Clarity,
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Hi everyone,
I've never been very good at love. Stuff like 'playing hard to get' or playing it cool, treat them 'mean' keep em keen', etc. Now I know a lot of that is exaggerated, and I'm too nice to treat anyone mean... but am I being 'too nice' - naive? I know in the past I've tended to be more interested in those who give less... I think there are times when I should have held back - I'm too bold with those I'm interested in sometimes. I still don't seem to be getting it (though am caring less when people disappoint me), can't keep those I like interested for long anyway... scare 'em off. Either that or they just haven't been the right 'ones'...
I asked yi about someone who I sense is backing off though up till know they've been v friendly. However all via email (My life is lived virtually atm, not least my 'love life' if you can call it that). I might be going to the place where he lives soon so thought I'd suggest meeting up. However I feel he has cooled off and sure enough yi answered:
52. Standstill. Consolidating what has come before and bringing it to a stop. (well we don't live near each other, haven't seen him in a long time, but we've sent a lot of emails)
I then asked (though inside knew that it didn't matter what yi said because I intend to meet him anyway) to comment on still asking him to meet up anyway:
4.2,5,6 > 8
I took hex 4 to mean a) unecessary Q b) you can't plan everything out/know in advance, just gotta live and learn it, 8: seek friendship.
So I'm going to do that regardless of whether he 'fancies' me or not... which I think not. Think I come across as over-friendly which maybe guys find boring, or over-enthusiastic/predictable... too easy... etc.
I then asked if someone I'm not speaking to (the guy I'm estranged from mentioned a lot here) thinks of me:
42.1,3,5 > 52
52 again! Not sure whether to take the positive lines from 42 as meaning much, or reading the answer as a sentence? ie more energy into standing still; not being affected externally, bringing movement to an end, a strong mountain, unmovable.
As I received 52 twice I asked (to ascertain whether 'stilling' equated to 'no love')
'What does 52 equate to re. relationships?'
4.3,5 > 57
4.3 makes me worry... I think I have in the past too eagerly 'thrown myself' at people... but at the same time, at the time I see it as just being friendly, acting naturally... although with the guy I'm now estranged from, I did rely a lot on him, and possibly idealise him...
So my main Q is in this thread: Should I be playing a game? Give more respect to the idea of female 'tactics' to keep men interested? That sounds quite base though... but I'm really starting to think there's something in it.... I seem to put people off! Especially the ones I'm interested in...
I then asked, Is it my eagerness that switches them off?
47.1,6 > 10
47 could suggest that my inital approach to having a relationship is wrong... I become too dependant on external validation etc... which stops me from acting sensibly somehow? Whatever that is... I'm really not sure whether I exhaust situations by putting too much into them?? Or whether it's my outlook that sabotages my relationships... and hex 10 is about proper conduct. Apparently it's about a young girl treading carefully after a tiger, then getting a bit over confident or needy, and through impudence, getting herself bitten...
But how to be in the driver's seat? I always bat balls away from my court... never the tiger... well most of the time... then there's that problem when you don't like the one that likes you (happens less often though).
Any tips and/or interpretations here would be very much appreciated!
And happy new year all
:bows:
Hi everyone,
I then asked, Is it my eagerness that switches them off?
47.1,6 > 10
47 could suggest that my inital approach to having a relationship is wrong... I become too dependant on external validation etc... which stops me from acting sensibly somehow? Whatever that is... I'm really not sure whether I exhaust situations by putting too much into them?? Or whether it's my outlook that sabotages my relationships... and hex 10 is about proper conduct. Apparently it's about a young girl treading carefully after a tiger, then getting a bit over confident or needy, and through impudence, getting herself bitten...
But how to be in the driver's seat? I always bat balls away from my court... never the tiger... well most of the time... then there's that problem when you don't like the one that likes you (happens less often though).
Any tips and/or interpretations here would be very much appreciated!
And happy new year all
:bows:
There was an interesting little bit about that once in the David Carradine series Kung Fu where the Master tells young Caine that if he has a need just recognize it but do not struggle for it, and it will come in a natural way.
First of all, some games do work well for the average person. But they don't work with people who are truly mature. They can see right through them. Second, often people are not consciously aware of playing games, but they act as if they are out of fear of being hurt... I think that men tend to do that often to make sure the woman thinks of them as being high enough status that they are a catch. It seems to work on the average woman, but I would not suggest it for a woman truly of class, because it would just be seen as a put down. I would not recommend women be mean to men. It doesn't work.
The next thing I can only say how I personally feel about it. I have no idea how other men feel. I personally do not like to feel a woman is playing hard to get. It puts a man in a tight spot due to all the attention these days on stalking laws etc.
There was an interesting little bit about that once in the David Carradine series Kung Fu where the Master tells young Caine that if he has a need just recognize it but do not struggle for it, and it will come in a natural way.
Here is the other thing too. When we experience rejection on too regular a basis when we are young, we grow to expect it, and then experience it even more which goes even further to reinforce the feeling that something is wrong. That is when we really truly have to let it go.
Gene
But the reading that tickled my fancy here is the 47.1.6>10. I love this as an answer to your question. This is surely describing being worried to death (47) about putting a foot wrong (10) 'Dare I' says 47.6 'even trust myself to put one foot in front of the other ?!'...with 47.1 carping on in the background 'whatever you do it'll turn out crap'. So theres risk taking and watching ones conduct in hex 10, this is what your question is really addressing...and 47.1.6 how you feel about these risks.
...I think 47.1.6 just shows you being concerned and worried about how you proceed, the good news being 47.6 clearly states there is far far less hindering you than you believe...indeed the only thing thing hindering you could be what you believe. These vines creeping round you in 47.6 aren't really even holding you.
Maybe you don't sabotage relationships maybe you have no need to blame yourself for not yet having found a fulfilling relationship ? What if you aren't doing anything wrong ? What if these beliefs that you are doing something wrong so can't get the love you need are those creeping vines that really have no substance anyway.
That is so true. Just a while ago, I had absolutely no hobby, zilch (unless you call playing video games a hobby). So there I was thinking, like "sh1t, I need to get a real hobby, but I haven't the dar*est clue what?"
A few days later, providence answered my call. I happened to tag along with my family on shopping and came across a $40 mini-indoor helicopter that flies.
Didn't actually look for my new hobby, but rather it *found* me.
[I had been very keen on RC helicopters years ago (never actually owned one b/c the outdoor ones r so expensive, like upwards of $1K), but had forgotten about them... Didn't even know that indoor ones existed, and for so cheap...]
Hi Trojan!
I was told about a little girl in hex 10 by Elias (hope he doesn't mind me sharing what he said):
I just finally got the hang of H10, via Cleary's trans of The Taoist I Ching -- such a sweet picture of the youngest daughter, who can get away with anything... including stepping on the tiger's tale.. Then on the third line, the little girl acts with impudence, and gets bitten.
Thanks again
Clarity,
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