Hexagram 64 before completion

Hexagram #64 Before Completion

Moving to Date

4/7/98
Unchanging - In it's static form, it could suggest that you are not prepared to see clearly what must be done and take the final step toward your goal. Do not become suspended in a meaningless mid-breath.

40 - Deliverance
7- the army 2/2/99
2/2200 Top Line
There is a refreshing new sense of well-being which comes from an end to conflicts - either with others or within yourself. Celebrate and enjoy yourself, but don't overdo it lest your vision and confidence be lost. While a glass of wine can evoke the pleasant glow of success; an entire bottle puts out the light.

Fifth Line

7- the army

2/22/00
Fourth Line -Inevitably, as chaos gives way to a new order (as troubles dissolve themselves in the clarity of a fresh solution), struggles develop. This changing line refers to a situation where the disciples of decadence have mounted an attack against you. You must either advance strongly and firmly, or face humiliation and defeat. Take heart, and enter the fray. All of your skills, talents and influence will be needed; and in that in itself, there is great benefit.

Third Line

21- Decisiveness
35 - Progress 4/28/98
1/20/99 Second Line
The time is not yet ripe for direct action. Patience is advised, but don't let the period of waiting degenerate into mere idleness. This is the patience of an engine revving in neutral. Be ready and waiting, but do not move prematurely before you get a green light.

Bottom line
In periods of chaos, there is a strong tendency to become overanxious, to throw caution to the wind and rush on to the end. Like the young fox which dashes ahead too quickly as it nears its goal, one can be treading on thin ice if an attempt is made to escape problems too quickly.

The situation is incomplete, but the chaos of the past is slowly giving way to order, and the goal is in sight. Nevertheless, you are still treading on thin ice - the way ahead is unobstructed, the goal is clear, but a cautious and careful attitude is still essential, lest you slip and fall.
Nearing Completion is the last hexagram of the I Ching. It suggests that the ever-spinning wheel of life never reaches an absolute conclusion. Just as a hidden sadness resides in the heart of true euphoria, just as the seeds of great achievement often sprout first in a caldron of adversity, so too no end is ever really complete without a new beginning stirring inside it. Though we divide life into categories in order to understand and master it, experience itself is seamless. With this reading, the 64-spoked, the timeless wheel of change is ready to spin onward, ever evolving, ever staying the same.
The situation represented by this reading can be compared to that of taking a lengthy trek over a high mountain. At some point before reaching the peak, you can see in detail exactly how much farther you must travel. You will have a good idea what it will take to reach the top, because of the climbing experience you've accumulated thus far. However, when you do reach the peak, which has been in sight for quite a long period of sustained effort, you will have done only that. You will have reached the top - achieving your initial goal - but now you must still descend the other side. This last critical segment is what remains before completion.
You may have little information and no experience of what it's like descending the other side of the mountain. All your attention may have been focused on the route up. The coming situation may seem very strange to you, unlike anything that you have experienced before. For the back side of the mountain is where all of the true mysteries reside. Proceed carefully, cautiously, alertly - and you will reach your goal.

Tuesday April 7, 1998.
Question: After asking a number of iterative questions about selling a stock I got 64 in static form.

This is actually an interesting answer because again it points out shades of meaning. I obtained the stock in question somewhat as a reward for enduring a truly painful experience at a company. Part of me believes that the reward (i.e. the value of the stock) should be very high in recompense for the pain and agony. What this hexagram points out is that I'm trapped in that logic and I'm not looking at things objectively. I need to release the past and treat the stock simply as shares of stock and not as a symbol of something else.

Tuesday April 28, 1998
Question: The underlying issue I'm exploring here if what to do with an untenable situation.

The specifics of the question had to do with whether or not I could last beyond Sept. This seems to be a natural date given the actual circumstances and I asked if I should make plans toward that date

"The situation is incomplete, but the chaos of the past is slowly giving way to order, and the goal is in sight. Nevertheless, you are still treading on thin ice - the way ahead is unobstructed, the goal is clear, but a cautious and careful attitude is still essential, lest you slip and fall."

The trick with this is understanding what it really is saying and that is one of the reasons to do a number of readings around a single question. Here the answer to what happens if I stay past a "potentially" clearly definable end date (i.e. I officially have an out clause at the end of 6 months) is that Sept 1 might be unrealistic, things might have improved somewhat but the changing line moving to hexagram 21 Reform tells me:

"A situation has developed that is at cross purposes to your life is interfering with your aims. There is neither the possibility of compromise nor hope that the problem will miraculously vanish. It cannot be rationalized or ignored and you cannot maneuver around it. It is a tangible, real, and self-generating interference in your life, and must be severely reformed before it causes permanent damage to you."

P.S. I never commented here that the situation was exactly what the changing line portended. I was told my services were no longer required the first of June and that I could return to my old group.

January 20, 1999
Question: My annual hexagram for 1999

64 moving to 35 - Progress

Tuesday February 2,1999 (I asked this question a week or so before things popped and I got a wonderful assignment)

Question: can I make working at Big software company work for me?

64 Moving to 40 Deliverance

I've probably done about 20 hexagrams this evening all trying to get some guidance about how I can move forward. I can't be sure what will really happen but the impression I'm left with tonight is that I need to stay and make things at O work. A scary thought just flashed through my head. One other time in my life I was in a very difficult situation and no matter what I did I wasn't able to remove myself from it. Every avenue of escape seemed to offer a continuation of what I was living with but with different faces and different names. In many ways that's how I've been feeling for the last year. Thinking back on it the only way I found out of the situation was to attempt to accept it and live with it no matter how bad it was.

I really don't intend to turn these readings into an extremely personal diary since what I'm aiming for is to capture the essence of a universal decision making process. The issue though still begs the metaphysical question about fate and wyrd and the journey of the soul.

Tuesday February 22, 2000
Question: Should I take the day off to work and catch up on things that need to be done in my life.

64 moving to 7 (organized discipline or the army)

This sounds like a mundane question to be asking the I-ching but I meant much more than the surface meaning. I'm actively concerned that now that I'm back in the Valley work is once again consuming my life and that I'm spinning out of control.

Moving to	Date
	4/7/98	Unchanging - In it's static form, it could suggest that you are not prepared to see clearly what must be done and take the final step toward your goal. Do not become suspended in a meaningless mid-breath.
40 - Deliverance 7- the army	2/2/99 2/2200	Top Line There is a refreshing new sense of well-being which comes from an end to conflicts - either with others or within yourself. Celebrate and enjoy yourself, but don't overdo it lest your vision and confidence be lost. While a glass of wine can evoke the pleasant glow of success; an entire bottle puts out the light.
		Fifth Line
7- the army	2/22/00	Fourth Line -Inevitably, as chaos gives way to a new order (as troubles dissolve themselves in the clarity of a fresh solution), struggles develop. This changing line refers to a situation where the disciples of decadence have mounted an attack against you. You must either advance strongly and firmly, or face humiliation and defeat. Take heart, and enter the fray. All of your skills, talents and influence will be needed; and in that in itself, there is great benefit.
		Third Line
21- Decisiveness 35 - Progress	4/28/98 1/20/99	Second Line The time is not yet ripe for direct action. Patience is advised, but don't let the period of waiting degenerate into mere idleness. This is the patience of an engine revving in neutral. Be ready and waiting, but do not move prematurely before you get a green light.
		Bottom line In periods of chaos, there is a strong tendency to become overanxious, to throw caution to the wind and rush on to the end. Like the young fox which dashes ahead too quickly as it nears its goal, one can be treading on thin ice if an attempt is made to escape problems too quickly.