posted August 03, 2007 03:52 AM
artlovesdawn, Thank you for your reply. I use the online version, but it seems pretty accurate. I tried using coins and I don't think I throw them correctly LOL. What do you use?
I am curious about the interpretation. From what I have seen so far, sometimes the hexagrams matter, other times it is the changing lines that matter.
For instance, I never understood why a positive hexagram changes into another positive hexagram, but the changing lines are not so positive...
For example, hexagram 46 (Pushing upward), changing in hexagram 35 (Progress) and the changing lines were:
Change in the second place means:
If one is sincere,
It furthers one to bring even a small offering.
No blame.
Change in the third place means:
One pushes upward into an empty city.
Change in the fourth place means:
The king offers him Mount Ch'i.
Good fortune. No blame.
Change at the top means:
Pushing upward in darkness.
It furthers one
to be unremittingly persevering.
I use the Wilhelm translation btw and another one which seemed accurate to me, from www.dreamhawk.com
The question was whether someone has feelings for me; at a first glance, I would be tempted to say the answer is a pretty positive one; but all the lines hold a trick, except for the 4th one, which seems the most positive one...
Also, 2 negative hexagrams can have positive changing lines. I asked if I will be together with this person and I got Hexagram 12 (Standstill, Stagnation) changing to hexagram 23 (Splitting Apart), with the changing lines:
Change in the fourth place means:
He who acts at the command of the highest
Remains without blame.
Those of like mind partake of the blessing.
Change in the fifth place means:
Standstill is giving way.
Good fortune for the great man.
"What if it should fail, what if it should fail?"
In this way, he ties it to a cluster of mulberry shoots.
The first hexagram shows the current situation, this I can say... but I don't know what to make of the relating one (it can be linked to the past, the present and I guess, also the future... it is a long distance thing).
So there are times when the general meaning of the hexagrams sticks with me, other times, the lines are the ones more accurate. But is my approach to this wrong? I am still learning and I am sure I am making some mistakes.
Oh, and I have one more question. There are times when I just don't see the connection between my question and the I ching answer. I am thinking that maybe I am not always really focusing on the question and perhaps I have other thoughts in my mind - do you think the I Ching is saying something relating to my other thoughts?
I am curious about your opinions and I am looking forward to discuss these matters and learn from you!
Izo