47.3 and health

[persephone]

Hi all! Since childhood I've been having problems with my health. I've asked the Yi: what is wrong with my body? I received 47.3 I find it hard to relate this hex to my question. My experience with this hex was that it's usually quite literal. What I get is that something might be blocked by bad things but that's about it. Any more suggestions would be very welcome!

 

[dancing white ferret]

Do you push yourself, or maybe unwittingly push some aspect of your health to the breaking point. 47 Exhaustion to 28 Great Exceeding reads like that to me. Also, 47 suggests you may be deficient in something... could it be as simple as being really dehydrated. That can actually aggravate health problems... Well, the imagery of 47 is a lake over water, the image of a dried up lake. So, that could imply some kind of deficiency. I'm not so sure what to make of the line here, but the guy comes home and there is no partner there. Sounds like whatever your deficient in leaves this guy hanging. Have you ever had extensive blood work done. If that is something possible for you I would. Could it be B12 or something related to anemia? The line reads "tied to stone"... Gallstones... I dunno, didn't give us much detail to go on here, but this is a vague impression of what you're reading means to me. What kinds of symptoms do you get?

 

[pocossin]

What is wrong with my body?
47.3 > 28

Could it be that you are oppressing your body by poor dietary habits? "He enters his house and does not see his wife." House correlate with body, and in traditional societies, the wife is the preparer of food.

 

[dancing white ferret]

I agree with Pocossin... That is also how I am reading this. House as body. Very typical symbolism for body in dream interpretation, so why not in the Yi? And good point, Pocossin! The lady of the house is the preparer of meals typically. Sounds like you are running on empty, Persephone...

 

[chingching]

28 jumps out at me as an 'it's time' context, it's time for you to get a hold on this, and you can do it. Often I have found that people with on going health issues from childhood end up needing to discover the solution to their health themselves. Certainly people like Joe Pilates and Frederick Alexander (amongst others) did just that and created movement systems as a result. Not to say health professionals wont help, but there is always something that the person suffering has themselves, a key within, and its the only one to fit the lock. When I taught Pilates I had some clients who turned themselves around completely, and at the end of that journey it was obvious that I as the instructor really had very little to do with their success, they themselves had figured something out.

both 47 and 28 have that sense of a solo mission. 47 says that this state for great people is auspicious, there is something there in that enclosed garden only you have access to.

There is no use looking outside these walls for the answer and I think 47.3 echoes that, as well as a sense of whatever you have been doing or taking to remedy your health is not the right thing for you. Wilhelm's translation says the person is oppressed by something that shouldn't oppress them at line 3, and I think this is where you can embody the message of 28, to stand alone unconcerned.

in Wilhelms the commentaries he has an appended judgement for 47:

Opression is the test of character. Opression leads to perplexity one learns to lessen one's rancor.

I dont know know if you feel bitter or not but certainly from personal experience I would say that's fairly accurate that a 47 situation gives you the space to transform some of the vinegar coursing through one's veins. But I just added that there in reference to the commentary, not saying that comes across form your post at all. Freedom is found in confinement. Like Sparhawk's card of 47.

What is wrong with your body? yi points to stress, exhaustion being imprisoned and being at an end point with it. If you are into astrology I would look at which one of your houses the retrograde mars is in at the moment, because its retrograding in virgo the sign that rules health, daily routine, work, pets and service. And it goes direct on the 13th so you should feel the energy shift for you.

(it's not to say that you can't find someone who can put you on the right road, or help with your healing, I would definitely look for that too, but ultimately the answer is within.)

Sorry to hear you've had this problem for so long, that would be frustrating.

 

[persephone]

Wow, thank you all so much! And how right you all are! I am right this moment in the middle of having a complete check-up with bloodworks and all.
My problem does have to do with my digestive system: I have ulcers and problems in my bowels so many times I cannot take in any of the nutrients from my food. It makes me feel listless and tired a lot. What's causing this I do not know. I'm getting sicker each year.
Thank you Chingching for your post. I wish I could do astrology but I have no experience with it. Your 'it's time' comment rings so very true. With these tests I will come a lot closer to what is causing this lifelong problem. The 'Enclosed garden' you mentioned it seems to refer to my intestines where both good and bad bacteria can grow. What a wonderful poetic way to refer to that.

