I ching hexagram 12 meaning3/17/2024 Setting Intentions: All fundamental assumptions need radical review. Support your family members by redirecting resources and stripping away unnecessary expenses. The current situation cannot be sustained. Stewardship: This is a crucial situation in which resources must be re-allocated from top to bottom. The Situation: A time of breakdown in which resources must be spread evenly throughout the existing structure if it is to survive. It is an Approach to centers of power in the stage of the Symbolic Life that centers on initiation, finding a relation to culture and the search for an image of the deeper self. It is part of a Zone of Radical Transformation when we pass through the Tiger’s Mouth to connect with the Realizing Power of Earth. This is an Inspiring Figure, a Heart Theme of Change. Any cause for sorrow will soon disappear. Use your imagination and don’t fall into self-pity. Summer (27): Ripen the fruits by clearing the channels of communication. Spring (24): Rouse new growth through returning to your flow. Don’t just switch the way you present things. Let new results show you what to do next. The character shows the knife used to carve the oracle bones that record the words of the departed spirit once it is enshrined as an ancestor.įall (23): Harvest the crop by changing the way you think and your approach. The palace women in this figure are attendants on the Queen Mother of the West, the Queen of the Dead. The liberated spirit-soul would then re-enter the human community and act as a guide and benefactor to the community of the living. After the exposure or burial, the bones were gathered or disinterred, rubbed with red ocher and put into a vase or urn that served as the spirit-home. During this liminal period the soul must be fed and guided in the underworld, a job for the Wu or Spirit-Intermediaries who would talk to the ghost of the newly deceased, persuading it to return to the tomb rather than exorcising it as a bad influence. Literally, stripping represents the first burial or exposure of the corpse to animals and elements, when the flesh is rotted or stripped away. There is deprivation and loss of direction involved in this, imaged as a period of time spent in the grave or the ritual of death and re-birth in the Mourning Hut. It represents stripping off rotting skin and flesh, slicing into the body to reveal the bones, uncovering the meats offered in sacrifice, eliminating the outmoded and decadent in preparation for the return of the new. Do not focus on augmenting your involvements (42). This is a time when you must endure in what is right (32). Inner devotion now opens the patterns that mark real ends and beginnings. The old structure is dissolving so that new energy can emerge. Concentrate on the symbolic value of things. Give generously to what is below you to stabilize your position. Re-establish creative balance by stripping away outmoded embellishments. This is the end of an old cycle and the preparation for the new. You will find your direction and have a real place to go. Cut into the problem without thought of immediate gain or purpose. Eliminate habits, ideas and structures that are outmoded and obsolete. Youngest Son and Mother, the Gatekeeper and the Midwife, are stripping away the old cycle. Heart Theme: 2 Field/Yielding, the primal power of realization. Strip away old ideas and habits, eliminate the outmoded or worn out remove, uncover, take off, cut into wound, diminish, reduce to essentials rituals of second burial, exposing and stripping the corpse.
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