An I Ching answer to a Reiki question

[daisy]

My question was "With respect, what is to be known about the cause of my current short temper?"

I've been like a stroppy teenager since I took my reiki master ship on Beltane - May 1st. I'm responding to things on an egotistic level, behaving just the way I did when I was a teenager (and believe me it wasn't that much fun the first time around, 30 years ago!)

I got 5 with no changes. Nourishment. It seemed to be about being happy, not trying to rush things (I have a stubbornly blocked third eye chakra and am "blind"), and waiting for the rain to fall....

Any guidance on any aspect of this much appreicated. I'm sure I'm driving those around me nuts. I know I'm driving myself nuts, and i just seem to be going round in circles......

 

[ewald]

5. Waiting - Perhaps your short temper is some way of not being patient, not taking the time necessary to wait?


Ewald

 

[bruce]

Hi Daisy,

I wouldn?t underestimate the value of disturbed temperament. Very often there is an underlying cause that needs to be reckoned with, but not necessarily neutralized or extinguished until the underlying cause has been identified and resolved. Sometimes we have to wait for things to surface before we can cross over to the other side. Ya know, like being patient with ourselves?

 

[hilary]

5 also has to do with Needing something you're not getting - hence the requirement that you wait and prepare the ground. The Sequence from Hexagram 4 says that 'things newly born need to be fostered'. So if some new part of you has been born, perhaps now you're looking for nourishment that can't be found in your current circumstances.

You could also see Waiting as an alternative stance to Arguing, which is the paired hexagram.