Your Experiences With Unchanging Castings - Hexagram 1

[heylise]

http://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/friends/showthread.php?t=9169
http://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/friends/showthread.php?t=9566
http://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/friends/showthread.php?t=8452
http://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/friends/showthread.php?t=13564
http://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/friends/showthread.php?t=8926
http://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/friends/showthread.php?t=8086
http://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/friends/showthread.php?t=9696

Three about ending something and starting something different. From job to broken heart.
One with the same meaning I got: a straight A/1 for something well done.
A noble one owing to his own strength never ceases

 

[hilary]

...Hilary had expressed interest in collating experiences on unchanging castings, but we didn't talk about how. I'd thought of doing them in order and saving them in a way that would be easy to find and added to in the future as anybody has additional thoughts. But I think Hilary should say how it fits best into the website or is most useful if she wants to use the information for something later on.

Just like you're doing it - with one thread per hexagram - is great. Simple and usable. I hadn't actually thought about where else the information might go or be used... maybe someone will summarise the ideas (hah!) and add an 'unchanging' section to each hexagram in WikiWing...

 

[Trojina]

http://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/friends/showthread.php?t=9169
http://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/friends/showthread.php?t=9566
http://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/friends/showthread.php?t=8452
http://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/friends/showthread.php?t=13564
http://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/friends/showthread.php?t=8926
http://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/friends/showthread.php?t=8086
http://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/friends/showthread.php?t=9696

Three about ending something and starting something different. From job to broken heart.
One with the same meaning I got: a straight A/1 for something well done.
A noble one owing to his own strength never ceases

I meant there were numerous threads discussing unchanging hexagrams in general and what they meant that would be hard to find....not hexagrams about 1 unchanging whcih are of course easy to find

Threads about unchanging hexes in general won't be in the hexagram index as they would originally have been in exploring divination

 

[heylise]

O yes, I see.
Maybe with Google, just searching for unchanging or static... Going to try.

 

[heylise]

This is an interesting one:
http://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/friends/showthread.php?t=10588
A clear case of static - no use to do anything:
http://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/friends/showthread.php?t=11664
Hilary about unchanging hexagrams:
http://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/I_Ching_community/e-answers74.html
http://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/friends/showthread.php?t=299
Bradford:
http://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/friends/showthread.php?t=479
Every time I click on 'next' there are more pages to go.. no end to it, so I stop here.

 

[heylise]

Could it be that an unchanging hexagram is like a tarot card? They have no lines either, they give an image of a situation or time or whatever you ask.
Death does not always mean something negative, or someone dying. It can be a necessary end, or a disastrous one, or the casting off of something obsolete and lots of other meanings. Most people have no problem with those different meanings. Same way hex.1 can be an image of strength, of endurance, of cold fate, of greatness, of impossibility (something too big) for a mortal being, of gods supervising what you are doing, of something needing to be created, of the power to do that, of something which overpowers you and so on.

 

[hilary]

That reminds me of, years ago, thinking maybe a relating hexagram was a bit like a position in a tarot spread.

 

[heylise]

A relating hexagram is also an unchanging hexagram. If I see it as the situation, the first hexagram is the one that gives advice how to act best in these circumstances.

Last autumn there had been a change which gave me more freedom. A big obstacle had been removed. When I asked about the day (a bit more than just this day, rather this time), I got 12/1,2,3 changing to 1.

Trigram Earth changes in its entirety to trigram Heaven. Now I can let things happen, I don't have to fight for them. Be like the earth, just give them the space to grow, and the rest comes by itself.

Great time of creativity, dragons playing everywhere, sun and clouds and rain and warmth, the possibilities are unlimited.

 

[g77777]

I wanted to contribute to this thread with a recent post to Shared Readings. I include the entire request that I had posted. I had only one reply, but when I thought further myself and thought about the couple, the 3 things that came to mind were true love, strong spiritual connection (both had commented on this) and perserverance. There was the additional quality of untapped or unrealized potential. Does ths make sense to others with more experoience with the Hex. This couple has been fighting to be together for 3 years.

The question is:

Is x going to return to y?

Context:

Two people separated by cultural and family issues who want to be together. One is waiting for the other to work through these obstacles. Family doesn't want the relationship to take place on one side, and there has been a lot of resistance.

Yi reply.

Hexagram 1 unchanging

Analysis:

I don't have a lot of experioence wth this hex. What I have understood from reading previous posts, it has something to do with energy building toward action or the need to take action. Maybe in this case is saying that the things are beginning to move in a new direction or a decision to take action is being made or the timing is right??? I don't really know.

