Hexagram 52 - Meditation (keeping still)
Moving to Date Unchanging - 15 3/5/97 Top Line
When your inner composure can reach even beyond the situation in all aspects of
your life, you can penetrate the true meaning of things. From this perspective come great good fortune.Fifth Line Fourth Line Third Line Second Line Bottom line Wednesday, March 05, 1997
M. came by yesterday to ask me if I’d consider taking a consulting job with F. This is what I was working towards and I told him I’d be very interested. I haven’t heard anything from O. but I talked to BJ yesterday and she said she’d been told they were planning to make a decision the end of the month. I did the I-ching on F. and got #52 moving to #15 (meditation moving to modesty)
"MEDITATION, in general, can renew both mind and body. By pacifying stress that is based upon projection and fantasy, true relaxation can be attained. The instincts that spring forth in accordance with your real needs. Stop your
thoughts now.He who knows does not speak
He who speaks does not know
Close the mouth,
Shut the door of desire,
Blunt the sharpness,
Untie the tangles
Soften the light
Become one with the dusty world
The moving line was 6 - the ruling line
Note: The outcome of this was that I took the job for a mere 7 weeks then left to go to work for O.
The I-ching seems to have answered a broader question than the one I asked. There is something to think about but it isn’t the yes or no of O. or F.. What keeps coming to me is what is the fabric of my life?. Maybe this is the lesson of Hubris, of believing I actually have a choice and can actually affect the outcome. Not my will but thine. The more closely aligned with universal will that we are the less illusion there is of personal choice.Monday January 1, 2006
Outlook for 2007
this hexagram deals with discernment - the selection of 'value' through blocking some influences in favor of others.