Luhrenloup's Cave

Divination

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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 2.17.25

It is character that gets us out of bed, commitment that moves us into action, and discipline that enables us to follow through. --Zig Ziglar

SUI

FOLLOWING

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Movement has begun. An older man defers to a young girl and shows her consideration. By this he moves her to follow him.

THE JUDGMENT

FOLLOWING. Supreme success.

Perseverance furthers. No blame.

In order to obtain a following one must learn how to adapt oneself. If a man would rule he must first learn to serve, for only in this way does he secure from those below him the joyous assent that is necessary if they are to follow him. If he has to obtain a following by force or cunning, by conspiracy or creating faction, he invariably arouses suspicion, which obstructs willing adherence. But even joyous adherence can lead to evil consequences, hence the added stipulation,"Perseverance furthers" --that is, consistency in doing right-- together with "No blame." Just as we should not ask others to follow us unless this condition is fulfilled, so it is only under this condition that we can in turn follow others without coming to harm. The thought of obtaining a following through adaptation to the demands of the time is a great and significant idea; this is why the appended judgment is so favorable.

THE IMAGE

FOLLOWING. Supreme success.

Perseverance furthers. No blame.

In order to obtain a following one must learn how to adapt oneself. If a man would rule he must first learn to serve, for only in this way does he secure from those below him the joyous assent that is necessary if they are to follow him. If he has to obtain a following by force or cunning, by conspiracy or creating faction, he invariably arouses suspicion, which obstructs willing adherence. But even joyous adherence can lead to evil consequences, hence the added stipulation,"Perseverance furthers" --that is, consistency in doing right-- together with "No blame." Just as we should not ask others to follow us unless this condition is fulfilled, so it is only under this condition that we can in turn follow others without coming to harm. The thought of obtaining a following through adaptation to the demands of the time is a great and significant idea; this is why the appended judgment is so favorable.

THE LINES

Six in the second place means:

If one clings to the little boy,

One loses the strong man.

In friendships and close relationships an individual must make a careful choice. He surrounds himself with good or with bad company; he cannot have both at once. If he throws himself away on unworthy friends he loses connection with people of intellectual power who could further him in the good.

(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.