 

[Trojina]

bear in mind the answers you get when asking about others may well be applying to yourself, your involvement ....infact as i said in your pregnancy thread i think this kind of question is generally quite pointless. If you want facts you need to communicate with those involved. if you want to help them you could ask Yi how to help ? Just asking what others are doing can bring very confusing answers and you still won't know for sure whats happening

If you are freinds with these people why not ask them...otherwise its just speculation what 1 might mean here...nothing definate

 

[g77777]

Trojan,

Ahhh...your wish is our wish.

My friend is y. We don't know what x is going to do. As I am a friend of y, I am also disallowed access to x by the family. There is a lot of money involved in the potential marriage of x for x's family. Y is very anxious which is why we turned to the Yi.

[FYI to all: there were further casts to the Yi in that thread to illuminate the initial cast (what is "perserverance in the right" for both x and y). You can see more in the original thread (hex 1 unchanging love triumphs over culture??).]

I only was contributing to this idea of the unchanging 1. I provided the initial query to give the experts a complete picture.

ANYWAY...

I am so glad it is you who replied since it was your post that inspired mine!

I still wonder whether hexagram 1 may be also describing the invisible energy, the proverbial "connection" that we believe exists between people. Is Love Hex 1? Is "soulmate"? Is guardian angel?

It was actually your post that got me thinking about the link between your earlier post and this example. I think you had written (was it you?) about having a vision and seeing that same person later. You had cast a yi about the matter and had gottten 1 uc.

This had also triggered this thought: In the case of x and y, perseverance has played a critical role. When I read about the vision, I wondered what would have happened that day if you had shared your vision with the person in it.... There could have been an exchange wanting to happen that would have changed the course of one or both of your lives.

What if you had taken action (many have contributed the element of action needing to be taken here and in other threads on 1? Maybe it was a 1 because it was the Yi knowing that this was a potential deep connection that wasn't going to be acted upon. Don't know.I think it is the human mind that when have experiences like these we immediately tend to believe the purpose is romance when maybe something completely different is wanting to happen.

So anyway, hex 1 unchanging--the invisble world of energy?
Thought before form?
Energetic cornnections between people?
Intention before manifestation?
Psychic energy?
Revelation before realization?
Divinity?
The unborn before birth?
Feeling before expression?
Desire before action?
Tremble before volcano eruption?
The transition of death and new life?
Unawaress before awareness?
The end of the circle before the beginning? The Wu Wei of Tai Chi?
The synapse before movement?
The saving before the spending?

Is 1 the unseen, unknown, unformed, the Tao?

We as humans tend to value action and undervalue states of being. We actually reward action, especially even quick responses. Does 1 speak to the vast unknown world of what comes before, the sheer potential of humans to do and be?

G 7's

 

[meng]

So anyway, hex 1 unchanging--the invisble world of energy?
Thought before form?
Energetic cornnections between people?
Intention before manifestation?
Psychic energy?
Revelation before realization?
Divinity?
The unborn before birth?
Feeling before expression?
Desire before action?
Tremble before volcano eruption?
The transition of death and new life?
Unawaress before awareness?
The end of the circle before the beginning? The Wu Wei of Tai Chi?
The synapse before movement?
The saving before the spending?

Is 1 the unseen, unknown, unformed, the Tao?

We as humans tend to value action and undervalue states of being. We actually reward action, especially even quick responses. Does 1 speak to the vast unknown world of what comes before, the sheer potential of humans to do and be?

G 7's

Yes. :bows: Nice images, all.

Since tirelessness is a well known attribute of h1, I liken 1 to Shiva, who represents the three primary aspects of the divine: Creator, Preserver and Destroyer. I have seen 1 appear regarding life, death and continuance or transition from and to each, in practical readings, not only philosophical ones. He is Shiva to Parvati, or Avalokiteśvara to Kuan Yin.

I am personally most comfortable referring to this 1 principle as potential, or as the wave of potential to the particles of specifics. When we approach the whole of Yi, we approach it as 1. When we receive a specific answer, the wave of all potentials collapses into particular aspects of an answer. To interpret the answer requires use of both our creative and receptive facilities, or what can be called cognition.

 

[g77777]

I really benefited from your post Meng and have studied the deities you mention...

I have so little experience to draw upon with hex 1 unchanging and that this thread is so useful. Can you say more about the "tirelessness" of 1?

And in general to the group,

Since it has been many years since I have studied Taoism, someone else would be better qualified than me to comment. And my knowledge of the Yi is so rudimentary. Is the Tao closely linked to 1?

