The Love Oracle

Your current love situation

Your current situation can be depicted as "Modesty" transforming into "The Arousing (Shock, Thunder)".

In front of you lies "Mountain" which transforms into "Thunder". That means that stillness and obstruction are being transformed into movement, initiative, and action.
Behind you lies "Earth" which transforms into "Thunder". That means that docility and receptivity are being transformed into movement, initiative, and action.


The Situation

15. Ch'ien - Modesty
Above (in front): Kên - Keeping Still (Mountain)
Below (behind): K'un - The Receptive (Earth)




The Judgement for the Current Situation

Modesty creates success.
The superior man carries things through.


The Image for the Current Situation

Within the earth, a mountain:
The image of Modesty.
Thus the superior man reduces that which is too much,
And augments that which is too little.
He weighs things and makes them equal.


Interpretation of the Changing Line(s)

Line 1: A superior man modest about his modesty
May cross the great water.
Good fortune.

Line 3: A superior man of modesty and merit
Carries things to conclusion.
Good fortune.

Line 4: Nothing that would not further modesty
In movement.


The Future

51. Chên - The Arousing (Shock, Thunder)
Above (in front): Chên - The Arousing (Thunder)
Below (behind): Chên - The Arousing (Thunder)


The Judgement for the Future

Shock brings success.
Shock comes--oh, oh!
Laughing words--ha, ha!
The shock terrifies for a hundred miles,
And he does not let fall the sacrificial spoon and chalice.


The Image for the Future

Thunder repeated: the image of Shock.
Thus in fear and trembling
The superior man sets his life in order
And examines himself.