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what does kelly get from this?

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Hexagram 22, Beauty

Key Questions

How can you make the essence visible to others?
What do you choose to communicate?

Oracle

'Beauty. Creating success.
Small yield from having a direction to go.'

This is about natural beauty, like the beauty of a plant, whose form is the perfect, simple expression of its nature. It's also about the way people create images to communicate something of a person's or thing's inner nature.

This becomes a fruitful way to engage with the world when you have a purpose in mind – like someone who becomes a suitor for the sake of his bride, or a figure of authority for the sake of those she teaches. This is an image created for the sake of communication and relationship, as a first step towards a chosen destination.

Yet it only bears a 'small yield' because it is only a first, small step. Becoming something for someone is not sufficient to bring about significant results on its own – it's not the same as wholehearted conviction, or ultimate fulfilment. No created image could ever express a whole person.

So this is not a time to concentrate on results: it's a time for imaginative, lively exploration of beautiful ways the essence could flower and be seen.

Image

'Below the mountain is fire: Beauty.
A noble one brings light to the many standards, but does not venture to pass judgement.'

Sequence

Beauty follows from Hexagram 21, Biting Through:
'Things cannot carelessly unite and be completed, and so Beauty follows. Beauty means adorning.'

Changing Lines

Line 1

'Making your feet beautiful.
Putting away the carriage and going on foot.'

Line 3

'Beautiful, as if dipped in water.
Ever-flowing constancy, good fortune.'

Line 5

'Beauty in a hilltop garden.
A roll of silk: small, so small.
Shame.
In the end, good fortune.'


Hexagram 20, Seeing

Key Questions

When you stop searching, what comes into view?
If you had no preconceptions, what might you see?

Oracle

'Seeing. Washing hands, and not making the offering.
There is truth and confidence like a presence.'

To see is not to focus on some specific thing, but to witness everything that comes into view, with open awareness like a heron seeing a lake.

In the ritual, the everyday world is washed off – and then there is a breathless pause. It is not yet time to make the offering, but only to watch for what comes, 'like a presence', into the space. In ordinary life, also, you can pause before falling automatically into the next step of the process, and see what is present before you respond. Into this space between actions comes truth, its presence as unmistakable as a great person's aura. You need only watch for it as it comes.

Image

'Wind moves over the earth: Seeing.
The ancient kings studied the regions,
Saw the people,
And established their teachings.'

Sequence

Seeing follows from Hexagram 19, Nearing:
'What is great allows Seeing.'



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