I Ching, Yijing or Zhou Yi
"Oracle of the moon": © 2000 LiSe
Yi Jing, Oracle of the Moon
Xùn-Kūn, Wind-Earth
When Xùn becomes Kūn, your affinity with the earth will be tested. Knowing or seeing well makes judging or deciding difficult. Knowing or seeing little makes it easy. The choices you make create the road to your destiny, your conscience grows the flowers on its sides. The people you meet with love will give you water when you are thirsty or a bed when you are tired. Question the easy decisions and cherish the difficult ones, when autumn comes, they are your harvest.
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The initiative
The top line (Heaven-line) shows the change of the focus or initiative.
变上爻为坎, 风入水面, 为浪为波, 漂泊劳碌,
小 人尤畏, 亦为混浊之乖, 少全清节,
有 岸覆舟之虞。
When the upper line changes, Wind activates Water. The wind penetrates the surface of the water, making waves and swells. Busy activity but drifting aimlessly.
Little people are very fearful and there is also the shrewdness of corruption, few are completely honest.
There is worry, like when a boat is in danger of crashing on the shore.
The subject
The bottom line (Earth-line) shows the change of the field or subject.
The Earth-line is unchanging yin. This line is the subject, or the ‘field’ where you pour in or find both the cause and the means for your initiative: space, material, helpers or other people, resources and realization, even food for thought. It is a 'receiving' line, the earth needs input and resources to make things grow and bring concrete results.
Your subject or project will stay attractive, but it will continue to absorb and process and use it to continue the work. It will not shine on its own or show increase to the outside, the work of building up happens in the background.
Beauty comes from the space within.
The outcome
The middle line (Man-line) shows the outcome.
变中爻为艮, 风势入山. 动摇山岳. 令命上行, 人多敬畏。
When Xùn's middle line changes it activates Gěn. The wind penetrates the mountains and agitates their lofty heights; the destiny of life goes up, this person gets a lot of awe.
The three helpers
Each line, active or at rest, summons one of the 8 trigrams as a Helper.
For an activated line: telling you what you need - or about a problem area or something to avoid.
For a stationary line: this is what you already have or do or what you don't need. Often we just need a reminder of our abilities. Or it could be what you wish or fear - but will not happen.
Active lines are the helpers to change things, they listen to intentions, which can come from you, surroundings, or fate. Stationary helpers are part of the core meaning, they are your soul talking, but they also see the impossibilities. They reinforce the overall power of a reading.
Advice or help for the initiative:
Kan, Water, with his direction and focus, his courage to take risks and his talent to give things shape.
Advice or help for the subject:
Xun, Wind, with her power to choose and influence, is lacking here or not needed. Yin remains Yin.
Advice or help for the outcome:
Gen, Mountain with his constancy, his ability to make things endure.
But when things are not satisfying, it might be that one or more helpers don't help enough - or try too hard. Or maybe you don't listen carefully enough.