Seeking union and belonging

I Ching with Clarity podcast – I Ching with Clarity

A listener's reading for this episode of the I Ching with Clarity podcast: Vidia asked, 'How can I move forward and be of service?' Yi answered with Hexagram 8, Seeking Union, with no changing lines - a beautifully simple answer that gave us the opportunity for a deep dive into its imagery and stories. Mentioned during our conversation… The name of the hexagram, bi, with its two human figures walking close together: Bi, name of Hexagram 8 Rilke on living the questions: …I would like to beg you dear Sir, as well as I can, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.from Letters to a Young Poet And the nuclear hexagram of 8, which is 23, Stripping Away: (Here's a quick introduction to nuclear hexagrams.)