It seems to me there are a couple of issues here. There’s the question you choose to ask – and one thing I’ve learned is that there’s no earthly point explaining about a ‘better’ question to someone who’s utterly preoccupied with a relationship. The issue that’s keeping someone awake at night just has to be addressed first.

And then there’s the answer received. If it goes way beyond what I asked, can I hear it? Or if I’m reading for someone else, how can I help them to hear it? I know this is about 98% beyond my influence, but I want to learn how to improve my 2%…

I found your blog through TarotByArwen on Twitter. I like what you have written here. I run into this situation regularly with my healing clients. I can “see” the question they need to ask, and if I bring this up to them, they more often than not, dismiss it and try to ask about something entirely unrelated.

Same definitely holds true for my reading clients. They come in with a certain question in mind, but the reading almost always goes to the information they actually need at this present time. Not all of them are willing to go in that direction, so they end up disregarding that part of the healing/reading and then I’ll see them again months later and they basically all say the same thing: “I should have listened!”

And so it goes.

I’m not clear on what distinction you’re making… but by 17.1 I mean the text for the first (bottom) line of the hexagram, the one you read if it’s moving. In the Wilhelm/Baynes translation, it’s:
“The standard is changing.
Perseverance brings good fortune.
To go out of the door in company
Produces deeds.”

When you say 17.1 is that hex 17 where the first line is the moving line, or the first line of the hex?

- maybe this isnt the place to ask about this, sorry for that, new to the site

Oh yes, asking and then ignoring, that’s a whole other blog post (/novel). It’s weird the things we do to ourselves…

Hi Eric,

Agreed, 17.1 uses the wall imagery in a similar way. 60.1 is subtly different. And is this revealing a pattern – are there more boundaries and barriers in line 1 than other lines?

Perhaps as an interesting contrast to line 2 of Hex 60, you might consider the image found in line 1 of Hex 17 which encourages emerging from the gate and mingling with what is outside.

Eric’s last blog post..

- Glen