can anyone help with this please..hexagram 26 line three becoming hexagram 41

[sparkler]

can anyone advise...i consulted the i ching asking if should i persue my relationship...the answer given was hexagram 26 line three...becoming hexagram 41...this answer seems some what ambiguous... can anyone advise...i would very much appreciate it many thanks, sparkler

 

[dobro p]

Hi. I see no ambiguity. Hex 26 is about great restraint. 26.3 is about how, while you puruse the valuable prize you must also protect what you've already got - you've got a responsibility to do that. It's to your advantage to carry out what you think is right here, even though it's difficult; it's to your advantage to move in the direction you want to move in.

Which means, I think, it's a pretty good idea to pursue the relationship you're wondering about, but it will take balance on your part, plus it won't be easy. Are you the sort of person who likes a challenge?

 

[sparkler]

...thanks so much for your reply dobro, what you say makes a lot of sense...this relationship certainly is a challenge...i will have to think hard about this..

many thanks, sparkler:

 

[sparkler]

does anyone else have any ideas on this please?

many thanks
sparkler

 

[heylise]

26.3 If you acquire something beautiful or precious, you also acquire the worries, duties and care that go with it. Accept them as being part of it, do not see them as negative but as essential parts of your life. A careless life without possessions or responsibilities can be alluring, but a life with care and possessions, and the ability to cope with them, is complete.

A relation brings a lot of work, trouble and worries, about many things but also about itself, in order to make it work.

And a relation will determine how your life will be. You do not only make a relation with a person, it brings also a relation with a life, it is making a future, discarding other futures. Big decision! I guess the Yi wants you to really realize that. Wants you not only trying to find out if you want this person, but most of all which life you want.