Trivia

Oracle of Love Hexagram 9

The hexagram means ordinariness and insignificance. It also refers to detail, in the sense that details are unimportant in comparison to the big picture or main event.

Insignificance is a relative value. There remains a usefulness and enjoyment in the most trivial and ordinary of things. High culture will recognise every opportunity for pleasure and interest no matter how slight.

Pay attention to trivia. One is likely to trip over details that are overlooked or miss commonplace opportunities. But ambition in attending to trivia would be misdirected.

This is a time to deal with ordinary affairs or to take pleasure in trivial details even if they are unimportant.

Pay attention to small things like worms and germs and marbles and fuses and keys and hairclips.

Contribute only small efforts to any project and make only small investments at this time.

This interpretation differs from classical I Ching interpretations, in that it does not describe a taming power of smallness, but physical manifestations that are small or unimportant. Taming power as restraint is the subject of hexagrams 26 'Universal Power' and 34 'Power'.