The week before last, I was itching to get started on something, and Yi told me to ‘strip away’ and to have no direction to go. And I realised that I could go anywhere.
Then last week, with far more ideas and possibilities in mind than I’d dreamt possible, Yi told me to contain myself and keep still. And I found I had the opportunity to go much more deeply into what comes next.
This week – finally! – I received Hexagram 46, Pushing Upward, with no changing lines. Time to get this show on the road! So based on my thoughts so far, and on some specific advice from Yi about my favourite idea, I started a thread at the I Ching Community. (Feel free to go read through it and comment – though please bear in mind that the initial idea has changed a lot and is still changing…) This would be my first step forward in the step-by-step approach that 46 suggests.
Meanwhile a wise friend, helping me out with the reading, suggested that I would be pushing upward from strong roots, but that it might not be so clear what I was moving towards. And oh, was he ever right! I find myself pushing upward into a much bigger space, with far more possibilities and much more daunting challenges than I ever expected or intended.
This ties in with something I’ve noticed before – that when you have an unchanging hexagram, the nuclear hexagram can emerge very strongly. The hidden core of Pushing Upward is being like the Marrying Maiden – moving upward and outward into a whole new world where the possibilites are much greater than ever before, but you really don’t feel ready for it all.
So here I am. If you have comments on what you really like about this website, or what you would change about it if you could, now would be a good time to post a comment!
I saw a beautiful picture of 46 yesterday, though, when we walked through the nearby wood – shining with bright spring green and great clouds of bluebells.