I want to start learning the I Ching as well (even though I’m falling behind in learning all the tarot cards). Oh well, both systems are so big that I will just have to pick them off piece by piece as I have spare time to do so.
Anyway I just did this reading on Facade and pulled hexagram 45, which they describe like this:
The king will repair to his ancestral temple. It will be advantageous to meet with the great man. Then there will be progress and success, though the advantage must come through firm correctness. The use of great victims will be conducive to good fortune, and in whatever direction movement is made, it will be advantageous.
I’m not sure what all that stuff about victims necessarily means, but the stuff about repairing to my “ancestral temple” makes a lot of sense, since next week I go away to a family reunion on the East Coast. Then I’m gonna also go to Baltimore and meet up with some old friends I haven’t seen in ages as well. I guess I will have to figure out what this “great victims” thing means though…
Another website has an alternate translation:
‘Gathering, creating success.
The king enters his temple.
Harvest in seeing great people.
Creating success, harvest in constancy.
Making use of great sacrificial animals, good fortune.
Harvest in having a direction to go.’
I guess their use of “sacrificial animals” probably replaces the “victim” thing and makes more sense - offering a sacrifice in recognition of the bountiful harvest you receive…
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