YU {Delight}

[battyboy12]

As a science student, I view myself as pretty analytical, most of the time. I have been working for years on a theory of mine involving probability, statistics and people. I won't bore you with the details. Anyways, for the longest time, I was skeptical of my own theory- despite it being approved by experts in the fields of the social sciences, computer science and statistics.

Recently, I had a breakthrough idea that was sort of an add on to my theory and helped it make more sense to me. My skepticism subsided somewhat and now I do believe my theory is correct. However, what baffled me now was "why?" Why is the doubt now clear from my mind when I was right all along. So, I got out my Yijing coins and cast a hexagram.

The hexagram I got was Yu {No. 16. delight/Joy}. There were no moving lines. If anyone here can make any suggestions how this might apply to my case I would appreciate it greatly. Personally, my first personal interpretation is that this confirms my theory and that after a long mental battle, I have overcome my own self-consciousness and doubt. What do you think?

 

[Liselle]

16's Oracle (translation from Hilary Barrett's book) -
"Enthusiasm.
Fruitful to set up feudal lords and mobilise the armies."

Maybe your add-on idea served as a "feudal lord" - something to help you - and now you feel you've mobilized (organized, set into motion) the "armies"?

Also, 16 can be about images and stories. Maybe the "story" makes more sense to you now, feels more real, like an "organized army" than something you're just imagining?

The "long mental battle" you describe, that you've overcome, actually sounds like hexagram 39, Limping, which is the nuclear hexagram of 16. You may already know what that is - the hexagram formed by stacking lines 2-3-4-3-4-5 of your received hexagram. It's like a seed, something contained inside. Hexagram 39 is a long slog uphill, on a path that becomes increasingly difficult if not impossible, and its point is that you need to (a) turn around and find a better route, and (b) get help.

Sounds like maybe the add-on idea served both those purposes.

 

[battyboy12]

16's Oracle (translation from Hilary Barrett's book) -
"Enthusiasm.
Fruitful to set up feudal lords and mobilise the armies."

Maybe your add-on idea served as a "feudal lord" - something to help you - and now you feel you've mobilized (organized, set into motion) the "armies"?

Also, 16 can be about images and stories. Maybe the "story" makes more sense to you now, feels more real, like an "organized army" than something you're just imagining?

The "long mental battle" you describe, that you've overcome, actually sounds like hexagram 39, Limping, which is the nuclear hexagram of 16. You may already know what that is - the hexagram formed by stacking lines 2-3-4-3-4-5 of your received hexagram. It's like a seed, something contained inside. Hexagram 39 is a long slog uphill, on a path that becomes increasingly difficult if not impossible, and its point is that you need to (a) turn around and find a better route, and (b) get help.

Sounds like maybe the add-on idea served both those purposes.

Thanks. I also cast a hexagram for my theory itself. I asked if it was confirmed, and the first/past hexagram I got was Jie {number 60} with a moving line at the top which transformed it into 61, Zhong Fu. Perhaps I was feeling limited or restricted by my doubt and with this add-on, I now see the sincerity or truth. Any insights on this would be appreciated as well.

 

[kttuan]

hex 16: after a long time of research and now you shorten it, it became clear to you.

 

[Liselle]

Hello again, Battyboy12...I'm in a class Hilary's teaching on reading for other people. We discussed your reading as an example, and here are Hilary's thoughts on it, both evaluating my earlier response to you and adding her thoughts about your reading.

It sort-of sounds as though he already had all the 15 around his theory, but couldn't really believe it until he had the 16 for himself. I like what you said to him about the story seeming more real now. Since half the name of 16 is xiang , Image (as in that thing made of trigrams, also as in 'elephant'), you could also say the picture has become full colour and 3D. Someone turned the light on in the slide projector, if anyone knows what one of those is any more...

About 15-16... I have a half-articulated sense of 'parts and whole'... err...

You gather the evidence and it solidifies into a theory. People agree. All the little observations come together and constitute a whole. You have drawn a realistic black-and-white outline that corresponds to the data.

You have an Idea. You have a big shining technicolor picture. With this, you can mobilise armies: the small details will follow the big picture.

Also maybe sequence happened - maybe 'noble one completes it' = noble one develops the add-on theory?

I was watching Dragons' Den last night - I think the US equivalent is 'Shark Tank'? Optimistic entrepreneurs asking big cheeses for investment. This particular optimistic entrepreneur says he wants them to 'catch the vision'. (They don't, of course; they stick to the numbers and are not convinced.) OP seems to have just 'caught the vision' of his own idea, and to be a bit bemused by his own change of mind. Perhaps in his world, you're only supposed to believe or disbelieve things based on evidence?