Mei Hua and Images

A while ago when we were strongly focused on WWG I got the impression that one of the things people didn't really get is how the "Setting" work.

AK presented very interesting way of using that that explained a lot for me back then, yet I get the impression the majority of the researchers didn't really get what that was or how to use it.

So lets go into it one more time, few years later, as not much has changed, the material there is still very good and needed, no matter what else may have happened meanwhile... So lets present a simple example. Someone ate our potato salad at work.  We suspect our boss did. So we ask - "Did my boss eat my salad?"

We receive Zhen on top of Kun as Hexagram16.

There are countless ways to read that, so lets say we decided to use Mei Hua to read it initially(so trigram Images).

Here we can rightly say - Zhen can show a leader, head of something, so yes, my boss indeed eat my salad!As Kun  can carry images of Earth, potatoes are growing beneath the Earth and seem very earhtly vegetable, so Kun may be the potato salad, so what is my boss doing controlling my salad - he have to have eaten it!

We go to the boss with righteousness anger and the sad thoughts of our lost salad burning, just to find, after we make a scene, that he didn't eat it, someone else did.

So what may have happened here... Was the salad somewhere else?Since we haven't set it and don't know where to expect to find it, that may be a problem, sure, however in this case the idea is to view a different problem. To get that, lets look at something else.

Lets imagine a different situation now. One of our co-workers, 50 years old male and very dynamic person, was also at our work place that day and they eat our salad.

The system, helpful as it is, is showing us very clear Mei Hua Images,as that is why we don't go into the lines, as we have decided to use Mei Hua in reading it, of a person between 35-55 years old, that is the oldest son, on top of our salad, control/weakening relation to it, possibly eating it.

Now, how are we suppose to know if the system is telling us our boss eat it or our co-worker did so?

The answer is - we set it up initially and we keep in mind if we don't we may not know later on. So if someone finds out in real life they blame their boss for something that later on in some cases ended up not their fault, thinking of how the system can answer and what else it can show could probably be helpful sometimes. As the "no setting" idea that has become somewhat popular lately, works in some cases, but its a matter of time before it misfire badly enough that one has to rethink the approach, in my humble opinion.