Choosing Companions Wisely Brings Power and Light

Inner Truth 61 and its inverse Preponderance of the Small 62 have come up several times in recent weeks. Today it is Inner Truth or the Great Li, Fire, Clarity. (Just as Preponderance of the Small is the Great K'an made of the doubling of each line of the trigram K'an, the Great Li is formed by the doubling of each line of Li: two strong Yang lines, two weak Yin lines and then two strong Yang lines) The image of this hexagram is the wind blowing over the lake. It generally means dependability. To possess the power of Inner Truth is amazing: it gives the power to influence 'even pigs and fishes.' The idea here is that if you can communicate this inner truth you can persuade the lowest creatures to follow you -- even the instinctual natures of our selves or others.

The third line indicates an emotional roller coaster: laughing and crying with each change in circumstances. It also indicates beating on a drum, an indication of advance in battle. The difficulty is this line wants the fourth as a comrade but it is not possible hence the unstable emotions. The fourth line leaves its mate, the third line, and turns upward to the fifth line, the ruler of the hexagram.

These changes lead to the formation of hexagram 1, the Creative, made of six light lines. It is the most powerful hexagram and represents heaven or the father. It means having the inner strength to work without tiring. Like the Energizer bunny. I guess that makes it appropriate for Father's Day.

Maybe this whole divination means 'choose your parents carefully.' If you are reading this, chances are you already chose, and I wish you every happiness. If you are not that happy with your parents maybe when you choose next time you will be more careful. Of course that does sound ridiculous: no one chooses their parents, do they? If we imagined that we did choose them maybe we could see what about them was right for us.