I also kept think of particle physics in 1. Charging the atoms?

I wish I had more examples of 1 unchanging to draw on! Seems like it is good to understand "the beginning." I do actually remember one example but couldn't find it in the archives in which mentally I felt that in that series of post, In that thread, felt that 1 unchanging meant life after death.

G7's

 

[meng]

Hi G7's,

To be clear, and you probably already surmised this, the connections to these deities are of my own doing, though I'm certain I'm not the first to make them. We are speaking metaphor and symbols of course. Since hex 1 includes the aspect of deity, I don't believe these associations to be a stretch.

The same is true of the connections to wave/particle quantum theory. I embrace these ideas. I do not view the Yijing as existing in a bubble, but Yijing scholars would haste to point out that these ideas in no way are officially a part of the original Zhouyi, at least not as far as we know. But the same can said of the more popular Yang/Yin connection to hexagrams 1 and 2, or for that matter, that of male and female. Yet to me, all these primary pairs of opposites are implied even if not literal. The ancient Maori tribe called them Father Sky, Mother Earth. "A rose by any other name is still a rose."

Symbolically, heaven (hex 1) can be illustrated by the circle, hence there is no beginning nor end, it is the alpha and omega. Tirelessness and constancy is therefore implied.

Earth is illustrated in its (her) 3-dimesional form, which is made from a straight line, which forms a square, which forms a cube. Hence the material world, or where heaven becomes manifest in myriad forms - Lao Tzu's (Laozi) 10,000 things. From this it's not difficult to arrive at such anecdotes as "the Father and I are one," or Thomas' "the Kingdom of Heaven is spread out upon all the earth, and men do not see it." Actually we do see it, we just don't recognize what we see as being manifestations of the attributes of heaven, the unseen becoming seen, the spirit becoming flesh, the potential becoming actualized. You yourself have pointed this out in your list of Creative attributes.

As far as the Dao or Tao, this is a discussion we've debated here on a few occasions over the years. If nothing else it has proven the saying that the Dao that can be named is not the Dao. I would not equate it to hex.1, nor 2, nor even the sum interaction of both. The best I could do is jump up and down, pointing to it.

 

[ginnie]

From R.L. Wing: "Without changing lines, Creative Power is a deeply significant omen. The trigram, Ch"ien, creativity, is repeated above and below. What you create now will be the basis and inspiration for what you experience next. As a result of any action you now take, your fate will be sealed. You may always trace back to the beginning, but there will never be an end to what you are about to set into motion."

I asked Yi if I should put alkalizing drops into our distilled water for drinking and cooking and Yi answered with hexagram 1 unchanging. As Alfred Huang says, the sound for the name of this hexagram is the same as the word that means health and vitality. So we started adding the drops and we noticed healthful effects for many years thereafter.

 

[kafuka]

I found 1 unchanging in my notes. I asked if an actress (an idol of mine) will win the PCA award. I saw the answer as a big thumbs up and yes, she won it.

 

[anemos]

I found 1 unchanging in my notes. I asked if an actress (an idol of mine) will win the PCA award. I saw the answer as a big thumbs up and yes, she won it.

I thought 1 un meant Yes when I asked Yi if a certain person would help after asking him a list of books I wanted. Never responded . H1 as NO surprised me but looking at the website of an affiliated with that person institution found the list. Perseverance - untiring might be Yi's response

 

[Bliss5702]

This made my heart happy. I read this post after opening another thread about hexagram 1 unchanging for working in the entertainment industry after a very hard hard hard 7-8 years. Your post gives me great hope.

 

[butterfly spider]

Hello. I usually cast the coins in ration to myself. Narcissist possibly. I have a 15 year old so. Who is a violinist at a specialist music school who also adores acting and anything extrovert. He is finding school restraints tricky. I taught him at home until he was 12 and asked I Ching then about his life and his future - I got hex 1 in hanging. I have just cast again and got hexagram 1 unchanging yet again - perhaps it is his energy coming through. Strangely my grandfather (who died 40 years ago) was the very first person to be my guinea pig on I Ching - my friend Paul had given me the Wilhelm book for Christmas in 1975. He got hexagram 1 in changing too. Don't know if there is a link but have been having dreams and coincidences about him recently.
Hex 1 is to do with that creative powerful energy I think - although it has always felt like the energy of waves or waterfalls - difficult to harness

 

[butterfly spider]

Sorry I meant to add that with in changing hexagrams I find that they indicate a state of being - ie you are in it and your influence is limited. It is as it should be. When there is a repeat of an in changing hexagram even years apart for the same question I feel that it is saying this is what it is - not reactive or passive just as it is.

