Divination
The I Ching is a book of Chinese wisdom, the accumulated experience of over 2,500 years of diviners and sages, and beyond that of unimaginably ancient oral traditions; it’s a guide to an ethical life, a manual for rulers, and an oracle of one’s personal future and the future of the state. The book of divination is based on eight symbolic trigrams and sixty-four hexagrams.
The oracles have been offering people help and wise, genial guidance for generations. It will tell you what challenges and opportunities you are likely to face if you take a particular path, and how you can negotiate the obstacles you meet. This is the opposite of 'fortune telling'. Being told what will happen, as if your own choices had nothing to do with the outcome, is deeply disempowering. The I Ching tells seekers what effects their choices will have, and helps them to develop strategies to achieve their goals.
One needs to apply wisdom received in this post to upcoming events as they unfold during the coming week.
Oracle For The WEEK OF 11.18.24
THE TRUMP REVOLUTION CHRONICLE
Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself -- Hermann Hesse
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Retreat
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The power of the dark is ascending. The light retreats to security, so that the darkness cannot encroach upon it. This retreat is not a matter of man's will but of natural law. Threfore in this case withdrawal is proper; it is the proper way to behave in order not to exhaust one's forces.
THE JUDGMENT
IRETREAT. Success.
In what is small, perseverance furhers.
Conditions are such that the hostile forces favored by the time are advancing. In this case is the right course, and it is not to be confused with flight. Flight mean saving oneself uder any circumstances, whereas retreat is a sign of strength. We must be careful not to miss th right moment while we are in full possession of power and position. Then we shall shall be able to interpret the signs of the time before it is too late and to prepare for provisional retreat instead of being drawn into a desperate life-and-death struggle. Thus we do not simply abandon the field to the opponent; we make it difficult for him to advance by showing perseverance in single act of resistance. In this way we prepare, while retreating, for the counter movement. Understanding the laws of a constructive retreat of this sort is not easy. The meaning that lies hidden in such time is important.
THE IMAGE
Mountain under heaven. The image of RETREAT.
Thus the superior man keeps the inferior man at a distance,
Not angrily but with reserve.
The mountain rises up under heaven, but owing to its nature finally comes to a stop. Heaven on the other hand retreat upward before it into the distance and remains out of reach. This symbolizes to behavior of the superior man toward a climbing inferior; he retreats into his own thoughts as the inferior man move forward. He does not hate, for hatred is a form of subjective involvement by which we are bound to the hated object. The superior man shows strength in that he brings the inferior man to a standstill by his dignified reserve.
THE LINES
Six in the scond place means:
He holds him fast with yellow oxhide.
No one can tear him loose.
Yellow is the color of the middle. It indicates that which is correct and in line with duty. Oxhide is strong and not to be torn. While the superrior men retreat and the inferior press after them, the inferior man represented here holds on so firmly and tightly to the superior man that the latter cannot shake him off. And because he is in quest of what is right and so strong in purpose, he reaches his goal. Thus the line confirms what is said in the judgment "In what is small" --here equivalent to "the inferior man" -- perseverance furthers.
Nine in the fourh place means:
Voluntary retreat brings good fortune to the superior man
And downfall to the inferior man.
In retreating the superior man is intent on taking his departure willingly and in all friendliness. He easily adjusts his mind to retreat, because in retreating he doesn't have to do violence to his convictions. The only one who suffers is the inferior man from whom he retreats, who will degenerate when deprived of the guidance of the superior man
(See below for the specific line’s significance and how to interpret it.)
SIGNIFICANCE OF SPECIFIC LINES DETERMINES
ITS STATUS AND FUNCTION IN A HEXAGRAM
LINE 2
Lines one and two are of the earth’s domain.
Line 2 represents the courtier of the duke, or a domestic official, or a low ranking official
In present times, it is interpreted as the elite of civilians.
At the position for starting action: it possesses the principle of moderation. It is ready for the assigned mission, but what it can do is still limited.
LINE 4
Lines three and four are of the human domain.
Line four represents the courtier of the king, or the official of the central government, or a high-ranking official.
In present times, it can be interpreted as the official.
At a position full of fear it stays next to the king and acts as a courtier
Its mode of conduct is at a position of resting, as it just arrives at the upper trigram after a hard march.
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