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Indeed. I call it sun spots,
So my question is this: Are all responses relevant and my perception that they are not simply my inability to interpret them? Or are some responses purposely irrelevant and should be ignored?
Yes and no.
If a response just doesn't seem to connect with anything that is presently occupying your mind, take a break. Record the reading along with a few notes about your thoughts and set it aside. Later, (perhaps much later) if you continue to work with the Yi something will eventually resonate. I think that disregarding a response is not a good way to learn about the oracle.
This is a lot like my experience. After you get to know the Yi a bit, you also get to know your own feelings better. It taught me to recognize if I connect, and that is not only connect to Yi, but just as well connect to my Self. One pulls the other along, or maybe connecting to myself is the base of understanding.... sometimes i think there can be quite long periods of not connecting with Yi at all. I think part of learning about the Yi is recognising these times clearly. Its not simply a cognitive working out process, you receive your answer on a gut level too..no point doing mental gymnastics over the answer when you know you're not actually connecting in the first place.
If its a question of not 'getting' the answer immediately that again feels different to not connecting..i think if people use the Yi alot over time they get to know how their individual relationship with it feels.
But for me not 'getting' it is directly related to not connecting. And getting to connecting.
If the oracle is not answering you, and there certainly are times it doesn't I think, then it is very good to be aware of this rather than plough on inventing ways to make the answer fit.
I think its something indefinable, like just being out of synch, not on same frequency.., erm just not your way at that time.
It just occurs to me that the two times i can remember this happening, my mind was made up ahead of time and what I wanted fro the I Ching was confirmation, not advice. I had decided on a course of action, and I threw the i Ching hoping it would say I'm doing the right thing. If it had said the opposite, i would have been unhappy but i would probably have ignored it. So i think that might explain it.
I would suggest you consider such a "non-answer" to be a refusal to play along with you.
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