Comments on: An idea about Hexagram 22

By: Kevin

Kevin — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 05:40:09 +0000

I see some things indicating legal trouble with this hexagram. I am deciding whether to send a letter but this letter might get me into trouble with legal stuff… the first trigram I got was
14 with 9’s in the 2nd and 4th positions then the change hexagram was number 22. I am wondering whether I should send or not send any advice?

By: Hilary

Hilary — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 09:11:26 +0000

Magic…? You mean, the charged appearances that create a reality?

Your experience with 22 in love and marriage is interesting. It’s certainly about courtship and devotion, but I haven’t always seen it lead to great love. Line 6, for instance, has been known to signal, ‘What you see is exactly what you get… it’s not as if he were misleading you…’

By: Gregorio

Gregorio — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 03:39:52 +0000

My experience is that this the best hexagram as to the matters of love/marriage and such. Especially lines 3 and 4, it almost inevitably leads to the great plateau of great love that we simultaneously fear and desire our entire lives, but that leads to the next great stage in life: living and sharing one’s life with the being that seems fatally meant to be.
This hexagram is all about magic, iMO.

By: libramoon

libramoon — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 22:01:24 +0000

Fire in the Mountain

Moving into the darkest night
Alert to each crinkle in the texture of time
Alert to minute sounds and startled motion
There is a flame in the darkness
Warm, bright, alively intense in color
sparks flying, singing singing
soft and low, then more urgent, louder
singing, entrancing, bringing ever closer
attention away from the night from the cold.
Worship that flame.
Give it your deepest oath of fealty.
Be it’s bosom ally, it’s shadow, it’s child.
Bring it into your deepest, strongest part
and grow with it, together,
each protected,
dark earth intertwined with flame.

By: chris lofting

chris lofting — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 13:04:31 +0000

using the IC to describe itself through the binary sequence and XOR-ing - 22 has an infrastructure that is described by analogy to 15. The overall focus is on covering up, levelling out, glossing over, facade and so ‘beautify’. There is a sense of using the outside to draw attention away from viewing the inside. This is reflected in the 36,22 PAIR where 36 is unconditional in covering-up, 22 is conditional (particular ;-))

If we focus on how 22 ‘begins’ - and so the 24-ness aspect - we find analogy to 52 and so the focus on use of blocking/stopping to move us into discernment and quality control.