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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 6, Arguing

Key Questions

What are you arguing for?
If you can't win this one, what else can you do?

Oracle

'Arguing.
There is truth and confidence, blocked.
Vigilant and centred, good fortune. Ending, pitfall.
Fruitful to see great people,
Fruitless to cross the great river.'

You argue for what you need – for sustenance, or to be believed, or simply for justice – for you know in your bones that things are not as they should be. Yet no matter how deep and true your convictions, you find yourself frustrated, and your sense of being in resonance and connected with the world is choked off. It's important, now, to centre yourself in vigilance – in a heart open and alert to all the potentials for change, so you stay poised and capable of responsive movement in any direction. To freeze into a combative, defiant posture, holding onto your sense of wrongness to the bitter end, would not resolve conflict but only establish it in perpetuity. When frustrated and blocked, you need to see great people – those whose higher perspective enables them to see beyond the argument to a larger truth. Perhaps you can find that shift in perspective within yourself; perhaps you need to consult with someone wiser, who is outside the conflict. Meanwhile, it's fruitless to commit yourself further to your position out of sheer defiance.

Image

'Heaven joins with stream, contradictory movements: Arguing.
A noble one, starting work, plans how to begin.'

Sequence

Arguing follows from Hexagram 5, Waiting:
'Drinking and eating naturally mean Arguing.'

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