This podcast has a reading of my own, about creating a home. Yi answered with Hexagram 53, Gradual Progress, changing at line 5 to Hexagram 52, Stilling:
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In this one, I spend some time discussing the ‘nuclear story’ of the moving lines – how you can find four component trigrams in a hexagram, and the hexagrams they create. Here they are (because this is a lot easier to follow when you can see it):
I cast this hexagram –
and by taking groups of consecutive lines, you can find four trigrams inside it:
– lines 1-2-3, 2-3-4, 3-4-5 and 4-5-6. So extract each of those trigrams, with the moving line included…
…and combine them into hexagrams. Each hexagram’s made from two overlapping trigrams:
And there you have the three nuclear hexagrams I talk about in the episode.
This was fantastic. I love your down to earth approach when explaining aspects of the hexagrams and lines. Boy, 53.5 really is very slow, slow success. But what a great bit of reassurance one can receive with this line that nothing can prevent the subject inquiry
Yes – very welcome reassurance!
Thank you for this insightful podcast on Hexagram 53. Having read through the lines myself, I kept getting frustrated at some of the negative undertones that would suggest making progress but sometimes taking a hit or regressing perhaps when one is too eager to fast forward to the fruits (instant gratification)… kind of like taking one step forward, two steps back. It is taking me a while (ironically) to appreciate that patience is key here, or impatience as you put it in WikiWing) is often the problem. I have much to learn in letting things naturally unfold without resistance.. and avoiding impulsive behaviours that may seem right at the time, and might have some sort of effect we are looking for, but perhaps not of the mature kind that one of gradual progress and patience demands of us.
You’d think I’d get it by now, but still every single time I cast 53, something is going to take far longer than I imagined – it’s just not the kind of process I thought it was; it’s on a larger and longer scale altogether. That certainly applies to this one!