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Case Study<\/h2>\n\n\n
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A user asks the I Ching<\/a> about her business constellation which has served her well for a long time. Recently, however, she felt that it was time for a change as she wanted to focus on a different target group in the future. The I Ching answers with hexagram<\/a> 59 – dispersion<\/em>. The title, dispersion, confuses her: does it mean that she should liquidate her old business and then to start all over again in a new constellation?<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

At the beginning of hexagram 59 – dispersion<\/em> is Kan, the water<\/a><\/em> (lower trigram<\/a>), which refers to our own source of being, our unconscious. But what exactly is our source of being? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I think it is important to understand that we are all part of a network of mental fields that determine our actions. Our source of being is a kind of wise distillation of our own – and sometimes other people’s – information and experiences, most of which lie beyond our daily consciousness. “Gut feeling” is eventually a good term to describe this pool from which impulses and inspirations emerge – to the extent that each person allows them – which in turn can initiate our actions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And that is what happens here: Kan<\/em> transforms into Zhen, the thunder<\/a><\/em> (first core character<\/a>), representing ruling power and a determined implementation of the decisions made. As Zhen<\/em> emerges from Kan<\/em> it might be a good idea to go with your gut. After all, our gut instincts are beyond language and thus feed on much more information than the sharpest intellect. An action initiated by a gut decision usually has much greater wisdom and power than one rooted solely in our conscious mind.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The transition from Zhen to Gen: the old is overgrown by the new and thus dissolved.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Next, Zhen<\/em> turns into Gen, the mountain<\/a><\/em> (second core character): disengagement and dissolution arise from the initial decision. Such a sequence of trigrams (Kan<\/em> – Zhen<\/em> – Gen<\/em>) usually does not indicate an active, willful disengagement but rather a situation, in which the old (the withered, past structure) first persists and later on slowly dissolves, while the new structure is already growing. In this way, the old is slowly overgrown by the new, it is absorbed and \/ or integrated. Regarding the user’s initial concern: Hexagram 59 – dispersion<\/em> certainly does not indicate that she should liquidate her old business before starting a new one. Rather, she should continue in the old form for some time while gradually building up something new.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gen<\/em> eventually becomes Sun, the wind \/ tree<\/a><\/em> (upper trigram), a seemingly gentle, but actually inexorable growth, similar to a tree breaking through stone over time. The extent of the user’s personal and \/ or business growth will ultimately depend on how deeply the initial decision is rooted in her own, wise source of being, her own gut feeling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Further Questions on Hexagram 59<\/h2>\n\n\n\n