Your reading

how does it help her?

Your reading resulted in the following hexagrams:

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58		17

Hexagram 58, Opening

Key Questions

How can you fully enjoy the moment?
What are you bringing to expression?
What if you communicated and exchanged more freely?

Oracle

'Opening, creating success.
Constancy bears fruit.'

The early Chinese character for 'Opening' shows someone with words rising from their mouth: they seem to be dancing and singing. It means joyful and outgoing expression that opens up communication.

Opening brings people together and begins a lively creative process of sharing and exchange. It liberates human energies, motivates people to overcome hardship and encourages perseverance.

Image

'Lakes joined together: Opening.
A noble one joins with friends to speak and practise together.'

Sequence

Opening follows from Hexagram 57, Subtly Penetrating:
'Entering in and then rejoicing, and so Opening follows.'

Changing Lines

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.'

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