if once you believe
each beneficent event
becomes evidence
each tribulation64:guess
ev'ry obstacle makes you
believe yet fiercer
mountain over fire64:grace
it furthers he who works now
in might and power
mountain over fire
thus does the superior
in small things further
* notes on i ching. i think the two labeled 64 might be about particular "active" lines in that hexagram, but cannot entirely remember what i was up to when these were composed. . . . which is sort of funny when you think about what divination by consultation of the i ching is, because those active lines of those particular hexagrams should comprehensively describe the moment at which they were the result of the consultation. alas that i lack facile access to complete knowledge, and haven't consulted my own records (and shan't), or gone to the book itself to see what those hexagrams - and the commentaries - have to say about that moment.
i could reconstruct that, maybe. but they didn't seem entirely inappropriate to now, either. which, with consideration of availability and selection bias, raises interesting questions about the oracle, and bibliomancy in general, in the age of the socially networked and profiled or self-selecting newsreader.
anyway, i haven't consulted the oracle in some time; something raised doubts in my mind as to my correct understanding of how to generate the hexagrams via the coin method. when i read the preface years ago, the description of the yarrow-stalk method was inscrutable, and i didn't even know what a yarrow-stalk was) i'm sure, today, there are instructional videos on the yarrow-stalk technique freely available in the intercyclopaedia. . . ha! there is (thanks to gswarner at youtube):
maybe i should watch that and learn, and try again. hmm, "kua" like in pakua: 8 kua