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hilary

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I’m sorry to go so quiet lately. I’ve been having wonderful experiences with Yi, and readings, and connections and shifts happening… and all to do with clients’ readings, so I can never share them here in public. (I’m very happy that I’m blessed with clients who share my joy in these things and laugh in recognition at synchronicities.)

Here’s one I can share, though…

This morning I picked up a book to read over breakfast before getting started on the first reading of the day, and opened it to this quotation from Rilke:

“I want to beg you… to be patient towards all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, that cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”

What do you suppose was the unchanging hexagram in the first reading I worked on? I’ll give you about one guess
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Books in a foreign tongue remind me of the "hidden lines" of 2.3.
 

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OK, I want one more guess. Hexagram 2 unchanging?
 

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Hilary, I'm giving myself a third chance - how about H17?
 

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Hmmm..."Don't seek answers," "Live the questions now."
Sounds like 4. Youthful Folly to me.
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4 it is - learning to love the questions and be in a little bit less of a hurry to escape into the answers. If there were a prize, Rosada would win it.

Interesting that different pairs of hexagram-glasses see different things in the quotation. I hadn't expected that.
 

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That was fun!
Send us another!

rosada

p.s.
That quote gives a great explanation as to WHY the IC does not give more than one answer when the young fool importunes: "You would not be able to live them."
 
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I don't have any more synchronicities on tap, but I'll be sure to keep you posted.

And yes - not able to live them, or just lacking the grounding to understand them. I'm reminded of a time when I was in my early teens, and quizzing a friend of the family who was an expert in electricity. I forget what I wanted to know - something that seemed to me like a basic question, but actually would probably have required a physics degree to follow the answer. I bugged him, I wanted him to just get on and tell me, and he was somewhat miffed.
 

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I guessed 4 too, as soon as I read this--but probably only because it is on my mind, as 4.5 was my weekly reading this week. Trying to see my week through 4.5 glasses has been kind of unexpectedly wonderful--having permission not to know, but to try anyway has been marvelous for me.
 

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Well this isn't quite as exact but maybe someone will see the connection..

I got a call from my girlfriend just as I was casting my I Ching for the day.
A squirrel had gotten in and she and the cat and the squirrel had spent the morning chasing around up and down from one end of the house to the other. She never did catch it (no change lines) but she's left the window open in her husband's study so she thinks it'll find it's way out.

Any guesses?
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Oh, wow, I wish that had been the answer, knot, that certainly fit my description...but..no..the answer I was thinking of has no change lines.
I'll add a few GENTLE hints..

This SMALL creature had a lot of SUCCESS ceaselessly running abroad throughout the whole house. He needed SOMEWHERE TO GO. Time was his instrument and he ultimately wore everybody out so they just left a window open in the husband's study so it would FURTHER him to SEE THE GREAT MAN and make his escape.

Try again?
 
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40. No great man, but the squirrel finds Release (Deliverance) through the study window.
 

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This GENTLE creature had SUCCESS cause he was SMALL.
He knew he needed TO HAVE SOMEWHERE TO GO.
It would FURTHER him TO SEE THE GREAT MAN's study window.

Thus THE SUPERIOR squirrel
SPREAD his search ABROAD and all over the house
AND CARRIEd OUT HIS overjumpings and UNDERTAKINGS.
 

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OK, with all these clues, 57. Maybe it was hiding under the bed. But I like 36 too with (1) the squirrel "does not eat for three days on his wanderings. But he has somewhere to go" and (4) "And leaves gate and courtyard". Also 35 with "Progress like a hamster".
 

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:rofl:

Hey these are fun!
And probably a good learning technique.
I certainly think I'll remember 57 and all the other possible answers just cause I was so involved.

So maybe we can make up some games - like it doesn't have to be total synchronicity, but post a real life situation that you feel really fit your toss and then we see if we can guess what the toss was...
I'll have to see if I can think of something..
r.
 

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51. The Arousing?

Uh, Shock brings success?
Shock comes - oh, oh!
Laughing words - ha, ha!
The shock terrifies for a hundred miles (that's some heavy duty popping)
And he does not let fall the sacrificial spoon and chalice ( hmm, can't enjoy popcorn with out a scoop of melted butter and a Coke?)

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Uh, Shock brings success?

Yes, Shock is in the hexagram. But try again. When popcorn pops, there is an ___________ in size. Think of the air (steam) exploding the popcorn. This hexagram also describes the popping of a plastron.
 

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