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Hi Arabella
I think "improving one's life," as an endeavor, is extremely large in scope. I think that's why Yi responded with an unchanging hexagram which is sometimes called Sovereignty.
Perhaps the meaning is that it's all up to you, according to what kinds of improvements you were thinking of.
I've enquired of the Yi -- What can I do to improve my life?
The casting: Hexgram 14 unchanging, which would indicate to me that there is enormous potential I'm not seeing; something signfiicant I'm not using or tuned into.
I propose that we make this open to anything anybody would like to offer from either of two prevalent points of view on Shared Readings:
1. Simply based on knowledge of the Yi Ching as it is written OR
2. Based on all of our acquaintance, prior postings I've made, and anything you know about the details of my situation.
When answering, would you please say which approach you are using -- the first or the second? I think the difference of interpretation might be instructive toward the future, a delineation of what we take entirely from the Yi and what we infer because we know somebody and we are doing our best to be helpful.
This is something of a follow-on from a thread just posted by Precision Grace where this happened more or less spontaneously and got tangled a bit. I'm hoping we can clarify where readings separate between pure Yi and more personal. Arabella
I'd see it as nice answer...to use what you have for you have much and to appreciate what you have for you have much. It is an answer of fullness and possession, you are in possession...know that and
Now if someone comes along and says this 'qualifies' you to have a relationship with a man or this is all about your relationship with a man or that you need a man to improve your life... I will ........writhe about in disbelief, anguish and laughter.
I mean not that a man never improved a womans life.....lord knows they are very handy around the house
You don't need nothing from nobody, pardon the grammar, you Have. 14 is Big Having which includes all kinds of things...everything a soul can hold, all manner of riches to share with and receive from. So if anything its advice to improve your life by being really aware of how rich you are and sharing that...and being open to receive what is offered you also
what a great answer. I think its very general...and quite a spiritual answer. Celebrate all you have in all areas of your life
I think with this particular answer it would be quite hard to take into account your previous posts...because its quite a definate, general sort of answer. Knowing something of you cannot help but influence what I write of course...like as I write about how wealthy you are I'm aware you have had money problems so wealth can be a hard word to use....and I know you had/have interest in a man...but still you have this interest whilst already being full and complete yourself.
I don't think theres a problem with taking peoples previous posts into account...they are a whole person..we do see them in context....but with PGs thread I was pretty lost about all the man advice. I ended up thinking it sounded like people thought she should just stick her hand out of the front door and pull in the nearest passing stranger...but maybe we said enough about that...mileage variability taken into account
I think its been said gratitude is a big part of 14. Gratitude seems to double wealth immediately....even if you are having a bad day you can still enjoy the coffee in your hand....and at that moment you have all you need (if you like coffee) I think its a trick old people master better than young ones . We only ever have the moment and if we have all we need in that moment we are rich....
"Cultivating gratitude" came immediately to mind. Then I saw Trojan's post.
Appreciation is another good term. I once made an exercise of looking at all the major Economics words and tried to find meanings for them that didn't cost anything.
It was a value-able exercise with some interest-ing and reward-ing insights.
Look at all you possess, if you want it.
"What can I do to improve my life?"
14 Unchanging - "Possession In Great Measure"
You are on the correct path. Be careful to manage your resources well, and do not become arrogant over the many things you have. Others admire and respect you and you must be an example and use your power and possessions to further the common good.
Derived from commentaries - Wilhelm/Legge/iChing+
By taking your question and what the Yi advises, I would answer your question by implication, "You will your improve your own life by using your power and influence to further the interests of others, by promoting "the common good" (only good and not evil.)" Are you in publishing, government, do you have an oversight function socially?
See what I just wrote to Bradford in response to the question you've posed. I'm trying now to LIQUIDATE what I own to continue spending my time on the service project that is underway. As I'm more involved in this activity and see the VALUE in it for the future I've lost INTEREST in a lot of the rest of what's supposedly VALUE-ABLE to humanity. The real WEALTH is in our connection with each other and what we have to show children about community-building that will survive the coming upheavals -- economic and every other type. I've learned that where children today are seen as self-centred and selfish, they have only to be shown where their effort is critical in the community and they are contributors and find their own power. They are quite amazing. Our little group is part of an international community service project that is proving this true in every part of the globe.
Do you think that hexagram 14 makes reference to any particular area of life?
I've enquired of the Yi -- What can I do to improve my life?
The casting: Hexgram 14 unchanging, which would indicate to me that there is enormous potential I'm not seeing; something signfiicant I'm not using or tuned into.
