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what have i already done really well re: Natasha?

Your reading resulted in the following hexagrams:

63

Hexagram 63, Already Across

Key Questions

What is decided?
What now?

Oracle

'Already across, creating small success.
Constancy bears fruit.
Beginnings, good fortune – endings, chaos.'

You have committed yourself and made a transition. Even if the change so far is internal, a resolve formed or decision made, there is a sense in which everything is in place. Now you create success in small ways and in small things: you attend to details, working with what you've already decided or achieved. In following through, you stay loyal to your original reasons for making the crossing.

The Zhou forded the river and overthrew the Shang dynasty. As they established their rule, they had in mind how the Shang once received the Mandate of Heaven to replace a corrupt dynasty. Now the Shang had forfeited the Mandate and were ending in chaos, while the Zhou enjoyed fortunate beginnings. Might the story repeat itself? It's easier to create new, clear-cut patterns for living than to live by them.

It's not that what you have begun here must inevitably fall apart. Only if you feel as if you've 'arrived' already and let yourself come to a halt, then you lose your path and then it all falls apart. Work with what you've accomplished so far, and keep your momentum: keep on beginning.

Image

'Stream dwells above fire: Already Across.
A noble one reflects on distress and prepares to defend against it.'

Sequence

Already Across follows from Hexagram 62, Small Exceeding:
'Going past others naturally means crossing the river, and so Already Across follows.'

Pair

Already Across is paired and contrasted with Hexagram 64, Not Yet Across
'Already Across: calm and settled.'
'Not Yet Across: exhaustion of the male.'

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