Ima li budućnosti
Your reading resulted in the following hexagrams:
Hexagram 63.1.3 to 8
Hexagram 63, Already Across
Key Questions
What is decided?
What now?
Oracle
'Already across, creating small success.
Constancy bears fruit.
Beginnings, good fortune – endings, chaos.'
You have committed yourself and made a transition. Even if the change so far is internal, a resolve formed or
decision made, there is a sense in which everything is in place. Now you create success in small ways and in
small things: you attend to details, working with what you've already decided or achieved. In following
through, you stay loyal to your original reasons for making the crossing.
The Zhou forded the river and overthrew the Shang dynasty. As they established their rule, they had in mind
how the Shang once received the Mandate of Heaven to replace a corrupt dynasty. Now the Shang had
forfeited the Mandate and were ending in chaos, while the Zhou enjoyed fortunate beginnings. Might the story
repeat itself? It's easier to create new, clear-cut patterns for living than to live by them.
It's not that what you have begun here must inevitably fall apart. Only if you feel as if you've 'arrived' already
and let yourself come to a halt, then you lose your path and then it all falls apart. Work with what you've
accomplished so far, and keep your momentum: keep on beginning.
Image
'Stream dwells above fire: Already Across.
A noble one reflects on distress and prepares to defend against it.'
Sequence
Already Across follows from Hexagram 62, Small Exceeding:
'Going past others naturally means crossing the river, and so Already Across follows.'
Pair
Already Across is paired and contrasted with Hexagram 64, Not Yet Across
'Already Across: calm and settled.'
'Not Yet Across: exhaustion of the male.'
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Changing Lines
Line 1
'Your wheels dragged back, your tail soaked – no mistake.'
Line 3
'The high ancestor attacks the Demon Country.
Three years go round, and he overcomes it.
Don't use small people.'
Hexagram 8, Seeking Union
Key Questions
Where do you belong?
Is this a good fit?
Do you choose to join?
Oracle
'Seeking union, good fortune.
At the origin of oracle consultation,
From the source, ever-flowing constancy.
No mistake.
Not at rest, coming on all sides.
For the latecomer, pitfall.'
To seek union is to search for connection and belonging, discovering how it all fits together and creating a
new world out of relationships.
It begins where divination begins: at your very source. Ask yourself why it was important to ask this question;
get to know where you're coming from. When you find the source, you can flow perpetually out from there
towards the right choices and connections. Such self- examination is not a mistake; it's the best way to avoid
mistakes. It gives you and your relationships the authenticity of water, which flows together on the earth
without changing its nature.
Seeking Union is natural, but not without stress. Singleness of purpose attracts restlessness (from within and
without); demands are made on you from all directions at once. Not all the people or all the feelings that
appear will be helpful. Yu the Great conquered the Chinese floods through a lifetime of hard toil. When his
work was complete and the land was safe, he summoned the lords and spirits to a meeting to found the new
world. One of them, Fang Feng, came late; Yu had him executed. To re-create a world of relationships, like
Yu, is good fortune. To hesitate and come late, like Fang, is not. The decisive leader has to eliminate the
non-committal spirit, the one who procrastinates and isn't quite sure whether to believe in this new union.
Image
'Above earth is the stream: Seeking Union.
The ancient kings founded countless cities for relationship with all the feudal lords.'
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Sequence
Seeking Union follows from Hexagram 7, the Army:
'Crowds naturally have occasion to Seek Union.'
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