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(Note: a reading behind much of this article:
Question: ‘Yi, why do we ask for predictions?’
Answer: Hexagram 45, unchanging.)
The more fatalistic you are – the more you believe that some things are just destined to happen to you and some are not – the more it makes sense to ask for predictions. I’m more inclined to think of people as mostly the authors of their own lives, so a lot of prediction questions just don’t make sense to me – they don’t seem to acknowledge the real world.
How could anyone ever resolve this dilemma, but I'm pretty much always stuck at thinking that if we really have so much control and free will, most of us would have much better lives. Also it would have to go both ways - i.e. people who really do have great lives, is it really because they've somehow managed to exercise their free will so much better than everyone else?
Also, at the opposite extreme, there can be a certain arrogance behind ‘How can I?’ – insisting that the universe dispense the required answer, regardless of what’s real.
For example if you've applied for two different jobs, and you're offered the (significantly) worse one first, and you can only stall them for so long, so what you really want to know is "Will I be offered the better one" or its first cousin, "Will I hear from the better one in time?" How do you frame that to yourself, and then to Yi, to give yourself the best chance with the answer? (And it gets worse the nearer you are to the deadline.) There's most likely nothing you can actually do to affect the situation...?
(Yi might give you a clear response no matter what, but this is more about you approaching Yi, not how Yi will answer.)
Clarity,
Office 17622,
PO Box 6945,
London.
W1A 6US
United Kingdom
Phone/ Voicemail:
+44 (0)20 3287 3053 (UK)
+1 (561) 459-4758 (US).