Bus journey

[butterfly spider]

I do a certain bus ride - about 6.00pm going to a place in the West Country with very high energy levels (almost invasive)

I have done this journey 3 times for the past 3 weeks and have had such wildly differing experiences that I feel the need to impart...

Journey 1. - no dog with me. I was well dressed (from work) very stressed - all the travellers on the bus heads down - no connection so much so that I felt as if they were all zombies going to the graveyard. Very quiet hushed almost eery .

Journey 2. - no dog started talking at bus stop with a woman who told her life history in 2 minutes - told me that I was too old to do teaching and should find a nice man for you know what and that I should do some pole dancing. - another lady from the NE visiting her son - a lovely lady. Another lady - carrying 3 tatty plastic bags rather smelly and in need of food. The First Lady gave her a pack of biccies. Always carry them she said. We all chatted and piled on the bus - like travellers in the past. Sharing sandwiches and biccies and telling out life stories. It was about an hour before they got off each waving as they left at their various stops. It felt like being at school again. The young girl next to me said that she wishes she had such lovely friends - just met them I said

Young girl and I chatted - she gave me something for my daughter on line - to help her on her journey in life. I emailed her about 5 rythmns dance -

Journey 3 - travelling with dog - ghastly driver. Girl waiting by bus stop crying. Broken wrist. Boyfriend - lady hit by bike. Dog sick on bus Asked woman to move shopping for old lady needing seat - f... Off she said. Man with mobile phone told me to be quiet and that He had a dog allergy. Asked bus driver to remove me from bus dog was sick again ..
Phone call that my son might be suspended over snapchat


How can these journeys differ so much. Is it my state if mind or the people onthe bus

 

[butterfly spider]

40.3to 32
Rising in a carriage with affliction attracts bandits ...

Xx

 

[Tim K]

My daily reading is 40.2.3.5 → 31.
I understood 40.2 and almost got what 40.5 was about, but 40.3 baffled me.
And now here I see your post

I've thought about it for 30 minutes, and I think I got it.

40.3 Porter with his burden riding in a carriage.
This shows a man who behaves inadequate to current situation. He is stuck in his 'old' mode.
Inflexibility (as I write this I notice that 40.3 → 32, that only confirms my idea).
When one's work carrying things for others is done, and he gets into his carriage to get home or some evening party he ought to change his clothes! 40 is about loosing bonds (opposite to 37).
Change your mindset and approach each situation (ooh I felt goosies) with fresh outlook.


About your story: You've got neutral, positive and let's say uncomfortable flavours of bus rides.
Oh well, that's the beauty of life. Each moment is unique. Don't get entangled to any one of them.

Oh I remembered a cool line, 10.6 → 58 (Encouraging), Richmond:
Watch your conduct and be alert to signs and great good fortune will follow.

- Inner change is not yet manifesting in this tao, so it is about being with quietness inside and activity outside. In this moving line we accept learning this by a balance of witnessing with participation which provides a very effective living technique.
The balance is dynamic, it is constantly modified and never made into rules to live by. This becomes the art of riding life, responding to its every movement yet never falling into the role of mastering it.

- Riding life, never adrift and never entangled is the greatest good fortune.

5 minutes later: read Bradford's comment - my thoughts exactly!
As it often happens I get full answer only when I've thought of it myself

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Another aspect of this can be: you are being carried (by life), so why are you trying to carry something by yourself?
Relax, don't take it on yourself, thinking about that your mind caused this and that
However if you get the same type of rides more than two times in a row - that would be a sign to ponder.

 

[Trojina]

Journey 1. - no dog well dressed (from work) very stressed - all the travellers on the bus heads down - no connection so much so that I felt as if they were all zombies going to the graveyard. Very quiet hushed almost eery .

Eh ? I'm lost. How do you mean 'no dog well dressed' ? what do you mean ?

Journey 2. - no dog started talking at bus stop with a woman who told her life history in 2 minutes - told me that I was too old to so teaching and should find a nice man for you know what and that I should do some pole dancing. -

You mean literally you had no dog ?





I have no idea what you mean. 'no dog started talking' ????

 

[Tim K]

Butterfly spider posts often contain many mistypes. I believe she uses auto-correction on the tablet/smartphone.

No dog (with me), Well dressed(came from work), very stressed.

Journey 2, no dog (with me), started talking ...

Then on 3rd ride she had a dog but it felt sick on a bus, that's what I gathered.

 

[Trojina]

Yes but I didn't even know she had a dog so why would she start with 'no dog well dressed'. I mean the first thing that registered on my mind's eye was a dog in high heels and a suit waiting for a bus. I mean why is the dog relevant ?


[video=youtube;EG7swtOfeUo]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=EG7swtOfeUo#t=6[/video]


Yes I think she writes her posts on her phone. You can always tell when people write posts on a phone. I can't do it except for one liners.

