Yi: Biden post-debate Prognosis 33-1,2 > 1 < 44

NAME AND STRUCTURE
Dun is to hide, to withdraw, to retreat. Wilhelm translates Dun as Retreat and Blofeld as Yielding, Withdrawal. In this book, the term Retreat is used. The ideograph of Dun consists of two parts. On the left is an ideograph from the remote past. Three curved strokes represent three footprints moving forward. Underneath the three strokes is a tiny ideograph, zhi, meaning “stop.” These two ideographs create a picture of going forward and stopping abruptly. The ideograph on the right is complicated, consisting of three pictures: a little pig, a piece of meat, and a hand. A piece of pork is offered as a sacrifice at a memorial ceremony. The little pig is cut into two portions —shown at the top and the bottom of the ideograph. In the middle, there is a piece of meat at the left and a hand at the right. Taken together, this is a picture of someone performing a sacrificial ceremony during a retreat.
Sequence of the Gua: Things cannot abide long in the same place. Thus, after Long Lasting, withdrawal and retreat follow.
The structure of the gua is Heaven above, Mountain below. The attribute of Heaven is creative power. In this gua it represents a sage who lives in accordance with the will of Heaven. The attribute of Mountain is keeping still. The structure shows that a sage confronts stillness and retreats.
There are four solid lines and two yielding lines in this gua. The two yielding lines stand at the bottom. They are moving forward. This is a situation where inferior persons were multiplying and increasing in power. It is time for the wise to retreat. Retreat is not flight. To flee, to escape danger in any circumstance, is cowardly. But retreating can also be aimed at preserving one’s strength, waiting for the right time for future advance. A wise person uses strength properly.
When the time is not right, retreat. King Wen’s Decision says that for the little it is favorable to be steadfast and upright. The word little denotes inferior people. In the time favoring the inferior, it is better for the wise to retreat, keeping steadfast and upright for future advancement.
This gua, Dun, is one of the twelve tidal gua. It represents the sixth month of the Chinese lunar calendar. [Alfred Huang: The Complete I Ching.]

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Attached are two readings, one from a Cast using the 3-coin method (my default) and another using a calculation based on Date and Time. They both come out with a decidedly negative view. In the news since the debate between the two main political leaders in the US the media immediately pounded on Senior Citizen Joe who had a prolonged, 90 minute ‘senior moment’. Personally, I thought both candidates performed poorly on several levels with neither one saying anything truly memorable or insightful, but that’s just me: am not a voting American citizen or resident so don’t have that much skin in the game, although of course what happens in the States still affects the whole world. Whether the media reaction was the result of mysterious coordination – which it certainly appeared to be – or a natural phenomenon, the result of the debate was to instantly place doubt on Joe Biden’s candidacy going forward and this perspective runs through the following two readings.

The one based on date and time is entitled ‘The Trump-Biden Debate’ so theoretically is viewing both protagonists equally. The reading is unusual in that because the Derived Hexagram (after applying the Changing Line #2) is #1 The Creative which has a binary mathematical value of zero, the calculations for the Past and Future Influence at the top and bottom of the display of five hexagrams do not change (because no yin/broken lines which are the ones with values – 1,2,4,8,16,32 from top line to bottom line, from studying which Leibnitz developed binary calculations now used in all computers).

The second Reading is from the coin cast and specifically queries ‘Biden’s Prognosis’ so rightly is focused only on the conflicted incumbent.

So with that as a caveat, both of these Readings take the view that Biden is in deep trouble at the very best, mainly leaving Trump out of the picture. That reflects the effect in the US media. The fact that the Hexagrams lend themselves so easily to this narrative to my mind indicates a certain synchronicity and therefore confidence in the Reading. Time will tell.

In 2020 I did a cast on Trump and received #3 Difficult Beginnings (of something significant) but the changing line indicated that if he lacked support he would only meet with humiliation. That proved surprisingly on the money. To this day a majority of the US population in surveys indicate they believe the election results were dishonest and there is mounting evidence to support that conclusion, though rarely mentioned in mainstream media. If true that the election which he won was taken away from him by the real powers behind the throne in the US Body Politic, then that I Ching prognostication was spot on: he lacked support from the Ruling Class so even though he was voted in by We The People, that was not enough – and he was humiliated in spades, ongoing to this day.

I did another Cast on Trump after his house was raided and they indicted him. This one clearly indicated that it would go to the Highest Court, aka SCOTUS, where it would probably be resolved. Looks like that happened last week too. There is still a chance they can nab him but the simple truth is that they never found any obvious, substantive wrong-doing and most of the cases against him are based on narrative-driven projections, created by his enemies in the Deep State and the Media who serve them, of his being an evil gauche mastermind.

So it looks like SCOTUS has deep-sixed the Deep State – at least for now. In any case, these two Readings are more about Biden since that is the major takeaway from the debate last week: they were neck and neck with Trump pulling away slightly in swing states, but within minutes of the debate ending, suddenly everyone is wondering whether Senior Citizen Joe is up to continuing as the Democrat Party candidate for President; indeed many are even arguing that he should resign the Presidency altogether and let his Vice President assume the position and both of these I Ching Casts indicate this may well be the best course both for him and the nation.

P.S. As per Huang’s commentary above, Biden’s retirement in whatever form might well happen in July, which is the sixth month of the lunar calendar year which began February 10th this year.