 

[rosada]

Pluto, the planet of death and rebirth, and Mars, the planet ruling energy and anger, will both be slowing down and turning retrograde the middle of this month. As planetary energies are even more powerful when they are moving slowly having these two gods both so active at this time could portend something major, even violent. I asked the I Ching for an interpretation of how these energies would manifest and received Hex. 1 unchanging.

 

[kudra7]

Hello everyone. I know this post is a few years old and I never reply. I want to change that today because I always cast on my own then come here looking for similar readings to help with my interpretations of my own readings. A lot of times I see inquiries with no follow ups/outcomes and it is so frustrating.

I cast today 1 unchanging. My question was regarding a position I applied for employment. I received a call from a recruiter for a position. We were playing phone tag for a while and during that time I cast the 1 unchanging. I felt like it was a positive so I went looking and found this thread.

Well, I finally just spoke with the recruiter and it pretty much played out as Hillary and others stated. The position was a no go, however, the recruiter moved my resume on to someone that can help me and also gave me the name of another staffing agency that can help me.

So, no go with this particular position I inquired about but other creative opportunities offered.

Hope this helps. I can clarify any questions.

 

[Trojina]

Hello everyone. I know this post is a few years old and I never reply. I want to change that today because I always cast on my own then come here looking for similar readings to help with my interpretations of my own readings. A lot of times I see inquiries with no follow ups/outcomes and it is so frustrating.

Hi Kudra, these unchanging threads are for people to continue adding their experiences to so it doesn't matter that it's old. You are right, the more people feedback and share the more we learn, so thank you for posting your experience. Sounds like there really is creative energy and potential in your work search right now, it's just a case of finding a place for it to manifest (hexagram 2).

 

[li chien]

Pluto, the planet of death and rebirth, and Mars, the planet ruling energy and anger, will both be slowing down and turning retrograde the middle of this month. As planetary energies are even more powerful when they are moving slowly having these two gods both so active at this time could portend something major, even violent. I asked the I Ching for an interpretation of how these energies would manifest and received Hex. 1 unchanging.

Hi Rosada,
I wonder if hex 1 as initiation into the cosmic cycle and as the archetypal alpha and also that notion of Mars as the ruler of Aries as the natural first house and so initiator of all movement into new cycles (as we invade and battle into new territories in our life journey) is feeding comfortably and easily into the interpretation of hex 1 here.

Also Pluto is in many ways like the threshold or doorway between old death and new life and is transformational order between the end and the beginning of things. So perhaps both represent the energy of renewal in the greater cycles between lives much as hex 1 does as creation and initiation.

When I have done some Yi related horary work in the past (ie interpreting outcome of events based upon the timing of a question) on things like what is the nature of Yi I was initially surprised that whenever part of question was about Yi as a practice of divination the ruling planet would usually be Mars or it would be on an angle of the chart and that it would also be in a relationship with Uranus which in many ways is the map of Astrology. It wasn't till I realised that Mars is ruling the cracking of things (like a tortoise shell for instance) especially by cutting or heating it (Mars) and also Mars ruled much of early divination when based upon the spilling blood or sacrificing of animals as a way to read the best course of action in the future of things.

Of all the planets tho that most remind me of the nature of hex 1 it would be Uranus as original sky God, very much like the conceptual mind of God and as a glimpse into the dna of the working heaven itself. Uranus as the impersonal heavenly father was also first received by the earth as mother and the womb of all things... which for me is also much the story of hex 1 and hex 2 and their relationship in the shared scheme of manifestation.

Tho I am a bit unsure how the retrogradation plays in here with hex 1 unchanging as at first I thought that retro periods tends to bring chaos as we revisit the nature and themes of recent experiences with the retrograde energy and re-visit and re-experience how it manifested in our lives so that we can have a second go at them. Always a bit of a grind as the wheel goes back over us again.

Hex 1 seems to nevertheless be much more about going forward than backward but maybe the unchanging relates more about the static period between a planet going retro and also when they later go direct as if it can seem to be a point in time where the great universal machine apparently (to us only from our earthly viewpoint) it stops just long enough for us to get a glimpse and experience a point in time when change itself is seemingly suspended and all we are left with is the purity of realisation of that specific energy itself as it is removed from all other context. That is very much just an idea tho as I am only starting to get my head around the nature of a hex unchanging (thanks to this forum)... and also the way unchanging hex in some ways feels a bit like a void of course moon but that again is very much an early, unformed speculation. Probably just like so many things when it comes to heaven and earth and all things in between.

