Another Yi. We have started moving up the hill to new property and will need a while to set in, so still no composing going on apart from regular haiku which have taken to publishing on X. Will compile some of the better ones into a pdf and publish here soon perhaps. But there’s another excuse for all the Yi Readings: the news has been quite dramatic of late, both with domestic US politics and on the geopolitical stage. I suspect things will continue to heat up as summer peaks in Northern nations.
This one is about a post I read on X by a reputable lawyer which states that if Bobby K wins enough States in the electoral college to prevent either Biden or Trump from getting to 270, then the Presidency is decided by votes in the Congress, which has happened in US history before. As far as I know this is an accurate statement. But will it happen? I queried the Yi. Am not sure I got a clear answer, actually, but some of the commentary from the two thousand year old text, especially in the changing lines, was remarkably apropos to the subject matter, so that’s something. There is also clear reference to his having powerful ancestors.
One overall dynamic is the Hexagram #62 Preponderance of the Small juxtaposed both by Nuclear and Derived #28 Preponderance of the Great. One is energy directed inward (two yang lines in the middle) to energy directing outwards (four yang lines in the middle). The first, #62, generally advises that one should avoid trying to fly high and rather stay low (though the changing line about shooting into a cave to get game is provocative in this context of waiting for Congress to elect the President versus winning it by the usual elective process); but #28, unusually both the Nuclear and Derived, is the opposite of #62, from emphasizing smallness to greatness. A powerful time. Big things might happen, but also they could all be too much and the ‘ridgpole’ will collapse. There is a lot going on with these Hexagrams which to my mind means Bobby has a shot, though generally he should keep a low profile during these overheated times.
Of note: #28 was the Past Influence Hexagram of the recent Biden-Trump Cast. The American socio-political dynamic has got to a boiling point, it’s all too much. There is no reasonable middle, rather the excess has to continue to its natural end, which will turn out to be some sort of breakage or collapse. This really has to happen first before any sort of reform or repair can take place. This is what the repetition of #28 in these Casts seemingly indicate.
Here is the Reading:
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