This is from Havi at Fluent Self, who once again is writing about Yi without knowing it.
This time she’s unwittingly explaining Hexagram 11, line 1, as a matter of fractal flowers.
Hexagram 11 is about Flow, working with it or creating it or stepping into it. There is no issue here with lack of creative ideas or lack of energy and capacity to create (we have a trigram full of each). All that’s needed for the small to go and the great to come, to create growth and make all things possible, is communication – not least inner communication.
Line 1 connects with Hexagram 46, Pushing Upward. (Another way of saying this: you enter into Flow through Pushing Upward; you begin to experience Flow through Pushing Upward.) 46 seems to me to be a fundamentally simple hexagram of aspiration and optimism: there is something higher, so we want to climb up to it; if we point ourselves in the right direction and put one foot in front of the other for long enough, we’ll get there.
So 11.1 says:
‘Pulling up thatch grass, roots entangled,
With more of its kind.
Setting out to bring order, good fortune.’
I like this line. I’ve received it when feeling stranded, stuck, lost… or when, as Havi says, my to-do list is seventeen million miles long. (She must have snuck in and measured it.) This line tells me that whatever small thing I start tugging at, it’ll turn out to be connected to the other things. Any positive move at all will create momentum.
(It’s also an encouraging line to get when handling a bunch of deep-rooted ‘issues’. Yes, they are all tangled up in one another just under the surface; no, that does not mean you are hopelessly stuck. It means that you can start pulling, with determination, wherever you stand, and this will still lead to good fortune.)
Havi’s post is about how you can participate in flow (11) by travelling exactly one step at a time (46) because everything is connected underground. (Yes, she actually says ‘underground’.) Here it is:
http://www.fluentself.com/blog/stuckification/fractal-flowers/