I Ching - Hexagrams

Tony Crisp

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Hexagram Twenty Six

Ta Ch’u (Pro: Da Choo) - Revitalising Restraint

Richness of possibilities confronts you. As the sun rises warmth pours out if there is a clear sky. There are no clouds now and there can be replenishment. Open to this inflow of warming enrichment.

The enrichment comes from great personal discipline, or perhaps the discipline of circumstance. The discipline has enabled both a receptivity of mind as well as the ability to tune the receptivity to the enormous potential of the hidden aspect of the human spirit. Wisdom and healing arise.

This has led to a great degree of self containment or self reliance, or what some may judge as restraint. It expresses as the ability to remain steadfast and in contact with ones own inner power despite the adversities and changes of life. Like a mountain with gold in its depths, you exist unmoving within change, with treasure within.

The treasures of the spirit and culture discovered enable the possibility of successfully undertaking difficult projects or tasks. Take the opportunity to extend into the world. This opens the possibility of good fortune and allows a meeting with the new.

Be nourished by what has been found, and nourishing with friends. Spend time with them in relaxed surrounding. Share some of your inner and worldly wealth. The mountain, however self sustained, needs to allow trees, animals and people to live on its slopes.

Key words: Being still like the mountain allows self renewal. But streams can flow into the world and bring changes from the heart of the crags.

The Moving Lines.

1.Stop now! Although there is great energy to do so, misfortune follows an attempt to advance. Wait.

2.Circumstances beyond your control call a halt to any progress. Recognise the situation and wait until there is a change which favours further advance. This conserves power.

3.Advance is now favoured and possible. Be aware of what forces are in opposition, and through awareness avoid them. Practice the skills necessary to deal with such problems, and keep the goal in mind.

4.Recognise future problems and deal with them now. This is like preventing the growth of a young bulls horns. Better now than later. Then advance is easy and success assured.

5.To have a gelded boars tusk is to have power over something that could have attacked you. The power comes from understanding the beast. This leads to unexpected good fortune.

6.Being in accord with the scheme of things removes all obstacles. Great is your advance and support given.

Hexagram Twenty Seven

I (Pro: Yee) - Hunger Satisfied

Each relate to their needs in different ways. Some push violently from their hunger and some seek with care. Be aware of what is hungered for, and in what way hungers are satisfied. What needs drive one into what relationships? This knowledge brings wisdom.

By observing how needs are satisfied, and who satisfies them, one becomes skilled in the ways of the world. Through this discover those who help to sustain you, and those who would feed off you without giving in return.

This hexagram shows there is a hunger of the mind or the body which needs satisfaction. Care must be taken to satisfy this need, otherwise other parts of ones nature will be harmed.

It is also about providing nourishment to others. Even if what we give to nourish others is emotional or in the form of ideas, nevertheless it should be prepared and presented as a good cook presents a meal.

Therefore take notice of how you nourish yourself and upon what you partake. Health of the body mind and spirit depend upon this nourishment. Notice how your body or mind reacts to what is taken, and the long term results.

Where one lives, in what relationship, the work one does are also forms of nourishment. If they do not bring pleasure and health, consider why.

Key words: Not only the body hungers and thirsts. Great tension arises from hidden hungers of the emotions and spirit.

The Moving Lines.

1.Why hunger for what others posses when your own plate is full and rich? This way lies unhappiness and misfortune.

2.Unadmitted anxiety or a hidden sense of dependence prevent one working and attaining independence. Self doubts and hidden angers then haunt one.

3.Avoidance of normal appetites leads only to aberrations. Looking for nourishment in dead things brings years of lost and empty life.

4.With tigerish zeal others are sought to share the nourishment. Finding real all-round sustenance and connection with life produces fearlessness and strength. Great light!

5.To sustain others we must first deal with our won needs. There is disturbance by unusual needs and events. Best not to attempt difficult projects. Good fortune can come by accepting help from a simple sage.

6.To have found wholeness is the greatest blessing. It shows wisdom beyond the normal. Such wisdom is a great responsibility, for many need it. Knowing this enables great undertakings to be dealt with successfully. Happiness!

Hexagram Twenty Eight

Ta Kuo (Pro: Dah Gwor; with the final ‘r’ not pronounced) - Excess

When the seed pod is full the pod must burst open. Too much experience leads one to seek quietness.

At full term the baby must be born otherwise it will stifle, the overflowing lake drained. Fullness must lead to change. With awareness note the fullness and be ready to shift your ground as the change comes. Seek to understand the situation so that negative aspects can be avoided.

Too many things are happening at once, producing stress to a degree not usually dealt with. Dealing with one thing at a time will not work in this instance. The inevitable result is that something must suddenly change, like a roof beam breaking under great weight.

Be watchful for the moment of change and move accordingly. Meanwhile do not move too soon. It is a simply rule of life that things move to an extreme and then swing back, like a pendulum. This is such a situation.

Nevertheless the situation has enormous potential. Just as the baby must move out of the womb because its potential for growth is much beyond the environment it was conceived in, so the situation calls for emergence. Without this there is danger of the potential collapsing. The action must be quick and from understanding. Like a flood, its power must be directed to avoid danger. Do not be swept away by too much emotional involvement in the situation.

Key words: Recognise the potential power and the evident weakness of the situation, and do what need to be done.

The Moving Lines.

1.If this is going to be done, then it must as well be done with as much skill and carefulness as possible. Be alert.

2.From what seemed old and without much future growth, new possibilities emerge, like green shoots out of an dead tree trunk. Whether it is love, business or ones spirit that is renewing itself, take heart and support the growth.

3.What depend on for a roof over your head, whether work, relationship, or welfare, is dangerously near failure. This because one has pressed ahead without awareness of dangers. Disaster is near unless you can transform the situation.

4.A looming misfortune is avoided by timely co-operation with ones who serve. If one avoids turning this to personal advantage, good fortune.

5.A marriage between the old and young in a business or a relationship, does not have the destined longevity of a union between the young.

6.You may be plunging in over you head here. If you are sure you can swim well and good, but take care. Misfortune through self sacrifice is noble if you want it.

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