☯ I Ching Hexagram Meaning
Conflict arises when sincerity meets obstruction, and caution is required. There is truth on your side, but pushing the dispute all the way through invites regret even in victory. Meeting a fair, capable mediator brings good fortune; carrying the conflict through to its bitter end does not. The wiser course is to seek resolution early, before positions harden beyond repair.
Heaven moves upward while water flows downward, two forces pulling permanently apart. In the same way, a person beginning any undertaking considers its ending carefully first, avoiding disputes whose consequences will outlast whatever was actually at stake.
You are caught in, or heading toward, a disagreement where you believe you are right, and you may well be. Conflict does not ask you to abandon your position; it asks you to notice how much a prolonged fight actually costs, regardless of who eventually wins.
This energy points toward early resolution: bringing in a fair third party, naming the disagreement honestly before it calcifies, and choosing not to escalate simply because escalation is available. Being right is not the same as being served by continuing the fight. The traditional caution here is specific — carrying a dispute all the way through tends to leave everyone worse off than a timely compromise would have.
Is this particular disagreement worth the price you will actually pay to win it completely?
Astrology is of particular interest to the psychologist, since it contains a sort of psychological experience which we call projected - this means that we find the psychological facts as it were in the constellations. This originally gave rise to the idea that these factors derive from the stars, whereas they are merely in a relation of synchronicity with them. I admit that this is a very curious fact which throws a peculiar light on the structure of the human mind. .... Carl G. Jung in 1947 in a letter to prof. B.V. Raman