Hexagram 22

Flower Power

Adorning, expansion
Small harvest: proceeding using a sounding rod

(The great image says:)
Fire below the mountain: budding
The noble one has insight in many people's affairs without daring to judge in legal cases.


Mountain
Fire

day 20 of a yang moon

 

   Beauty is Qi showing. When life-energy is present, colors become living and warm, proportions become like the golden section, balance will be created. All coming from out the inner life. A beautiful face or a rich fur, lustrous leaves and flowers, a splendid stream or forest or landscape, they all talk about their inherent health.
    Energy and beauty belong together.  

BÌ: The character represents a flowering plant, which means brilliant, ornate, to honor. Pronounced 'ben' it is ardent, brave, energetic. Truly "flower power".
BÌ: bright, decoration, brilliant, bright, luminous, ornate, to honor
, adorning. Pronounced ben1: ardent, brave, energetic, strenuous, to forge ahead, to blossom out, zest. Pronounced fen2: great. Pronounced fen4: defeated. Also in an inscription used for a kind of sacrifice. More on hex.22 HERE

9 at 3: Then energetic, then penetrating like water (lingering?). Ever flowing determination auspicious.
Honor strength as well as beauty, action as well as relaxation
, inside as well as outside. Only if both sides of life's aspects are present, one will live. One-sidedness makes rigid and vulnerable.
(Changes to hex.27)

 

Above 9: White energy. Without fault.
Value announces itself plain. It is easier to find truth, love or peace where things are simple. Lots of decoration is usually a sign of little essence.
(Changes to hex.36)
6 at 2: Energetic in one's waiting-spell.
Waiting by letting time flow by is a waste. Waiting is part of life, so let it live. Or use it to restore your energy. Any part of life thrown away is a crime against life. Make waiting a beautiful thing in its own right.
(Changes to hex.26)

6 at 5: Energetic to a hilltop garden. The bundle silks is very small. distress. The end is auspicious.
Do what brings joy to you. Don't look with other people's eyes, don't look for profit. Maybe it seems as if you have little to offer, but in the long run you will be valuable for yourself as well as for others.
(Changes to hex.37)

 

Initial 9 : Energetic in one's feet. Abandon cart and go on foot.
Anything you do which is really you is beautiful and creative. Be wary of the danger of tools and examples. Every use of them takes part of your own doing away. They add possibilities and comfort, will maybe bring admiration - but people always long back to the good old uncomfortable days when life was still simple and real. Tools bring the accomplishments of today, your own creativity connects to the eternal sources. 
(Changes to hex.52)

 

6 at 4: Then energetic, then silver haired, then a white horse soaring up (then a shaggy - or longhaired - white horse). No bandits, marriage. 
Show what you really are. Make-believe and macho work for a short time, but people will mistrust it. What seems less, but is true, will find belief and honor. And don't fix truth, every moment can have its own truth, live them as they come along.
(Changes to hex.30)
The Sabian Symbols for the hexagram-lines
9 at 3 corresponds to b 20: The Zuni sun worshipers
Suns and Gods shine on all kinds of people alike
Above 9 corresponds to h 20: A big white dove, a message bearer. 
6 at 2 corresponds to ` 20: A cafeteria.  6 at 5 corresponds to f 20: Men cutting through ice. 
Initial 9 corresponds to ^ 20: A young girl feeding birds in winter.  6 at 4 corresponds to d 20: A Jewish rabbi.
He lives the One behind him
For the meaning of  Eminent - expansion. Harvest - determination click HERE