![]() ![]() The very calculations which brought me to hexagram 21 that week, had themselves been undone by hexagram 21. The answers came the next day, but only now - eight months later - do I understand their true purpose. Too late I reached out for help correcting the errors. Day 6: If one is strong but unenlightened, not knowing how to distinguish truth, one misuses intelligence and gets sidetracked, wasting a whole life, eventually going to one's destruction.Even so, things were already transforming. Open and balanced, alert and wary, one will see that there is a primary principle understanding it within and proving it without all acts conform with the tao. Unfortunately I did not discover this right away. Indeed, various instructions on the correct calculations didn't add up. Day 5: Right and wrong and false and true are clearly distinguished.We discussed how the hexagrams are calculated from the BaZi, or Four Pillars of Destiny, and how The Astrology of I Ching does not use the traditional method of performing these calculations. Got a reply from one of the sources I'd reached out to. Day 4: Actively penetrate to the root.Life as usual, waited to hear back, some more research, no conclusions. Day 3: Don't quite recall much aside from trying to be patient.Sent emails to two of the originators of this controversy asking for help and clarity. found myself searching online regarding Astrology of I Ching, and uncovered some controversy regarding the proper calculations. Read many translations of 21 and posted to an I-Ching forum. Investigating principle without penetrating it. Went about my day as usual, intent on remaining empty. And yet as though I were a clap of thunder. Last autumn I found myself facing Biting Through as my weekly hexagram. The hexagrams of my friends - I did about 20 - were interesting. Notice feeling yin and yang days differently. I would feel strong for-shadowing of the next day as the current day neared midnight. ![]() ![]() I wrote daily logs on the changes I felt and listened to the counsel of the yijing.īeing new to the I-Ching, I let myself be empty. Zhongyongdaoist has a post on this book here.įor over a year I hand calculated the natal I-Ching Hexagrams of my friends, followed the yearly-monthly-daily changes from calculations described in the book, and observed. The He Luo Li Shu first came to me in the form of Sherrill & Chu's The Astrology of I Ching. Mapping the I-Ching to people's birthdays presents a very powerful and subtle astrological framework. The I-Ching is already well suited to understanding flows of change over time. Further, one may use the I-Ching to observe change through-out the lifetime of something created during a particular moment of time. Using this guide, one might match a particular point in time frame to a Hexagram. He Luo Li Shu is a guide to using the principles of the He Tu and Luo Shu diagrams to map the ever changing energies of time to I-Ching Hexagrams. Best accept this in emptiness and start over, rather than have your efforts be deemed improper and cause punishment. Either your hard work is rewarded and you enter a new level of attainment, or you are put back in your place and with nothing to show for your efforts. When one finally reaches line 6 after all manner of complicated process, everything reverts upon itself, and none of your hard work matters to the situation any longer. Now I realize the last line IS the transformation, is the transcendence. Especially the last line seemed very confusing and out of place. I read many translations and interpretations before the essence starting coming through. But when the process is able to reach completion, everything is transformed. Like digestion, or inner alchemy - there is a complex process involved, and if one acts out of place one suffers indigestion, vomits, tips over the cauldron, spills the elixir, or worse. In such situations there is potential for timely actions to transcend, or "bite through" the situation, leaving what is unnecessary behind. When a situation is complex, there may be an entire process involved in bringing clarification to a situation. When Action is applied without Clarity, one is acting before it is clear what needs to be done. Biting Through is Hexagram 21, Thunder under Fire. ![]()
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