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Would be Cancun a good option for the honeymoon?

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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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Hexagram 3, Sprouting

Key Questions

What is beginning?
Where is the growing centre, and where can you find help for it?

Oracle

'Sprouting.
From the source, creating success, constancy bears fruit.
Don't use this to have a direction to go,
Fruitful to establish feudal lords.'

Sprouting is the very beginning: a growing centre, putting out roots into the unknown and breaking through the hard soil. Inner life reaches out into the world, experiencing resistance for the first time. The creative drive of heaven and earth joins together and grows. It's tiny, scarcely born, but burgeoning with life and a great desire to attain full growth.

It's far too early yet to narrow all the possibilities down to a single destination. Just as a plant sends out roots in all directions, a new ruler needs to set up a network of feudal lords. These are an image for helpers, human or otherwise: everything that brings you support and expands your sphere of awareness and influence. In exploring all possibilities, you enrich and strengthen the centre as growth begins.

Image

'Clouds, thunder: Sprouting.
A noble one weaves warp and weft.'

Sequence

'There is heaven and earth, and so the ten thousand things are born.
Overflowing the space between heaven and earth, the ten thousand things.
And so Sprouting follows: Sprouting means filling to overflowing;
Sprouting means the beginning of things' birth.'

Pair

Sprouting forms a pair with Hexagram 4, Not Knowing:
'Sprouting: seeing, and not letting go your dwelling place.
Not knowing: disordered and also clear.'

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