I propose that we make this open to anything anybody would like to offer from either of two prevalent points of view on Shared Readings:
1. Simply based on knowledge of the Yi Ching as it is written OR
2. Based on all of our acquaintance, prior postings I've made, and anything you know about the details of my situation.
When answering, would you please say which approach you are using -- the first or the second? I think the difference of interpretation might be instructive toward the future, a delineation of what we take entirely from the Yi and what we infer because we know somebody and we are doing our best to be helpful.
This is something of a follow-on from a thread just posted by Precision Grace where this happened more or less spontaneously and got tangled a bit. I'm hoping we can clarify where readings separate between pure Yi and more personal. Arabella
Sorry -- I posted this after quite a few other posts had intervened ...
Maybe you have accumulated a body of knowledge of how to get by in these uncertain times and could help others.
One way you could help others is by reassuring those in conditions of low finances that our spirits are more important than our bank balances, much though most of us want to have a sweet cushion to fall back on. But you seem to sleep at night and triumph over every financial adversity in a way that makes other people respect you a lot, Arabella.
Hilary once posted that she thought hex 14 was sometimes referring to the health of the physical body. I tend to think of it as being a body of knowledge; for example, how to use the Bach Flower Remedies to re-balance the emotions. Or even how to use knowledgeable people who are really experts or masters at what they do, like going to a chiropractor who really knows how to do adjustments that hold. So, I tend to think of the healing arts when I think of hexagram 14, not "wealth management."
Using Bradford's idea of substituting no-cost alternatives for money terminology, the "basis" underneath the great possession of hex 14 is indeed gratitude and appreciation, and I'd like to add, looking on things with a certain equanimity that comes I guess from faith that each time a particular phase of the story ends, it will end well and naturally transform into a bright beginning.
So, yes, I am going more by my general understanding of hex 14 -- although knowing your life story makes this a deeper discussion.
Especially when my activities are all self-driven since I have no work, I have to push hard to discipline myself and not sit about the place. Maybe it is a worthwhile thought to do some sort of "survival" blog for people in my position. Great idea in fact!
And if you follow the process of examining your life honestly, you will find that ego is the first thing to dismiss -- and the last.
There can be a lot of sadness creeping about the place when one has no work. The ego may interpret this as having failed. People who retire go through the same thing. When time opens up like that, it becomes more likely that no tasks will get done, even though there are always things to do.
Yes, that pesky ego always comes in loud and clear.
It seems to me you have begun something like the life of a minister to your flock. Even the change in your avatar shows a seriousness of purpose that was not there before. Though you have your work cut out for you, your responsibilities are rather amorphous. Your activities are not governed by anyone other than yourself. This is the sovereign position in which you find yourself with respect to your inquiry.
Maybe the answer is that you improve your life when you get busy improving the lives of others -- and keep yourself healthy enough to keep doing that.
Have you thought of founding a nonprofit organization, just to get the benefits of the structure of that? Then you wouldn't need to do everything alone. But you might have a Board of Directors breathing down your neck!
I don't know what is best, but it would be nice if you could receive a formal grant to do the valuable work you are doing as a volunteer.
-- we still come out with a powerful product that is very meaningful to the querent.
One thing to say -- I believe we've done this casting more or less entirely on a Premise 1 basis [of the two that I suggested we try] and it has brought to mind the features of life I most needed to notice. Nobody has speculated on what it means in the context of my life and prior readings -- but the interpretation is still quite detailed and limited more by the casting having been an unchanging one rather than by lack of personal discussion. I suppose both ways of interpreting a reading are valid, but as I think of it, we can do very well without knowing the details of someone else's situation -- we still come out with a powerful product that is very meaningful to the querent.
People can call me an I Ching interpreter or anything they want to call me, since I can't prevent them anyway from saying whatever they want to say.
I thought I was here to interpret the I Ching ... Now Trojan you have me wondering why I am here, if not to interpret the I Ching. You see, there are people who come here saying they are desperate or they just don't know, can we help them? They have thrown the coins and have written what they received. But the I Ching does not interpret itself and it's fully of scary language from a different time and place. Someone has to say what the reading means.
Isn't that why I come here: Out of my experience, to help others with the meanings of their readings?
I can see how 14 would be saying - you already have what you need.
I have a belief that what i need is available to me - i am not seeing
it - thats why i ask for another perspective or what am i blind to that
it would benefit me to see - with 14 and you are skint!!!! that comes
from experience
my son is big but he is also innocent and not involved in this at all -
he is an achilles heel anyone can threaten what you love most whether
its 4/24 /44 or 84
my awareness of the Yi is growing by looking at more angles.
I'd never claim to be giving anyone a reading here...
one would generally get paid for...it carries responsibility IMO.
do we ever really know what another person's answer means ? I don't think so....
Clarity,
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