I didn’t know the “Celestine” movie would be out soon. I’ll have to watch for it…thanks for that tip.

And, as always, thanks for a great newsletter.

The trigrams read “With/from guidance comes absolute trust in another/others” where the faith is in the ‘light’ for the individual as it is for the ‘anti-individual’ of the context. IOW both sides feel secure in their beliefs and so are not ‘likeminded’.

The generic form of 36 is described by analogy to the dampened qualities of 52 and so the generic concept in 36 is about issues of blockage, being stopped, discernment and so something ‘in side’. 52 covers a loss of a relationship other than its internal maintaining – it indicates suffering that transforms into an ‘inner light’ (very buddhist).

The judicial element is well covered in 06 with the ‘conflict’ being in a court of law and so a focus on the ‘middle’, court regulation of a situation.

We can check the meaning of 06 by reference to its spectrum – thus its ‘generic’ quality is described by analogy to 58 with its focus on intensity in expression and self-reflection. IOW there is a core element of cooperation on issues of replacement. 06 turns that replacement element into issues of coexisting (yin base line) and the trigrams read – “With/from containment comes singlemindedness”.

06 shares space with 47 and is the conditional element in that pair where 47 is unconditional – the intensity of the containment has no escape clause – but then the negative/positive element (in that all hexagrams can be interpreted either way) is where the enclosure of 47 forces the symbolised tree to drive its roots deep and so ‘integrate’ with the context – there is no escape.

If 58 describes by analogy the ‘mud’ of 06, so we see a range of states through ‘self-reflection/intense_expression through compromise (meeting half way) to ‘extreme’ in compromise where I bring my army to the border and so introduce a threat. The temporal element here is on past/future dynamics (what could have been/is not/could be) rather than the more pointed was/is/will be where the past/future terms have a ‘pointedness’ about them as if all is “NOW”.

By the way, I like the ideas in James Redfield’s books – it’s just the style of writing that annoys me. You know the ‘Celestine Movie’ is coming out soon? I’m looking forward to seeing it when it arrives here in the UK.

I have been following your earlier advice of doing a weekly reading (I “start the week out right” and do mine on Monday mornings.) Last Monday, my reading was 6:5 chaning to 64. You can imagine my surprise when this very reading arrived in my email a few minutes ago.

As it happens, I do like the James Redfield book referenced in the article, and reread it in February….coincidence upon coincidence here. (Of course, there is no such thing…)

Thank you for an excellent article, and that extra bit of insight into my week.

All the best,
Michelle