Article 84 – Bucs @ Lions Playoff
SEED SYLLABLE ANALYSIS:
DETROIT LIONS
Symbol: Rampant Lion. Colour: Blue – water, cool, cold; Lion: powerful; clawing; attacking, offensive; also on the back foot, somewhat defensive. Also ready to spring forward and maul the opponent with powerful claws and teeth. This team should balance offense and defense. The black and white zones surrounding the Lions are a little hum-drum. Well, Detroit is a utilitarian manufacturing town, not artsy. Water is the element associated with Kidney which provide basic Will, Drive, determination to the Heart (fire). The Lion exemplifies Heart, Spirit so this team depends upon guts, fearlessness, spirit drive. Detroit is a working class town under duress. Lions are proud and splendid and the home atmosphere given this is their first home playoff game in something like 70 years, is going to be tremendous. That puts huge pressure on the team but if they can ride it they will be very powerful. Especially the leadership in the upper trigram wherein all three lines are changing. This is also perhaps where the opponents defense lies.
Goff is a brilliant but not well respected QB after the way he was fired following a Superbowl loss and his successor, Stafford, went and won it. He is thin and lanky and thus no match for the huge monsters swarming him. Quite possibly the Bucs Defense is going to give Jared Goff the Lions QB a very challenging game. He is known to have difficulty with pressure like all Qbs but he is known to be vulnerable that way. So alot comes down the Offensive Line protecting him. The rampant lion claws indicate alot of attack straight in front, either from running or passing over the middle. Also a lot of fighting at the Line.
Since the Lions logo is mixed offense-defense it’s tricky to assign one or the other to lower-upper trigrams. In any case, in this Cast the upper trigram with 3 changing lines perhaps indicates instability at the QB level (L4), the Coach Level (L5) and the Team Spirit Level (L6). This looks stable on the Defensive side (lower trigram, 3rd line) but might be unstable on the Offensive side (upper trigrams, 4th line)
The Lions are #3 on Offense, very high, whereas the Bucs are way down the list. Their line is ‘one of the best’ according to the commentator.
On Defense they are #19 but the Bucs are #23.
For the Lions to win they are going to have to dig deep.
TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS
Red: warm, crossed swords: violent; Skull: deadly, also a little silly; flag: strong spirit; flag on sword: also a little silly. Crossed swords over a football: playful.
It is hard to take this team seriously, though Tom Brady took them to the Superbowl. However, whoever said sports is a serious business? Men break bones, win and lose millions, yes, but it is not fundamentally serious. At least this team has a strong, bold, hot-blooded, swashbuckling logo.
To win, they must play with passion and do the unexpected, repel borders or swarm their opponent with fierce, surpise attacks. They are the underdogs against a team with huge home support. They are going to have to be true pirate to take the prize!
NOTE:
Will publish this AFTER the game and add in post-game analysis to see what in the Hexagrams conforms to what actually happened (and which I missed).
Now, a quick, ‘down and dirty’ YiJing analysis of the upcoming game which starts in less than an hour from the time of the Cast.
THE CAST 64-3,4,5 > 29 < 63
PRIMARY: #64 BEFORE FINISHING, NOT OVER Changing Lines: 3,4,5
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Does this mean: this game won’t be the last? Or: they won’t make it to the End/SB?
DERIVED: #29 THE ABYSMAL
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NUCLEAR: #63 AFTER FINISHING, COMPLETION
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The entire top hexagram changes from Fire to Water. The Derived is ‘The Abysmal’ Water doubled. This is about digging deep, warriorship, going with the flow, a supreme challenge. If they hold to their spirit, they will prevail. If they don’t they will be broken. #64 indicates that for them it is not over, close to the end, but not over. Looks like the Lions will win a hard fought game. And the main battle is against the Bucs star-studded Defense (top three lines). Their offense is Water below, which is turbulent and dangerous but also fluid and dynamic. This is going to be a heckuva game!
The lower trigram water indicates this will be a fluid game, perhaps with many changing leads, ups and downs, good and bad periods. It will be emotionally draining. The changing upper trigram means it will be volatile.
Lions blue = water; Bucs red = Fire. #64 and #63 feature both fire and water. This will be a close-fought battle between the two.
Top trigram changing from Fire (Bucs) to Water (Lions) indicates the Lions prevail over the Bucs. Perhaps by first overwhelming their Line (4), then the quarterback (5), then the team spirit (6). Also, could indicate that the Quarterback in Line 5 consolidates the offense becoming the central line and leader in #29 Double Water, indicating also that both Offense and Defense remain strong. Basically they have to find a way to hold strong and be true to their core character – Lion Rampant! – and then get the upper hand and roll over and through them like a wave (Double Water #29).
Nuclear #63 After Completion: the context for this whole business is winning a Superbowl, which is the End Goal here. They have a chance. If they make it through Before Finishing #64 to Warriorship, Digging Deep, Overcoming Fear #29 they have a bona fide shot at the ultimate prize.
AFTER THE GAME:
The Lions won handily though it was a well fought game and both sides and quarterbacks played well. Indeed, it was an excellent playoff game. And emotionally fantastic for the home crowd witnessing such a victory for the first time in living memory.
As the Hexagrams I am not sure how to interpret them after the event. I’ll paste in what was written above:
“The entire top hexagram changes from Fire to Water. The Derived is ‘The Abysmal’ Water doubled. This is about digging deep, warriorship, going with the flow, a supreme challenge. If they hold to their spirit, they will prevail. If they don’t they will be broken. #64 indicates that for them it is not over, close to the end, but not over. Looks like the Lions will win a hard fought game. And the main battle is against the Bucs star-studded Defense (top three lines). Offense here is Water below, which is turbulent and dangerous but also fluid and dynamic. This is going to be a heckuva game!
The lower trigram water indicates this will be a fluid game, perhaps with many changing leads, ups and downs, good and bad periods. It will be emotionally draining. The changing upper trigram means it will be volatile.”
Pretty good call!
POSTSCRIPT: These are just playful entries showing how one can use esoteric principles to analyze ordinary everyday cultural phenomena, and the same goes for the Yi Reading. The point was not to try to nail a prediction necessarily but see if I could look into a Hexagram and see patterns that may or may not relate to an NFL football game. And it really wasn’t that hard, though I have been peering into Hexagrams for several decades now. Somehow the juxtaposition of old textual guidelines for interpreting the thrust of each hexagram, the chance element of whatever one gets from casting coins which cannot be controlled, one’s own growing collection of associations with the lines, trigrams and hexagrams, applying some sort of intuitive pattern analysis just looking at various aspects of how the lines relate with each other, singly or in combination, one’s own attitude about the subject matter, and finding a way to relate it all together somehow.
This is a different way of looking at things from the modernist materialist approach, put it that way.
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