Oracle for the Week of 4.29.24
The difference between a good life and a bad life is how well you walk through the fire. -- Carl Jung
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THE CLINGING, FIRE
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In a pit there is certain to be something clinging within. Hence there follows the hexagram of THE CLINGING. The Clinging means clinging on something.
THE JUDGMENT
THE CLINGING. Perseverance follows.
It brings success.
Care of the cow brings good fortune.
What is dark clings to what is light and so enhances the brightness of the latter. A luminous thing giving our light must have within itself something that perseveres; otherwise in time it will burn itself out. Everything that gives light is dependent on something to which it clings, in order that it may continue to shine.
Thus sun and moon cling to heaven, and grain, grass and trees cling to the earth. So too the twofold clarity of the dedicated man clings to what is right and thereby can shape the world. Human life on earth is conditioned and unfree, and when man realizes this limitation and makes himself dependent on the harmonious beneficent forces of the cosmos, he achieves success. The cow is the symbol of extreme docility. By cultivating in himself an attitude of compliance and voluntary dependence, man acquires clarity without sharpness and finds his place in the world.
THE IMAGE
That which is bright rises twice:
The image of FIRE.
Thus the great man, by perpetuating this brightness,
Illumines the four quarters of the world.
Each of the hexagram represents the sun in the course of a day. The two together represent the repeated movement of the sun, the function of light with respect to time. The great man continues the work of nature in the human world. Through the clarity of his nature he causes the light to spread further and further and to penetrate the nature of man ever more deeply.
THE LINES
O — Six in the fifth place means:
Tears in floods, sighing and lamenting.
Good fortune.
Here the zenith in life has been achieved. Were there no warning, one would at this point consume oneself like a flame. Instead understanding the vanity of all things, one may put aside both hope and fear, and sigh and lament: if one is intent on retaining his clarity of mind, good fortune will come from this grief. For here we are dealing not with a passing mood, but with a real change of heart.
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The governing rulers of the hexagram are always of good character and become rulers by virtue of the position and of the meaning of the time. Usually, they are in the fifth place.
SIGNIFICANCE OF SPECIFIC LINES DETERMINES
ITS STATUS AND FUNCTION IN A HEXAGRAM
LINE 5
Lines five and six are of the heavenly domain.
Line five represents the king
In present times, it can be interpreted as the president
It is at the core of a hexagram and possesses the principle of moderation; or at the peak of a hexagram where the line reaches its full development.