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Wanting

On the one hand…

…divination with Yi is not particularly about getting what you want. As a wise person pointed out recently in Reading Circle, it’s not life-as-catalogue:

‘I want that person/ this experience/ that possession, so how do I get it?’

We need to be at least somewhat aware of the possibility that maybe we can’t get whatever (or whoever) it is, as maybe this is not for us, or maybe it’s not the kind of thing that can be ‘got’ quite as we imagine.

Talking with Yi has not so much to do with what we want and how to get it, it’s more to do with being introduced – gently or otherwise – to what’s real, and how to inhabit that fluently.

And on the other hand…

divination with Yi is absolutely about knowing what you want. Not knowing what you want leads to asking questions about your career when you’re expiring from loneliness: distraction-questions, about anything other than the real issue. Or it leads to asking endless questions about what someone else feels and wants, because it doesn’t feel safe to feel or want anything yourself yet.

And all this leads to colossal muddles in interpreting answers from an Oracle that will insist on talking to your whole self, wants and all, when you’re doing your level best to stuff great swathes of that self out of sight.

(I don’t mean this to sound as though we’re asking stupid questions…

There was a time when I thought that asking about someone else’s wants because you never dared to contemplate what you yourself might want was quite stupid, until I noticed myself doing exactly that, and at length. So clearly it can’t be stupid.)

The thing is, knowing what you want is not easy. Life is altogether smoother (not to mention flatter) if we stay on a nice even emotional keel and never find out. It’s just that the more I see, the more it seems that being in touch with what you want – ‘waking up the inner Wanter,’ as I think Pamela put it on her last call – is pretty much essential to divination.

So… in brief, Pamela Moss has another free call coming up. This one is specifically about ‘How to get clear about what matters most’ and has a lot to do with what you truly want. The call’s on Wednesday 26th at 12 noon Eastern time, which is 5pm for me here in the UK.  Have a look at this list to find your local time for the call and then by all means sign up for it. As before, there’ll be a recording (to be released after the call is replayed on Saturday). Pamela can be relied on to provide some solid, useable ideas that make this absolutely worth your time.

3 responses to Wanting

  1. I love your interpretation. It dovetails very neatly with a reading I just did–I tend to work on projects, gathering tools, materials, etc. I start them, and them just leave them. I don’t know what it is–am I afraid it won’t turn out like I want? Is the thrill of acquisition (silks, wood, woodcarving tools, embroidery threads, etc.) more exciting than the “thrill” of doing the hard work to finish the project?

    I asked: what is the best way to get these projects done? The Yi answers 56, no changing lines. After the initial laugh about me being a true wanderer (going from project to project), I fixed on the “if the traveler be firm and correct as he ought to be, there will be good fortune”. However, I also thought, maybe it’s not such a bad idea to be a wanderer, but I do have to earn my keep as I go from place to place, and these projects are a good way to pick up a little pocket money, and acquire some skills as I go along.

    I was just amazed, though, that the first thing I saw when I got to your site was this teaching–it describes the conundrum so neatly, and your interpretation sheds such clear light on how to work through the problem. Thanks once again for sharing your thoughts.

  2. I neglected to click on the button about being informed if there is a reply. I know you don’t have time to answer each and every little comment, but should you answer this one, I’m making sure that I know it by writing another paragraph, and THIS time clicking that button:-)

  3. Hi Nancy!

    Yes – constancy brings good fortune for travellers. The interesting question there is what you’re being constant to. (Or what you’re being firm and correct in – different translation.) Obviously not the place where you’re stopped just for now, as travellers move on. Maybe to where you’re going, or how you’re going there…? And we’re back to that question of what you might actually want from the process. (Which is also something you can ask Yi, btw.)

    Anyway, it seems to me it might not be not such a bad thing not to complete a project if you’ve already travelled past it.

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