I Ching - No.5 - Hsu - 'Waiting' by Faye Edmondson

This is the original watercolour painting. Picture size 75cm H x 75cm W.

*All the original works are mounted in black painted wooden frames and glazed.

Please note - the image you see online is faintly watermarked for Copyright Protection.

Interpretation.

The idea of waiting is suggested by the attributes of the two trigrams, strength within, danger in front. Strength in the face of danger does not plunge ahead but bides its time, whereas weakness in the face of danger grows agitated and does not have the patience to wait. No direct action can be taken at the present. All beings have need of nourishment of one kind or another but this will come in its own time, we cannot make it come, we have to wait. We should not worry and seek to shape the future by interfering in things before the time is ripe. We should quietly fortify the body with food and drink and the mind with gladness and good cheer. Fate comes when it will. Patient anticipation is not wishful thinking. There is an inner certainty of reaching the goal. There is an opportunity for standing back and getting an objective view of the matter and once the situation is seen clearly and unemotionally the best way forward will start to emerge.