Your Experiences with Unchanging Hexagrams - Hexagram 50

[legume]

quite a while ago I asked how to maintain my autonomy without crossing the boundaries of others. 50 uc was the answer. aside from reading the judgement and image that seemingly point to the idea of a vessel and inner enlightenment, at the time I took it as step by step guidelines:
- first to empty myself of whatever stagnates;
- then to appreciate, learn to value and evaluate what I've already got;
- allow the vessel to observe itself until it achieves a clear conscience;
- remember that without a solid base it's easy to lose balance and difficult to hold your ground;
- by forgetting oneself one remembers one's true nature and attains approachable attitude;
- by taking the middle path one can become mild and pure, solid and resistant like precious jade.

in the meantime I had my ups and downs, but I see progress in achieving "cauldron" mindset more often. unfortunately in the past couple of months my job's become too much of a challenge and recently brought me again to a boiling point. so as i woke up today to a pile of ever urgent e-mails and did my best to go through them by lunch, with 3 deadlines on my neck and constantly incoming messages, I asked I Ching - what if i ignored work for the rest of the day? and I'm back in the cauldron.

already a week ago I applied for a position at another company and was planning to wait few more weeks before hitting more doors but all of a sudden an even more interesting and matching offer popped up and I was glad to have waited, as had saved another posting by same employer, but I might have a better chance with this newly posted job. and so I spent the rest of the day on my application. as I worked through my CV and cover letter I got a much better sense of what I'm actually after and what I have to offer, and that in turn immediately gave me a broader outlook on the whole "career" situation. I missed few important calls and most likely will have to face the consequences next week but this also could be just what the situation needed to clarify itself (since the ongoing lack of structure and ownership within my department have reached the unmeasurable levels of ridiculous absurd and communicating the need for extra resources to the management didn't help while directors themselves hopelessly left)...

50 uc feels like coming home, back to my senses and back to myself, problems fade away and from clarity arises the right course of action. ambition doesn't matter as matters take shape of a bigger picture.

 

[Liolik]

Asked question about elderly Guinea pig who’s been getting sick again and again. I did think right away a vessel meant a ashes urn. Read through the hex explanation and it didn’t come across as success/positive outcome. Week later my piggy died and I did cremate her. I was with her all the time and at the moment of passing I was chanting mantras to her ear in hopes her spirit can join the realm of god and will never need to be born into physical world to go through suffering again. So there’s a transformation mentioned in the hex. The image was exactly what was gonna happen. Even the predecesing hex talks about her health condition-radical change.

 

[steve]

Hi, my experiences are very similar to what I am reading above. To me, when you actually receive the reading you sometimes have no idea what it means pertaining to what you have asked. However, usually things are happening that you are not aware of. Usually in a postive way, my example is when I had a really stressful week. Then kind of sheepishly asked whats next, a few days later it was like a veil was lifted and I could see the hard work i was doing was taking form.

In a literal sense as opposed to a more spiritual one, its like making a french onion soup, I have a reciepe that I make its kind of a half irish/french version where i go heavier on the onions and white wine but keep a strong beef stock with plenty of potatoes. The thing is it just simmers away while the shanks get tender, i will cook it for 6 hours sometimes.

When you start chopping etc, you never know how good it will be until its ready. There is an element of being unaware in 50 unchanging. However, it is quite fortunate advice, and appears you are on path, have the resources and thats a good thing. Just don't start adding unfamiliar ingredients I would say. Stay on path and see what the results are.

I often recieve positive answers from Yi when feeling down, or answers that knock me off my perch when I think everything is place. Reminds me of conversations I used to have with my mother haha.

 

[Syrah70]

I received 50 UC a few days ago after asking how to go about the situation with my husband. After having endured two major hurricanes we were (in hindsight) both stressed out. I knew for myself I was still running on adrenaline. We had an argument and he dashed out and stayed away, after telling me he’d wish things were just the way they were before I moved. (After a years-long process I finally was able to move across the globe.) Not knowing what to make of it, I decided to just go about things around the house. At that point we had already been out of power for almost a week, had quite some damage (luckily not to the extend of many others in my county and the surrounding ones) Also everything stashed away needed to be put back in place. At night with poor cell phone reception, no wifi obviously, I turned here for a reading, which resulted in 50 UC. Somehow I was baffled to get an unchanging hex, plus 50 on top of that. I took it to ignore my upset ego and to carry on with the set tasks ahead. Whatever would come next, it would be fine.

He returned the next day after work and I chose to ignore him, entirely opposite of what I would normally do. Somehow I knew, emboldened by hex 50, that it was the correct way to go about things. The next day I helped my neighbour whose house got flooded to empty it. I hadn’t spoken to her much because everybody seems to be much to themselves here. It turned out that we have much in common and talking to her and the friend who was helping her too, made me stayed focus on the tasks. Unexpectedly it also gave me the chance to discuss the IChing with them. When power came back on that afternoon we were all thrilled. I returned home and began doing all the mundane matters like laundry, etc. I cleaned the house like it was a spring cleaning, probably to keep me occupied too. And to be honest I really enjoyed it.

When my husband returned after work he cooked dinner. He’s really good at cooking . We still hadn’t exchanged a single word by then. When he offered me food I kindly declined. Not because out of spite but I just couldn’t eat. I still felt literally sick to my stomach about the situation. We both continued do our own thing in silence.

Today however he came home really late. And we started talking. We sat down and had a real conversation as a start to work things out. We’re definitely not there yet, but we’ll get there.

I still don’t know what the “ingredients“ were/are to fill the vessel, but I am grateful for the experience and also the way I handled it, completely opposite to my usual behavior.