Clarity,
Office 17622,
PO Box 6945,
London.
W1A 6US
United Kingdom
Phone/ Voicemail:
+44 (0)20 3287 3053 (UK)
+1 (561) 459-4758 (US).
"Unchanging, this situation can mean the RETURNING to the beginning of one of your old familiar cycles or patterns. The trigram CHEN, movement, is arousing from below K'UN, receptivity, into a repeated cycle of activity. Throughout your life you will recognise occurrences that are not simply random, but a part of your own particular pattern. You may perceive this all too familiar pattern as neurotic or, perhaps, as the security of being your Self. Naturally,, the better your attitude about certain fated conditions in your nature, the more pleasurable your life becomes."
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"Thunder dwelling in the centre of the earth: Returning.
The ancient kings closed the borders at winter solstice.
Itinerant merchants did not travel,
The prince did not tour the regions."
In winter nothing moves or grows: thunder dwells quietly at the centre of the earth. When spring comes, it will surge up and rouse everything to new life. But at present it is barely beginning to stir: winter solstice, darkest moment of the year, is when light just begins to return.
The ancient kings cared for their people as the earth covers a dormant seed. They contained people's impulse to rush out and resume business as usual, so that the energy for growth would not be squandered in the depths of winter. This is the turning point on your path, a moment to be still and turn inward to listen for little glimmerings and inklings of awareness, to nurture the seeds of a personal sense of direction.
We obtain this hexagram when we are about to "split apart" from our path, or after we have already done so, by reviving old methods of defending ourself or strategies for dealing with problems. Return means: return to the path, fall back on acceptance and humility, not letting doubt cause us to argue, make claims, use leverage or force. Return is aided by keeping still within. We should not allow our ego to go on arguing or even complaining.
susan
In the interest of being helpful I am posting a q with the result
I asked should I go to xxxx
24 unchanging
Seemed like a good response, alarming though to read the imagery "the ruler does not travel through the provinces" which I ignored and went at 5 pm (is that a solstice?)
Anyway it was to pick up a check at a job I had quit and when I went the check wasn't there, the person I spoke to said the boss probably mailed it. Which she had and I got it in mail 2 says later (minus the tips).
So that's my 24 unchanging story.
I received 24uc this morning to describe today and making the best of it.
24 is still not 100% clear to me, because of the lingering question: return to what? There's implications of not going out the gate, in fact closing the gate, which also allows no one or nothing inside. Simultaneously, it is the return of yang (strong line at the bottom), which is still hidden, as the dragon is hidden in 1.1. I get the impression that being unsettled is part of the condition of 24, due to the combination of coming and going of "friends". Often friends seem to refer to aspects of ones own personality, or things someone instinctively responds positively to. For instance, to get the sudden powerful impulse to play music or express oneself can be part of returning to life. But also a way of turning inward.
24 always feels something of an unsolvable paradox. The end is the beginning, the beginning is at the end. Not like 49's seasons, but at the polar opposites of coming and going, turning inward and turning outward, but not leaving the orbit. That means there are two returns for every orbit.
Just a thought.
Clarity,
Office 17622,
PO Box 6945,
London.
W1A 6US
United Kingdom
Phone/ Voicemail:
+44 (0)20 3287 3053 (UK)
+1 (561) 459-4758 (US).