A Spanish-speaking penpal who knows I'm interested in the Yi sent me the following email: "Estoy triste y confundido. La vida me ha corrido mal desde hace algun tiempo y de verdad no entiendo que pasa, pero lo sospecho." Translation: He feels sad and confused. Things are going badly in his life and he doesn't understand why, but he has his suspicions that someone has put a curse on him through witchcraft. (This is a loose translation that summarizes several emails). I asked the Yi, "what does my penpal need to understand about his situation?" The response was 29 with no changing lines.

It seems clear that he is in a difficult situation and going through a period of crisis, as 29 suggests. I don't particularly believe in witchcraft, though for my penpal it is an accepted cultural explanation for his difficulties. Any advice on what else 29 might mean for him?

Thanks,

Tony

Tony_L said:

I asked the Yi, "what does my penpal need to understand about his situation?" The response was 29 with no changing lines...
It seems clear that he is in a difficult situation and going through a period of crisis, as 29 suggests...

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I also understand 29 as you do, Tony, it's a bad time for your friend.It is all somehow made worse by his continual turning of the events in his head. I also read 29 as a challenge to maintain to one's values, ethics under pressure. I think he should spend less time thinking that he is cursed and more time accepting the circumstance for what they are and working from there. It will not help him to assume he is doomed.

interesting i also recieved 29 for a friend recently
Its challenging time and he needs to know nothing lasts for ever good and bad
I have read also about voodoo curses and the thing that i understand they only tend to work if you belive it

Steve

29 doesn't mean crisis, and it doesn't mean a bad time, it means having to go through danger. As for your friend in Spain, that danger could be anything. The first thing that occurs to me is that the danger is psychological - your friend sounds like their mind is having problems functioning in a balanced, efficient way, and that's a dangerous state to be in, or to have to go through.

And witchcraft? Well, yeah, that would fit the picture. But you know, here's something that would just as easily fit the picture: your friend's mind is going through a dangerous time, and one of the dangers would be to identify the source of that danger OUTSIDE himself, in a spell a witch had cast, instead of correctly identifying the source of the problem within himself and his own mind.

Anyway, whether it's witch or inner mental dynamics, the approach suggested by the Yi is the same: heart quality helps get you through.