 

[Tim K]

Hilarious clip ))

 

[Trojina]

Come to think of it I think the clip of the dog illustrates 40.3 quite well. In 40.3 one's outer appearance is giving such mixed messages even to one's own self that it's all quite confusing and when one looks confused robbers are more likely to take advantage.

I don't know how to apply that to the question though which was

How can these journeys differ so much. Is it my state if mind or the people onthe bus

I wonder if 40.3 applies to the actual question. That is you are caught between thinking these are just random people on the bus versus an idea you somehow created the experience with them. The whole 'you create your own reality' thing can at times get confusing. Hence I suggest you just take it as part of everyday life and don't burden yourself with ideas that you were somehow responsible for these people being there on those days ?

Days are weird things. Different things keep happening in em I now notice on third example dog was with you, not well.

 

[butterfly spider]

Ashteroid you are right about the dog - and yes she was sick on the bus ...interesting that the lady who wouldn't move her bags offered a tissue to clean up the dog sick. ..

I think we just get good days and bad -and it is best to hold onto the good days. I wasn't expecting answers just an overall question.

It makes one think about interactions and in the past week have noticed people in shops or markets who have either lost their money or left their purse behind (an elderly lady who had walked some way to the market got her veg and couldn't pay). Not a great deal £3 but yesterday I had been paid and gave the veg man the money. Another time a younger man needed 52p in the Coop - he was finding it hard - I gave it to him. Was it that I was more aware of people yesterday or was it just that they just happened to be standing next to me.

Sorry about typos - it looks OK and then when it sends sometimes goes awry
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[Trojina]

Sometimes days have patterns so maybe you could do daily readings or weekly readings. Events do seem to be linked. Here is one of mine I had cause to think about last year for example.

I was in a charity shop and wanted to buy a bracelet. I thought it was over priced, said so and reluctantly they knocked it down by I think £1. So I bought it at the cheaper price I'd haggled over.

The next day I was in another charity shop where I saw a young woman breaking her heart she could not buy a much more formal kind of bracelet in a box. She wanted it very much but was £1 short of the money she needed. They said they could not hold it for her for very long. I gave her the £1 so she could buy it. It was clearly important to her

Of course this didn't seem random to me. The £1 that had seemed so much to me the day before that I had refused to give was willingly 'taken' from me the next day over the same object, a bracelet !

What did I think this was saying to me ? I don't know, I think the universe was having a joke with me. I think I shouldn't really have refused to pay the full price on the first bracelet, maybe it was a bit mean and so things were evened out the next day when that £1 I'd saved was taken from me to pay for her bracelet.


How does it all work ? What goes around comes around ? Maybe that experience was posing the question of value to me ? Maybe my own consciousness was highlighting the comedy of my idea of value.



I hadn't done a daily cast then but if I had I wonder if that little incident might show up in the reading. It is the little things that often seem to count for a lot.

 

[Tim K]

Trojina, I think you were rational here-and-now person in both cases.

Item overpriced? You said so without too much thinking and tamed their greed
Someone needs help? All right - you have a pound, why not share it.

I guess you would have cast 15, equalizing.
the superior man reduces that which is too much,
And augments that which is too little.

This shows that money is just a transitory thing, it comes and goes, and you are not attached to it.
It was inadequate pricing and the need for help that got your attention i think.

 

[Trojina]

Yes it reminded me of the 2 of coins in Tarot. Money comes, money goes, it's a big circle. The reason it may have been petty for me to argue the price in the first shop is because the money goes to charity. However sometimes the prices they charge are absurd and it can be questionable how much goes to the actual charity. There has been some incidents of fraud in charitable organisations.

 

[rosada]

Thanks for the comments about 15, Ashteroid. I had not been able to understand how the superior man balances things out. Now I see it is simply through daily living without being attached.
:bows:

 

[Trojina]

Does anyone know why this thread has been moved

Yes I liked what Ash said about 15 although bear in mind I didn't actually cast 15 about my experience. I think I did a cast but can't recall what it was.

 

[rosada]

I moved it cause it seemed like it was more appropriate for a Shared Readings question than Exploring Divination. I pm'd Butterfly Spider. Do you not agree? If it's an issue I can easily move it back...

Rosada

 

[Trojina]

No, no problem. I was puzzled, couldn't find it for a while.

 

[butterfly spider]

This has for me thinking that when we travel anywhere - not just on bus journeys we are not in isolation - even if we don't interact we are travelling along with others. It reminds me of a son we used to sing at Sunday school. - Sharing our possessions - biccies money or tissues - and ourselves - is part of that travelling. We give what we can at the time. Like the lady on the bus sharing her biccies . I paid the £3 because I had just been paid and passed it on. Sometimes I would struggle finding this - but that day I had it. Some says I have no energy to talk or respond to anyone on the bus - other times I have. It's probably no dissimilar

 

[goddessliss]

I hope they weren't used tissues missy!!

 

[butterfly spider]

Probably but they were better than nothing at the time ....