Jun 29 21
Ten of Wands
46. Pushing Upward
Petite Reading
Our card and hexagram were thoroughly linked this week. Both are about the persistence of personal will. The combination winds up saying something like: Do not be glamorous or lazy with you endeavors — rather be resolute in purpose and flexible of method. You can do anything (within reason) if you persevere — make your personal mantra “no haste and no rest.”
Complete Reading
This week we pulled the Ten of Wands. This card indicates that one is involved in a large, possibly overburdensome project (or projects). The scenario is causing fatigue and even doubt. However, success is assured if you continue through to the end. If you give up… Who knows. (Don’t give up.)
There’s only a single hexagram this week; so how we enter it will be relatively how we exit it. The hexagram is #46, Pushing Upward. Here we have our single favorite metaphor/proverb in the entirety of the I Ching: “Adapting itself to obstacles and bending around them, wood in the earth grows upward without haste and without rest. Thus too the superior person is devoted in character and never pauses in their progress.”
Our card and hexagram were thoroughly linked this week. Both are about the persistence of personal will. The combination winds up saying something like: Do not be glamorous or lazy with you endeavors — rather be resolute in purpose and flexible of method. You can do anything (within reason) if you persevere — make your personal mantra “no haste and no rest.”
Complete Reading
This week we pulled the Ten of Wands. This card indicates that one is involved in a large, possibly overburdensome project (or projects). The scenario is causing fatigue and even doubt. However, success is assured if you continue through to the end. If you give up… Who knows. (Don’t give up.)
There’s only a single hexagram this week; so how we enter it will be relatively how we exit it. The hexagram is #46, Pushing Upward. Here we have our single favorite metaphor/proverb in the entirety of the I Ching: “Adapting itself to obstacles and bending around them, wood in the earth grows upward without haste and without rest. Thus too the superior person is devoted in character and never pauses in their progress.”