4. Example 1

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At the end of my second video I invite viewers to send me readings that I can use in my videos to show how I interpret the answers of the Yijing. This is one of those readings. In this case I did not know the background of the question that was asked to the Yijing so I created one of my own.
When I finished my video I showed it to the sender of the question asking her for feedback: what did she find useful, what part of my interpretation didn't fit, etc. This was her reply (warning - contains spoilers. Best to read it after you have watched the video):
"It was quite impressive and useful both in terms of meaning and the thinking process.
The background scenario you invented is correct and very accurate in many details: I do love my work, it is very creative (for me at least and that was one big issue in my question to Yijing), it does involve clients all over the world and I did use a more personal approach in the works submitted. They certainly caused a silent but eloquent reaction in one of my bosses and some of my colleagues. I agree ‘reluctant’ was one possible term for that, but not quite ‘it’. With hindsight I can say they were ‘worried’ about the consequences of my going ‘out of the box’ because generalization and uniformity are key values in the way the conduct their business, and I had just messed with that. The personal or ‘creative’ changes I introduced were minor, but the result was overall improved. The problem for my boss might have laid on the way to introduce them within the quality assurance process (not easy because they involved tackling works from a different perspective) the problem with my colleagues was that I might be changing their approach to the texts (I’m a translator) and maybe, extra or less mechanic (productive) work. The personal consequences were not very tasteful, some reactions were very rude, and I have been under a testing eye ever since. Tough, but challenging and rewarding in personal (not financial) terms in the end.
If I had known this way to approach my reading at the time, the fact that the inner trigram was Xun would have given me a better sense of confidence, which would have made me go through the process with a few pieces of very useful information (the wind/wood is continuation, so don’t panic; and the exploration goes inside, so keep some things to yourself).
Your way of reading the moving line helped me a lot, I never thought this in terms of balanced/unbalanced. There is a lot of food for thought when you think it this way: trigram fire is unbalanced and I NEED trigram heaven to balance that. Of course, your reading was pretty exact: they demanded more and more of me and the job with them became a burden I hardly enjoyed. However, although I did not read the answer as thoroughly as you did, I had the feeling that I had to go on, that this was important to me as a professional and that they will eventually will come to terms with this regardless of their reactions or even overreactions (and they did).
The ‘surrounding trigrams’ were a complete surprise for me and the way you used them in the reading was a kind of breakthrough! I immediately embrace them and took them into my readings."

[@mrmadmaxalot]

This really is the best channel I have found on the I Ching. It is a shame your book isn't available in English. Looking forward to the day I can read it!

[@IChingCafe]

Really enjoyed your interpretation and the lovely storytelling approach!

[@YiTubeChannel]

Thanks!

[@lauralizarragaortiz7629]

I got this same answer in a personal matter, more than a year ago. Your interpretation is spot on! Thank you very much!

[@earldelarosaflores1883]

Maraming salamat!

[@kevinu.k.7042]

Regarding the Baoti - This makes so much sense. Much to think about. Thanks

[@advandepol7537]

I have just read your book -de i tjing stap voor stap-. I started 30 years ago with the study of the i ching, but used it the last 20 years at some rare occasions. And it didn't occur often that i was satisfied with the divination. You have shown a whole new light on the I Ching, something I was looking for for a very long time, and it turned out to be so closeby (I am dutch). And the remarkeble thing is that it isn't even translated in english. But I did find some imperfections or questions, which I will address one by one in the following comments.

[@YiTubeChannel]

Ad, thanks for your detailed comments. This is not the place to go into errors and other issues in my book; in any case, I will pass on the errors to the publisher, hoping they will do something with them. As for interpreting: it is important that you choose your own path in that, just as I did in my book and all the videos with examples. There is nothing right or wrong, you work with what you see and what it does to you, and draw your conclusions from that. That means I don't always stick to what I write in my book :-) There are no rules, at most there are guidelines.

[@advandepol7537]

Thank you for all your effort to find the truth behind I Ching divination@@YiTubeChannel

[@MazelTov1981]

Could you recommend a book that describes the symbology of trigrams, qualities, hierarchies, etc? As you use it for your interpretation.

[@YiTubeChannel]

Well, there is my Dutch book 'De I Tjing stap voor stap'... Other than that I really don't know any books that teach you how to work with trigrams. What comes closest I think is Charles Poncé, 'The Nature of the I Ching'. But he mixes it with some Western ideas that I don't find useful. Nevertheless I think this book comes closest to a book that teaches you to work with the trigrams. It is published in 1970 and should be available as a used copy for a decent price.

[@MazelTov1981]

@@YiTubeChannel For when an edition of your book translated into English or Spanish? 😁

[@YiTubeChannel]

@@MazelTov1981 I'm working on that...But first I have to finish my book on Wenwang Gua :-D

[@irfankortschak8073]

@@YiTubeChannel I love your approach to working with trigrams! But any Dutch I ever knew I forgot by the time I was about 10. How are you going with the translation project?

[@YiTubeChannel]

@@irfankortschak8073 It's going waaaaayyy to slow. So much work to do, so little time... But I also like to do videos like the one that I did recently, about 'crossing the great river.' That kind of work is more or less related to my translation project.

[@paulus4734]

I started learning about the I Ching recently. At 8 min you state that the 5th line is King & Nobility. In the book I use in table The Five ranks of nobility and Hexagram rulers (Wu Jue) Line 6 is King (Wang) and Line 5 is Duke (Gong). Confusing.

[@YiTubeChannel]

What is the exact source for your line associations? I have never seen the king being associated with the 6th line before.

[@JavierGenolet65]

Gracias

[@curiosity19]

Will it matter if I consider the side of the Chinese coin with the 4 characters as the "head?" Because when I started learning iChing, I thought that the side with the 4 characters was the head. Now, that I found out that the true head of the coin is the one with the 2 Chinese characters, it makes doing iChing kind of weird. Would you suggest that I use real coins (like a nickel here in the US) instead?

[@catalint4010]

It actually doesn't matter. You just have to decide what is heads and tails and stick to your decision for the rest of the process. I also use the side of the Chinese coin with 4 characters as the "heads". I did some research and found guides about old Chinese coins where the 4 character side is called the obverse or heads and the 2 character side is declared the reverse or tails. Good luck with your readings.

[@curiosity19]

@@catalint4010 Thank you so much Catalin, I really appreciate it =)

[@RobertJones-gq3jq]

You sold me on the bouti and huti. The Kemetic (Egyptian) God of wisdom is called Tehuti, which contains huti. Hmmm