1.The Creative, Heaven Above: The Creative, Heaven Below: The Creative, Heaven |
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Appetite; consuming all it sees. The motive for action must be clear. Desire objectifies things. Detachment adds perspective and locates these things properly. Before deciding on an action detach yourself from your desires. Yet to deny inclination is to deny your sources. Identify where yearnings and appetites arise. Do this and you will be free of fault. Conceit and complacency lead to trouble. Humility brings focus and solutions. Balance is found when desire is understood, and harnessed like an energy. Then appetite can help nourish the soul, not just the body. |
Below are the comparative interpretations of a) Legge, b) Willhelm, c) Riefler, d) Crowley
a) The dragon lying hid ( in the deep). It is no time to act.
b) Hidden Dragon. Do not act.
c) The dragon lies hidden in the deep.
d) The dragon lurks. It is no time to act.
e) Until you know do not go.
a) The dragon appearing in the field
b) Dragon appearing in the field. It furthers one to see the great man.
c) The dragon appears in the field. Confer with the Great man.
d) The dragon's in the field; now make thy pact.
e) The time has come, make your accommodations.
a) The superior man active and vigilant all the day, and in the evening still careful and apprehensive. (the position) is dangerous, but there will be no mistake.
b) All day long the superior man is creatively active. At nightfall his mind is still beset with cares. Danger. No blame.
c) By day he is active and vigilant. By night he is careful and apprehensive. Danger but no mistakes.
d) Be active, watchful, using care and tact.
e) In perilous times be creative by day and careful by night
a) The dragon looking as if he were leaping up, but still in the deep. There will be no mistake
b) Wavering flight over the depths. No blame
c) The dragon leaps up from the deep. No mistakes
d) The dragon leaps, a bursting cataract
e) Nothing lost in preparing by learning.
a) The dragon on the wing in the sky. It will be advantageous to meet the great man.
b) Flying dragon in the heavens. It furthers one to see the great man.
c) The dragon wings through the sky. Confer with the great man.
d) the dragon ploughs the sky with pace exact.
e) Inspiration take wing, navigate by your origins.
a) the dragon exceeding the proper limits. There will be occasion for repentance.
b) Arrogant dragon will have cause to repent.
c) The dragon overreaches. Guilt.
d) Exceed not, dragon! lest thy force react.
e) Conceit leads to folly!
Hex 1 Line 7
a) (The lines of this hexagram are all strong and undivided, as appears from) the use of the number nine. If the host of dragons (thus appearing were to divest themselves of their heads, there would be good fortune.
b) There appears a flight of dragons without heads. Good fortune
c) A swarm of headless dragons. Auspicious.
d) (If all this heavenly host of dragons lacked Their heads, good fortune would become a fact.)
a) Without foot or hand, sharp and strong teeth
b) By a globe, in the middle of the port, and the first born,
c) Near the gate shall be transported by the traitor.,
d) The moon shineth, the little great one carried away.