 

[veavea]

Looking back through my journal and I seem to have case 1uc when I've had a slight disagreement or instant of tension with someone or something - although in fact what I think the examples have in common is sense of decisiveness or cutting through the crap (or trying to). I suppose in that way it's the essence of 43, where 1 is the nuclear?

Looking back to Li Chien's post above, there is something perhaps about the moment before creation - so, for instance, the beginning of the Bible where it says something about the face of God moving over the waters - but before anything actually was created. The energy was latent and about to be.

Linking that to my very mundane journal examples and it makes me feel as though there's something about my own latent energy just lurking beneath the surface and about to manifest - or maybe a more universal energy manifesting through me. But it's something 'real' as opposed to illusory - so yes, to be mundane, to cut the crap, but also to be Real, to manifest Truth in some form.

 

[Liselle]

One of several readings about my lack of progress on a project. At first I thought 1uc just meant something like "you're frustrated" - which just made me more frustrated (and annoyed).

But after a while, I came to see it as advice: get going (initiating), keep moving, and maintain momentum (heaven doesn't stop).

Not that I didn't already know those things, but I think Yi was reminding me and pointing out it's a key to getting done. For example, I dither around in the morning on everything else I can think of. Change that one thing, and it might make a big difference.

 

[galatea11]

Greetings,

Usually I do a daily reading each morning to help me focus my thoughts and energy. Sometimes one of my cats (always the same one) will not allow me to do a reading. He bats the pen out of my hand, runs away with one of the coins in his mouth, throws his whole body across my I Ching journal, etc. On these days I tend to give up on a new reading and simply focus on the one I received the previous morning. This happened two days ago so I reverted my thoughts back to the unusual (at least for me) 1 UC reading from 24 hours earlier. Afterward I left on a long-distance errand, stopping to photograph an amazing piece of street art featuring an owl's face on an unoccupied lot. Feel compelled to mention that detail because owls have had odd symbolism in my life before. Anyways, 15 minutes or so later I saw an injured kitten writhing in pain on the side of the road. A fellow motorist helped me put the kitten in a box and I used Google to find a vet in this unfamiliar area. First clinic had no vet on duty but second clinic had a wonderful vet who raced into the room and then pronounced the kitten dead. I said a prayer for the kitten and paid for its cremation, still quite rattled. Not sure why this happened or of its relation to 1 UC but something Hilary posted on page 1 of this thread resounds with me:

Next morning I heard my father had died suddenly in the night. Then 1 unchanging came back to me and didn't so much 'make sense' as it sustained me with its/his presence.

I think it's all one basic idea of 1 unchanging: the spirit or inspiration or energy that isn't embodied/ realised is no less real for that.

Of course I'm not equating the death of an unfamiliar kitten with the death of one's father but I've been thinking of the kitten since the episode and our fleeting earthly contact has touched me in a good way, reminding me to focus more on the living creatures who surround me and spread as much love as possible before I, too, head into the "Great Beyond". I hope the dear kitten felt my love before it passed and still feels it now. One of my cats (the I Ching reading interruptor) just jumped into my lap as I was typing these words.

 

[Trojina]

Thank you so much for sharing this experience of 1uc. How sad but also

I hope the dear kitten felt my love before it passed and still feels it now.

Of course :bows:

 

[toblindfoldher]

I've been having a bad case of trigger fingers in the mornings since I started cycling. It subsides when I get up and start moving around. Today though my fingers were still locking as I was having lunch.

So I asked, what should I do about my hand? 1UC - the dynamic, action, movement. I grabbed a 2lb dumbbell and did some bicep curls. 10reps later my fingers regained flexibility.

The Superior Man makes himself strong and untiring.

 

[toblindfoldher]

A related development-
Reading through this thread, I got the idea that hex 1 can refer to a father figure. I told my stepdad (the man of the house) about my hand situation and asked if he knew where I could buy a stress ball.

Immediately he handed me a pair of harmony balls/angel callers/Mexican bolas. I'm supposed to spin them around in my hand like David Bowie as the Goblin King in that Jim Henson movie "Labyrinth". Very hex 1 too, if you ask a teenage boy with a hypersexual sense of humor...........

Anyway, these balls make heady chime sounds and happen to have the taijitu/yinyang symbol and yijing trigrams on them! And they do work in keeping my fingers lithe even as I type on my phone with my other hand.