

 

[mary f]

Just to recall, 10th wing says that Hexagram 7 is related to sadness.
Do you have the same intuition when reading?

 

[ginnie]

The movement in circles of the crowd bearing their banners around a leader is an image which is the same as the circulation of the blood around the heart. The blood does not move in random directions but flows only where it is supposed to go, driven by the motion of the heart, its central "pivot." Just as when a banner is flapping, waving, and circling in the wind, its motion is controlled by the central pole or standard to which it is attached. Just as when the crowds rise up into legions, their movements are directed by their leaders. The army is the very image of vigorous action along designated lines, controlled by a central leadership.

When I say that hex 7 means the healthy circulation of the blood, I am reading on the medical level. And I am thinking of money as the lifeblood of the worldwide economy.

Whether or not one accepts the image of hexagram 7 as the image of healthy blood or money circulation, hexagram 7 urges us to look at the whole system of which we are a part. The message of static hexagram 7 is to be as open and generous as possible to the needs of humanity seen on the largest possible scale.

Hexagram 7 means that, due to adverse circumstances, you accept the rule of the stronger over you, the weaker. That will usually be sad, don't you think? as when an inductee goes into the army or one must subject oneself to some hard discipline. In that case, one hopes that the strong leadership will adopt the most educated, lenient, and generous principles.

All this is represented by static hexagram 7.

 

[Trojina]

Hexagram 7 means that, due to adverse circumstances, you accept the rule of the stronger over you, the weaker. That will usually be sad, don't you think? as when an inductee goes into the army or one must subject oneself to some hard discipline. In that case, one hopes that the strong leadership will adopt the most educated, lenient, and generous principles.

All this is represented by static hexagram 7.

Interesting. Thinking of times one must surrender ones will to another, perhaps it is always sad (in a sense) like you say. I'm thinking of when one is ill, has to have surgery etc the whole experience of going into hospital is very 7 like isn't it. You know they take your personal things from you, even your clothes, you are subject to their routines and procedures but you go along with it because they have the skills, knowledge etc you need (you hope). One gives up ones individuality to be repaired. To the hospital staff your're a body rather than a person (to a degree of course).

I'm not sure I would always associate 7 with grief but you show an angle of 7 I've not been too aware of before...

 

[ginnie]

Submerged grief

Yes, such adverse circumstances will always cause us grief, but oftentimes we are not aware of the grief because these circumstances also cause us to submerge the side of us that reacts, and feels, and communicates how we feel. Hard self-discipline means that we must suppress our personal feelings. These become frozen, as if below ground.

Like frozen assets.

 

[ginnie]

The Abysmal Buried in the Belly of the Earth

I liked your analogy of a person being in the hospital, Trojan, because it gets very close to the matter at hand. When we're in the hospital and they take our clothes away and we're subject to doctor's orders, we hope to God our doctor has a brain in his head and some humanity in his heart.

Our body belongs to us, you know, not to the medical people to whom we are forced to entrust it from time to time.

Please think about this: Every one of our fears is related to our body. When we are sick, we worry if our body will ever get well enough again so that we can go back to work. The only reason we have to work in the first place is to pay the rent so the body has some place to live, and to buy food, because the body gets hungry. Many of our less attractive tendencies, like envy, hatred, and cruelty, come about because we see that other people have more stuff than we do to take care of and pleasure their bodies, or we feel we're lacking something on the physical level. And the drive to have a sexual partner is almost entirely bodily, especially in young people. This concept is represented by trigram K'an, the Abysmal.

Our whole system of taking care of our individual bodies is called into question by this crisis in the world monetary markets.

But we don't go about showing just how terrified we really are. We hide it. We bury it under a layer of docility, going along, waiting and being adaptive. The Abysmal buried under trigram K'un, adaptive Earth: this is Hexagram 7.

This is the state of mind now of the average person: tremendous fear about survival buried under a layer of docility and obedience to the powers that be.

Static Hexagram 7 calls us to stop thinking about ourselves as individuals. It says:
We're all in the same boat.

Banks often these days make the mistake of really believing that the money we have placed on deposit with them belongs to them. It does not belong to them. It is our money. They are supposed to only be the custodians of it. We need the use of our money every day of our lives. They have no right to hoard our money and refuse to circulate it. Perhaps our leaders will be enlightened and see how they might rectify this most unfortunate crisis in the circulation of money and credit.