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I’m in a rough spot with a woman I believe I have a cosmic connection with. We’ve been dating for a year. Any help with the readings would be so greatly appreciated!

Last month we went on a break because I needed to set a boundary with her about anger issues. After two weeks she apologized and told me she would work harder on addressing this. Which she has. A week after we came back together she got covid. The second day I got to see her since she came out of quarantine I said some things without thinking that made her feel bad about herself. Specifically I said it looked like she had lost some weight. This was out of concern, because she is a naturally skinny person and she looked unhealthy. I didn't consider how it would make her feel self-conscious about her body. And I feel terrible about it. I have ADHD, and struggle with saying things without thinking. If this had been any other time she would’ve accepted my apology and moved on. But since we were on shakey ground she connected what I said to a larger pattern she sees as an incompatibility. I feel she's overreaching.

What it boils down to is that I think she interprets me as darker than I am. I try very hard to see things from her perspective. I always own up when I am in the wrong. I apologize immediately, and I try really hard to be the best I can be for her, for me, for both of us.

We didn’t talk over the weekend at her request. She was extremely upset with me, because this is something she’d talked to me about before. That’s also something that tends to happen when you’re in a relationship with someone with ADHD. We have poor memories, and we also tend to speak without thinking. But apparently what I said was the last straw. I spent the whole weekend thinking about what I said and how it made her feel and it gutted me. I never want to make her feel bad about herself. I only want to raise her up. And the fact that I did, even though it wasn’t intentional, made me feel horrible. I wrote her a letter about what I realized, and how sorry I felt. I went over to her house and read it to her and broke down weeping because it hurt me so much to know I hurt her, even by accident. She started crying too and said she was confused and wasn’t sure she wanted to read her letter to me. Then she did. And it was a break up letter. We went back and forth for a while talking about things. And it seems she’d pretty much made up her mind. But now she’s confused. It’s like she forgets who I am sometimes, and how hard I work to try to see things through her perspective. I really do feel this is a cosmic connection—so many synchronicities with us in our relationship, and the things we want to work on about ourselves are the things that bother us in our relationship. It feels like an opportunity from the universe for us to grow together. So I suggested, since we basically had a month apart thanks to the two-week break and then her getting covid, that we just be together for a month, keep dating—to come back together in the way we hadn’t had a chance to yet. I told her I believe we just got over the biggest hump in our relationship and the best is right around the corner. At at the end of that 30-day period we’ll talk. If she still feels like breaking up then, we'll do it. She wasn’t sure about this idea either, so I told her she didn’t have to decide that day. I left. And a few hours later she texted me and told me “I’m feeling so many conflicting emotions right now. Thank you for giving me time to just process.”

Before we talked and read our letters to each other I asked the Ching about the future of my romantic relationship with her and received 14.4.6 > 11. Then last night, after we talked I asked the same question and received 34.1.6 > 50. I would love some help interpreting this.
 
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Liselle

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Is this the same woman from 2019? These two threads:
https://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/fri...reting-33-2-44-re-considering-break-up.27789/
https://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/fri...ncile-broken-relationship-58-2-17-help.27898/

I've tried to come up with something coherent for this one and haven't managed it. So maybe just some random impressions...
  • It's interesting you call this a "cosmic relationship" and then 11 is your relating hexagram in the first reading. An aspect of 11 is "Heaven and Earth communicate. Flow" (from the Image). But since it's the relating hexagram, I'm not sure if it's the background to the reading or a reflection of what you believe the relationship is. It could be either.
  • What is the future of your relationship? 14.4.6 to 11. 14.4 sounds like this is a relationship where you won't have much control. This could also be part of 11 - Flow isn't very controllable, either. Yi says this is "no mistake," though, or at least "no blame" which is another translation.
  • 14.6 seems pretty self-explanatory.
  • Trying to put the two together, you won't have control, but you'll have heaven's protection. Exactly what that might mean in real life, I don't know. Someone on the forum once asked if we should wonder why we need heaven's protection, when we get this line.
Then after you talked you asked the same question and got 34.1.6 to 50.

I figure the vessel (50) is probably your relationship. 34.1 might mean something like, "You just asked me this, and now you're asking again, and there's nothing much new to say."

As a direct answer it might mean how you say things without thinking. In that case, this isn't something you can control since it's your ADHD. It might mean it will keep being a problem.

That could easily tie in with 14.4 - both lines could be about impulsiveness (34.1) or being able to dominate things (14.4), and each line seems to say you won't be able to bring order or dominate. 14.4 says it's no mistake and there's no blame; 34.1 says it's a pitfall to try to "bring order."

I wonder if 34.6 is the crux of it. What will the future of your relationship be like?
'The ram butts the hedge.
Cannot pull back, cannot follow through,
No direction bears fruit.
Hardship, and hence good fortune.'

I think this fits how you described it. No matter what you do, you get into trouble. You can't help saying things, and she yells at you for it, and apologies aren't working right now, either.

  • "The ram butts the hedge" - your ADHD causes you to be impulsive
  • "Cannot pull back, cannot follow through" - no matter what you do, you're stuck in a hedge
  • "No direction bears fruit" - either there's no direction that will get you out of this, or the only thing that will help is to have no direction. Hilary explains that possibility like this: "If you do not choose a direction at all, and instead feel your way round each tangle in turn, you will eventually work your way free."
  • "Hardship, and hence good fortune" - my guess is that means the good fortune is learning to beware of hedges. Which might mean you'll get better at not saying the wrong thing, but might be that the relationship itself is a hedge.

That's all I can think of. I'm not completely sure what to make of it. The first reading might sound a lot better than the second - but that doesn't make much sense since not a lot changed in the short time between them as far as I can tell, and I think there are ways to see the first one that aren't such good news.

Outside of the reading, this doesn't sound like a situation I'd want to be in, where I'd never know what's safe to say to the other person and she reacts so harshly. But relationships have a lot of sides, and maybe love can be there even when other aspects are hard to deal with?

What I don't see is Yi saying anything will change, that she'll stop being like this. But 14.6 is there, so...
 

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I should be more clear about 14.4.

I know you're not trying to dominate the relationship. What I think it might mean is get control of your ADHD, which is something you "have" in a sense so maybe that's what 14 is.

14.4 might mean you can't dominate that. And it's not a mistake not to, and no blame - you have it, you can't make it go away, and if it's a requirement of the relationship, you already know how that's been.
 

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Thank you for the thoughtful, detailed response. It is not the same woman. I just seem to have sour luck in relationships. Or there is a lesson I have yet to learn to get me out of this cycle of poor matches. I wonder if there's a way to ask the Oracle for advice on that? It might be clearer with me about that than about specific relationships.

And you're right, this situation doesn't seem great. I have been feeling like I have to walk on eggshells around her. I do not want to live my life like that. And if the Oracle is indicating that won't likely change, that's something important to consider.
 

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