Abundance vs. Excess

[sdi]

Since I started working with geomancy, I have consistently found Acquisitio, the figure of abundance, to be the most inauspicious figure by a mile: always a signal of extreme stress. This has been a source of great confusion to me, since every textbook I've seen considers it to be, generally speaking, the most favorable figure of all.

Today I noticed Nigel Richmond's commentary on I Ching figure 28, "Excess," which says, "We recognize excess by the stress it creates: without stress excess is felt as abundance."

Oh. Well, then.

Comments

[temporaryreality]

Kind of akin to the third part of the Buddhist take: dissatisfaction when you don't get the things you want, dissatisfaction when you get them (and they're transient), and dissatisfaction when you get too much.

[sdi]

I would say you get dissatisfaction even when you don't want the things you have too little, the right amount of, or too much of :)

[temporaryreality]

True that!:D