Tai • Advance
NAME AND STRUCTURE
Tai is one of the most auspicious words in the Chinese language. Originally it meant “more than” or “most.” It generally indicates a condition of being more than great. Tai also means peace, safety, security, good health; or it suggests progression, proceeding, advancing. Both Wilhelm and Blofeld translate Tai as Peace. In this book, the word Advance is adopted.
The ideograph of Tai consists of two parts. The upper portion represents greatness. The ancient Chinese believed that Heaven and Earth were great, and that human beings were also great. Thus, the ideograph looks like a person standing with arms and legs wide open. Underneath the two legs, there is the ideograph of water, sui. It looks exactly like the primary gua Kan , or Water, standing upright. This ideograph presents the picture of running water proceeding forward smoothly with great ease. This is the primary meaning of Tai in the I Ching. [Alfred Huang The Complete I Ching]
Decision
alfred huang the complete i ching
Advance.
The little is departing,
The great is arriving.
Good fortune.
Prosperous and smooth.
Commentary on the Decision
Advance.
The little is departing;
The great is arriving.
Good fortune.
Prosperous and smooth.
Heaven and Earth unite ;
All beings come into union .
The upper and the lower link ;
Their wills are the same .
The inner is the yang; the outer is the yin .
The inner is the strong; the outer is the gentle .
The inner is the superior; the outer is the inferior .
Thus ,
The way of the superior is expanding ;
The way of the inferior is shrinking .
Commentary on the Symbol
Heaven and Earth are moving together.
An image of Advance.
In correspondence with this,
The ruler gives full play to his ability and wisdom
To complete the Tao of Heaven and Earth,
And assists their suitable arrangement,
to influence people.
Another topical Yi Cast, this one wondering out loud about whether or not 2024 is going to be an unusually turbulent year in the US. It certainly looks that way: the economy is very questionable, the border porous with reports of thousands of young, single military age males from China and Iran coming up from the Darion Gap in Panama all expenses paid, many hundreds of food facilities burned down with minimal press coverage, political surrealism quotient on both sides off the scale, unjustified wars in Ukraine and Israel and so forth. Will 2024 be a year in which chaos comes to a head and boils over?
Well, in the Past we have Exhaustion, a sense of good karma running out, flowing away. The Present and main Hexagram #11 Tai, Peace-Advance – is very fortuitous however there are three changing lines which indicate significant instability and which change into #50 Cauldron, which has a sense of things indeed coming to a boil and in so doing effecting change, especially since in the Future on the way to #50 we have #51 Shock! Doubled, indicated great change, great shifts, something shocking. Underlying all, the Nuclear Hexagram is #54, traditionally quite negative, indicating inappropriate liasons, relationships. Given the context of #11 which is Heaven below Earth above which in a large societal context can be said to relate to the People and the Leadership, it seems the Leadership from below (Heaven) is corrupt from the get-go (1st-lowest line changing) and the entire basis of the current order will soon be changing into Wood in the lower trigram of #50 which feeds its upper trigram Fire. This blazing and intense change process can effect positive results but they will involve profoundly challenging change. The inappropriate relations between leaders and followers must be resolved somehow and it seems from this Reading that yes indeed this will involve some shocks and ‘boiling over’.
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