 

[pocossin]

My problem does have to do with my digestive system: I have ulcers and problems in my bowels so many times I cannot take in any of the nutrients from my food. It makes me feel listless and tired a lot. What's causing this I do not know. I'm getting sicker each year.

Have you tried going off gluten?

 

[Trojina]

Hi all! Since childhood I've been having problems with my health. I've asked the Yi: what is wrong with my body? I received 47.3 I find it hard to relate this hex to my question. My experience with this hex was that it's usually quite literal. What I get is that something might be blocked by bad things but that's about it. Any more suggestions would be very welcome!

I think you need to look at this far more broadly than dietary concerns....they may play a part but think deeply about everything the Yi is saying in line 47.3. It describes someone who is leaning on wholly untenable supports so i'd say there is quite likley an emotional aspect here where perhaps you have been looking to people, structures, situations that really do not give you what you look to them for. So the answer there would be to realise that and move on ! (hex 28)

So I think it would be useful to really try to have an honest conversaton with yourself about the things in your life that you look to for support....somewhere there there is something that is more detrimental than helpful. Diet is only one thing, a physical thing that supports life....but what about the even more important supports, emotional sustenance. A child may be ill fed but if she is loved she is still alot happier and healthier than a perfectly nutritonally nourished child who is ignored or abandoned on an emotional, feeling level.

You say this has been going on for years so it could be some really old relationships or connections that are really no good for you. 28 is a time to go it alone...and in 47.3 one is better to go it alone, to look for real adequate support or take good care of oneself rather than rely on rocks and thistles that really offer nothing. Theres a real sense of abandonment in this line...the man comes home to seek comfort but his wife is not there. So a wife gives food but also love and care and I'm wondering if these may also be components in the situation you need to look at. Don't keep going to things or people...or food that doesn't fulfil the needs you think they do

Personally I think there is a great element of self deception in this line....one actually believes one has what one needs here....the man thinks he will find his wife at home....but she isn't. So this calls for some real self questioning...its an answer that always makes me step back and question my beliefs about how I'm seeking care or support etc.


47 is a constraining situation and people blossom with care. So with no care how can you blossom and thrive and be well ? If you lean on a thorn for support you only get pain. You need somewhere much better to lean, to rest your needs, so you can blossom, be yourself, be free of constriction. Look around and see if someone close had laid down heavy conditions of care for you...ie 'I will love you if you are like this' etc etc that can be like thorns to lean on emotionally.


I don't think you will necessarily find your answer laid out for you here on this forum....I think you will have to spend some time thinking without jumping too soon to any conclusions as to what exactly these thorns you currently lean on , and have leaned on, symbolise.


ETA I didn't clarify that I'm thinking stomach problems are very often to do with emotional upsets etc. That is if no physical cause can be found one may at least need to consider there is an emotional factor that is not being expressed or is being denied

 

[persephone]

Trojan without saying too much about my situation I want you to know some of what you said made me think in a completely different area. As a baby I've suffered hunger and neglect in the first few months of my life. I was given foods that weren't right for a newborn baby and I always believed that to be the cause for some of my problems. I think the 'relying on food' and the comfort it brings must be the stones and thistles. I really do need to do this alone now. I shouldn't rely on food to comfort me as it would have done when I was a baby. I'm now mature and I should give up the fake comfort a full stomach gives me.

@pocossin gluten is one of the foods I'm being tested on, as well as lactose.

Thank you all so much again.

 

[persephone]

21.3.4

No real update yet. Still waiting for test results. I'm on a strict non-dairy and non-wheat diet at the moment. It is pretty hard sometimes. Food is such a big sociable event in every day life. It makes me quite sad sometimes to miss out on what I always considered to be 'normal' food (I miss pizza, and pasta and deserts!).

I asked what caused this sudden problem. (Little background info: I've always had problems but a while ago I went out to diner, got back sick and that seemed to have snowballed into the massive problems that I have right now where everything I eat seems to cause toxic reactions in my body). Yi said 21.3.4

I was pretty amazed how accurate that is but have trouble understanding the relating hex 22. I think I'm missing something. I would love to hear your thoughts on this. :bows: