Chasing the answer to understanding i-ching is an insurmountable task. The interpretations are so vast and complicated that I feel like I've only begun to skim the surface of the practice. The fundamentals aren't so bad to understand, such as the coins, their adding up to yin and yang lines. The formation of the upper and lower trigrams, and the overall hexagram. Each of these elements are understandable to construct and the elements and various symbolic meanings are even graspable (is that a word?). But this is where I am feeling very sad and lost about my iching question.
I visited many websites based on my stupid little google searches. (Now I'm spoiling in my disappointment and frustrations.) I went to such sites as tribalsmile/iching/interprt.html, where I learned so much in detail how to cast my coin reading and determine it's subsequent meanings.
At this point, after determining that I had Sun/(wood/wind/gentle, feminine) in my upper trigram, over my lower trigram which was Chen/(Thunder, masculine), I began to see the vastness of potential reading interpretations. First I looked further at other websites to possible answer my questions about what does feminine over masculine mean in trigrams, or even in individual lines being yin or yang in their numbered placement within my hexagram. Then I looked simply for 'What is wood over thunder?' , at which point I did a gamble roll on a website called phsychic readings or something like that where I entered my question and got a terrible answer based on the computer generated hexogram. My question was, should I go to france for Spring, and the answer I got was that I'm chillin right now, just saying all the right words about it , and then the future will move me into danger. I guess that was a pretty clear no.
Then I continued to search for what wood means on the top trigram, and all the answers for such a question seem to be available for 19.95. The one that was free would take a rocket scientist or a mad scientist to figure out what the hell those drawings of graphs meant. That was at esoterism dot com or something like that.
Anyways, I hope to meet someone at CalArts who will just explain to me how to read these lines! For any other interpretation than the eminent doom of an answer I got for free online. Somehow the answer has cost me, at least in peace of mind.