Clarity i ching
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I’ve just been reviewing a lot of readings with this line, and found they very often describe a post-traumatic experience, with someone stuck in an emotional morass. The first shock is over now the wheel keeps turning, and the shock comes back to haunt us.
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And it’s not just rainstorms that create mud: earthquakes trigger mudslides, and they can also be followed – a few hours or a few days later – by the eruption of mud volcanoes, seething with noxious gases. I think it might be laying emphasis on a close, causal link between shock and the mud that follows. The conjunction in this fourth line, the ‘and then’, means ‘what follows,’ ‘thereupon’ and ‘complying with’. These lines seem different to me: more to do with the aftermath and the longer term. (The hexagram change is to 55, with the king at the centre, taking it on.) This will carry us through the immediate emergency.Īnd then we move on to the outer trigram, the second ‘Shock’.
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We fight off lions, or remember CPR – we can draw on whatever reserves we have. (Changing to 54, because we are really not in the driving seat.)Īdrenaline flows, we come alive, and are suddenly more clear-eyed (the inner trigram is changing to li) and sure-footed. We need to get out of the village and climb to higher ground, and not dawdle to look for our lost property. The danger of collapsing buildings, next, and physical losses. (This line changes to 16, which is very good at making a noise and galvanising people.) That’s what gets us moving, yelling to our neighbours, rousing the village, doing something about it. There are words of marital alliance.’ Hexagram 51, lines 1-6 Intention is not lost – there are things to do.’ Then afterwards, laughing words, shrieking and yelling. Think of earthquakes for a moment, and travel through the lines of Hexagram 51: And I think Hexagram 51’s lines are telling the story of how we undergo and respond to Shock. Firstly because it ‘spreads fear for 100 li‘, about 30 miles – which could just be a round number used with poetic licence, but could also mean this is an earthquake, not a thunderstorm – and secondly because it’s hard for us nowadays to imagine a thunderstorm as something that would really shake us. The name of the hexagram, Shock, means both a thunderclap and an earthquake, and there are a couple of good reasons for thinking of it as an earthquake. Well… I’m wondering whether something similar might not be happening in Hexagram 51. You know how the lines of some hexagrams unfold and tell a story? Hexagram 53 traces the journey of the wild geese 1 follows the dragon’s journey across the skies 48 describes well-repair.