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43 - Speak up but stay on yourself
44 - Go forth and multiply
Deciding forms a pair with hexagram 44, Coupling :
'Coupling means meeting, supple meets firm.'
Deciding means breaking up, firm breaks up supple.'
Hexagram 43 has five firm unbroken lines pushing out a single supple open line. They embody an assertion of identity that breaks through indecision. In Hexagram 44, the single open line finds it's way back.
The great power in the lower trigram, CH'IEN, strength, stimulates and brings to fruition, TUI, openness and words, above. Receiving this hexagram without change indicates that whatever your inquiry, the true struggle is within. Make a verbal RESOLUTION to throw out old opinions and experiment with new ideas. Only through determined, steady, open progress will change come.
43 uc always seems pretty stark to me. Decide !
There was a thread sometime ago with un 43 and a woman trying to decide. Will try to find it and plug it here. Was it where I said elimination ?
two reading the last month for two different issues. oscillating between A and B . Asked Yi "what needs to be done" just in case I was given a hint towards which direction to move. Answer; Plain, unchanging 43.
.I don't keep a diary of my readings so I don't recall other instances atm. one of the one's i mention had to do with a reason vs passion thingy. I have a little problem tho with Wilhelm's idea on reason vs passion. I understand how passion and emotions could blur our capacity to decide but I don't fully agree. Will elaborate that later because I have experience the same "conflict" many times . I guess W/b talks about the negative aspects of pathos
LiSe's Speaking Staff scratched my itch from 43. It's not mandatory of course to speak; sometimes silence speaks most clearly, but speaking from ones inner authority, without getting offensive or overly emotional pretty well sums it up for me. Also the timing involved is an important element, when to speak as well as how to speak. What to speak is up to you, it's your seal or staff.
I have never thought anything about reason v passion in 43...so that's new to me. Can't see where Wilhelm gets that idea from.
'Lake above heaven : Deciding.
A noble one distributes riches to those below.
She dwells in power and virtue and also shuns things'.
A lake above heaven is a cloud : sharing the blessing of rain, and always pure, never in contact with the mud. the noble one's generosity is like this: a pure, inspired expression of her character, without ulterior motive. She gives and also knows what to stay away from.
anemos
Perhaps 'speaking out" could be taken figuratively too as if you have to "announce" to your self the decision, make a declaration in some fashion and assume responsibility; be assertive, perhaps. Maybe this is what holds us back from saying the final yes or no or whatever...
A noble one distributes riches to those below.
Some part of you makes that decision based on whatever is most important to you.
If a man were to pile up riches for himself alone, without considering others, he would certainly experience a collapse. For all gathering is followed by dispersion.
I think the impetus within 43 is the need to say something, to express something important to us. Receiving 43 is like the green light to go ahead and speak, but also reminds us of the importance to keep it objective and not to start an argument, even unintentionally.
Wow that's quite a selection of readings :bows:
Also, those three - naming things, signing petitions, sending emails - are all one or another version of being the messenger, holding up the speaking staff, giving voice to the inner qian, etc.I've also gotten 43uc just telling me to be decisive: what to name something, whether to sign a petition ON THE INTERNET , is my draft email suitable for sending. I think Trojina's point pertains here - if there had actually been something wrong with the actions, Yi could have said so, but it didn't. It also didn't tell me that what I was considering was fine and dandy, but maybe that was implied? Yi thought the most important message it could give me was just to decide, so therefore my worried dithering was NOT important?
Hooray. I get very upset when people cut down trees. If I'd had this reading, I think I'd have taken it to mean, 'Go and tell them not to' or 'Go tie yourself to the tree with a banner' or something. And would have been wrong, I suppose, since they weren't going to cut it down anyway.I also got it once to indicate a decision which had already been made. A tree which grew about three feet from the side of our building had been removed, and I asked whether they'd also cut down a similar tree which has grown past my own balcony. (I like it, and didn't want it removed.) Yi gave me 43uc, and it was never cut down. I think the reading meant they'd already decided which trees had to go, and "mine" was not on the list.
Also, those three - naming things, signing petitions, sending emails - are all one or another version of being the messenger, holding up the speaking staff, giving voice to the inner qian, etc.
Hooray. I get very upset when people cut down trees. If I'd had this reading, I think I'd have taken it to mean, 'Go and tell them not to' or 'Go tie yourself to the tree with a banner' or something. And would have been wrong, I suppose, since they weren't going to cut it down anyway.
The moral of this unflattering and exhausting story is probably that if I'd given it better thought, I might have asked only two questions, the first 43uc one and the last one. At the end I knew what the 43uc meant, and I can even see how the Image fits - distinguishing amongst trees. But it still seems to highlight the problem I have with the majority of unchanging readings - I know it's saying one of several different possible things about the hexagram, but I don't know which. I almost always have to do more than one reading because of this.
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Is that one of the things we're trying to find a way to understand and deal with in these threads? Or is it just a fact of unchanging-reading life?
*Mirror images! Which I noticed just this minute
Has anyone ever gotten 43uc to refer to an object literally breaking? I have a hex 43 reading which I think might mean that, but it's not unchanging.
Never a bad suggestion. It's the only way anyone is ever confident about what a reading's saying, after all.Slightly off topic for a moment.....might I humbly suggest that what might help most at such times is trust in your own intuition..?
12.5 to 35; 35.5 to 12. Subject for another thread: what does it mean when you get the reading going in one direction along the path, and then the one going back? It'd be interesting to collect a few examples of that and see if we can discern any pattern.Not sure what you saw as mirror images ? Did you mean the readings were all mirrors ?
12.5 to 35; 35.5 to 12. Subject for another thread: what does it mean when you get the reading going in one direction along the path, and then the one going back? It'd be interesting to collect a few examples of that and see if we can discern any pattern.
Yes, I think doing that would have gotten me from the first question to the last one, skipping all the angst in-between. I do still think those two questions would have been necessary, though. It wasn't so cut-and-dried that I would have wanted to assume that's what 43uc meant without asking about it.Slightly off topic for a moment.....might I humbly suggest that what might help most at such times is trust in your own intuition..?
I now feel an unchanging cast takes the situation beyond us in some way...like we are outside of it or it presents a simple fact. Though I would hesitate to say that is a general thing.
Have read through that more than once - it's a really helpful thread .There was this thread anyway on all the ways people think of uc casts......http://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/frie...periences-With-Unchanging-Castings-Hexagram-0
I like 12.5 as reassurance about trees, by the way.
Well we can now carry the boiled sweet of '43uc and the tree' around with us ....(.and I'm still sucking on 37uc and the lost keys)
The lake has risen up to heaven:
The image of BREAK–THROUGH.
Thus the superior man
Dispenses riches downward
And refrains from resting on his virtue.
23
The mountain rests on the earth:
The image of SPLITTING APART.
Thus those above can ensure their position
Only by giving generously to those below.
and something from inside comes out
Anemos, I'm probably missing something obvious, but I'm not seeing where that part comes from
I still can't see why 43 and 44 are a pair. What I mean is mostly it's obvious with pairs that one is the flip side of the other....they go together, they are inseparable. You can't think of one without the other being implicit.
In some pairs it's obvious like 41 and 42, 39 and 40 and so on. In other pairs it's much less clear and it's not so clear how 43 is flip to 44 at all to me.
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