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what does Goleta Gyrl get from seeing this post?

Your reading resulted in the following hexagrams:

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17   49

Hexagram 17, Following

Key Questions

How are things flowing, and how can you move with them?
Where are you being nudged and guided?

Oracle

'Following.
From the source, creating success, constancy bears fruit.
No mistake.'

Energy flows strongly into life's landscapes, bringing a great creative drive, from the source through towards fulfilment. Following it means a willingness to honour the flow and align actions with it. You can know your ideal, and then allow it to meld with the natural current, following signs and nudges and allowing them to draw you onward.

Then, you may experience Following as an effortless flow of supportive synchronicities – or you may experience it as events unfolding in accordance with their own schedule, and failing to keep to yours. It can seem as if simply allowing yourself to be guided by the current is not enough, and you ought to be 'doing something'. But moving with the creative process is not a mistake.

Image

'At the centre of the lake is thunder: Following.
A noble one at nightfall
Goes inside for renewal and rest.'

Sequence

Following comes from Hexagram 16, Enthusiasm:
'Enthusiasm naturally means Following.'

Pair

Following is paired and contrasted with Hexagram 18, Corruption.
'Following has no causes. Corruption, and then order.'

Changing Lines

Line 3

'Bound to the mature man,
Letting the small child go.
Following, there is quest and gain.
Settling with constancy bears fruit.'


Hexagram 49, Radical Change

Key Questions

How can you break the mould?
How must the form change to express the essence?

Oracle

'Radical change.
On your own day, there is truth and confidence.
From the source, creating success, constancy bears fruit.
Regrets vanish.'

It is time for transformation. The old Chinese character for 'Radical Change', which also means 'leather', shows an animal hide: this is change like a shaman's, putting on a new skin to change your identity. And it is also revolutionary change: this hexagram marks the day when the Zhou people and their allies marched out to meet the armies of the corrupt Shang dynasty, and defeated them. You change the governing principle, and bring about renewal.

In the moment of change, there is truth – sincerity and a sure knowledge. Then the power of the whole unfolding creative process, from the source through to fruition and fulfilment, can enter here and change the world. Naturally regrets vanish, along with the past to which they belong. The new time is coming.

Image

'In the centre of the lake there is fire: Radical Change.
A noble one calculates the heavenly signs and clarifies the seasons.'

Sequence

Radical Change follows from Hexagram 48, the Well:
'The way of the Well does not allow things not to change radically.'

Pair

Radical Change forms a pair with Hexagram 50, the Vessel:
'Radical Change puts away the old; the Vessel grasps renewal.'



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