☯ I Ching Hexagram Meaning
Revolution becomes believable only once it has already proven itself, and genuine change, undertaken at the right moment for the right reasons, brings supreme success. This is not change for its own sake but the deliberate replacement of what has clearly stopped working, carried out with real conviction and regret at the necessity of it.
Fire and water sit trapped together, each working to put out the other until one finally wins. Genuine reformers use this kind of decisive moment to rebuild the basic systems people rely on, replacing outdated timekeeping and old assumptions with something that actually matches how the world now works.
You are considering, or already living through, a real change — ending something that has stopped serving its purpose and replacing it with something better suited to present conditions. Revolution takes this seriously: not every change is wise, but the right change, made for the right reasons, is genuinely worth the disruption it causes.
This energy asks you to be sure of your reasons and your timing before acting, since revolutions undertaken carelessly or too early tend to earn mistrust rather than support. Once the necessity is clear and the moment is right, though, decisive change accomplishes what patience alone could never have fixed.
What has clearly stopped working in your life that a deliberate, well-timed change could finally replace?
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