Hexagram 45 Assembling

Hexagram 45 - Assembling

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8/28/00 Unchanging - There is an implication that your goals, your potential for growth, and even your happiness are tied in some way to group consciousness. In this position it is wise to join fully in the group's rituals and endeavors. For greatest success, locate and serve the leader, thereby strengthening the group and assuring your security.

Top Line

62 3/6/02 Fifth Line: When people rally around you, expecting you to provide leadership, not to act brings misfortune. Indeed, few situations provide a better opportunity for combining personal advancement with contributions to the general welfare of others - than the moment when others look to you for guidance and direction. The only way to really gain the confidence of such people is to intensify your own commitment to competence, and high performance standards. In this way you will be renouncing the role of petty influence in your own career - and thereby make greater progress in the long run.

3 4/7/05
Fourth Line - Take the time to re-evaluate your ties with others and with groups. If any are no longer useful, now is a good time to disengage. (8)

62 3/6/02 Third Line: If unity with a certain group is desirable, but you remain an outsider, the first step is to align yourself with the leader of the group. Even if this at first feels awkward or humiliating, take the initiative! Consider the development of a relationship with the leader a strategic necessity, and take direct action to achieve it.

Second Line - If you feel magnetically drawn to ideas, people or groups at this time, follow your intuition. Opportunities are forming, even though you can't see yet. (47)

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4/7/05
4/9/05
Bottom line - you aren't responding to the wavelength of a group you belong to, and are therefore out of step with its growth and progress. Reform (17)

The major key to understanding and acting harmoniously with this time lies in the contemplation of the center. In every gathering there is a leader and /or common goal.

The power of gathering together is represented by a rally, where each individual's strength is magnified by the power of the community as a whole. History has shown that mass movements can bring about stable, ordered and durable conditions for the better. This reading may be pointing to an auspicious time for large undertakings. But the guiding force of a shared vision is essential to hold the forces of unity together, and keep them advancing toward a common goal.
Another image for this situation is that of a lake filling with water. Just as the fullness of the lake can bring good fortune to all in its sphere, it can also overflow, leading to calamity. Thus in a time of gathering together it is essential that precautions against unforeseen danger be considered along with efforts to advance along a clearly-charted course. Much of human misfortune comes from unexpected events for which we are ill prepared; when gathered together with others, we are both more powerful and, in some ways, more vulnerable.
Any time of unity is a time of potential greatness. But that greatness can be both positive and negative. Everything is magnified when masses of people unite for a single purpose. When many people unite behind a single goal or strong vision, it is wise to take personal precautions, and to protect your own reasonable self-interests, because these can easily be lost in the crowd.

Tuesday April 7, 1998 - Received as outcome

Monday, August 28, 2000

Question: would Seattle be a good place for me to resume my creative writing?

How interesting an answer that in some ways ties back to 37 community. It would appear that if we went there we would be constrained by something with little choice about following along. This has been an interesting series of readings that bespeaks a future that might never come to pass.

Retrospective: Urgh... I can't believe that I didn't take this i-ching very literally. Seattle did turn out to be a great place to write but when I finally got off my posterior and located a writing organization, my life started to turn around. I now have very close friends (all of them met in one way or another through my efforts to support the organization). What's interesting about this was the question was asked before I had a job or even a glimmer of a job working up in the northwest.

Wednesday, March 6, 2002

Question: outlook for future profitable business for me now that Pittsburgh is interested.

moving to 62

Seems silly to be asking for assurances before I undertake the work. These readings are full of "tell me it will pay off before I do it" questions. And what is the alternative I'm saving myself for?

My reading of this says to me that I will have little impact on anything that happens here. That I am along for the ride.

Wednesday, April 7, 2004

Question: approach to take with CH

Moving to	Date
	8/28/00	Unchanging - There is an implication that your goals, your potential for growth, and even your happiness are tied in some way to group consciousness. In this position it is wise to join fully in the group's rituals and endeavors. For greatest success, locate and serve the leader, thereby strengthening the group and assuring your security.
		Top Line
62	3/6/02	Fifth Line: When people rally around you, expecting you to provide leadership, not to act brings misfortune. Indeed, few situations provide a better opportunity for combining personal advancement with contributions to the general welfare of others - than the moment when others look to you for guidance and direction. The only way to really gain the confidence of such people is to intensify your own commitment to competence, and high performance standards. In this way you will be renouncing the role of petty influence in your own career - and thereby make greater progress in the long run.
3	4/7/05	Fourth Line - Take the time to re-evaluate your ties with others and with groups. If any are no longer useful, now is a good time to disengage. (8)
62	3/6/02	Third Line: If unity with a certain group is desirable, but you remain an outsider, the first step is to align yourself with the leader of the group. Even if this at first feels awkward or humiliating, take the initiative! Consider the development of a relationship with the leader a strategic necessity, and take direct action to achieve it.
		Second Line - If you feel magnetically drawn to ideas, people or groups at this time, follow your intuition. Opportunities are forming, even though you can't see yet. (47)
3	4/7/05 4/9/05	Bottom line - you aren't responding to the wavelength of a group you belong to, and are therefore out of step with its growth and progress. Reform (17)