Can love return?

[dawdling]

I have posted a series of questions on here over the past weeks, and while I normally do not consult the book of change so often, I have found this helpful. I have one last question for a while I think. At the end of a five year relationship, heartbroken, I am struggling to see this as the end. We've both declared that we hope to reconnect in the future, but I am not even 100% sure why we are ending this now. At any rate I have asked the following:

"What will result if XXX and I reconnect romantically in the future?"

and Yi's response: 56.1.4.6 to 36

I recognize that it might only create more difficulty to hang on to hope in this scenario, and Yi's answer seems to suggest that longevity will be challenging at best. But perhaps some more clarity on this reading can help me frame my mind to move on. As always I thank you all for your advice, and insights, they have helped through an extremely difficult time, and I really appreciate any clarity on this answer.

 

[Lavalamp]

Hypothetical questions don't help you find a way forward I don't think, they only confuse things. I would try again with a better thought out question.

- LL

 

[ginnie]

When we get three moving lines, I often concentrate on the middle one, which in this case is 56.4. This is the line about being given things, but being unhappy anyway. I think it points to a kind of persistent discontent that is hard to get rid of. Happiness would elude you. You might decide, however, that you can shake off this malaise and make a go of it; that such a course of action is better than any of the alternatives. By the way, I don't see anything wrong with asking hypothetical questions . . .

 

[Tim K]

"What will result if XXX and I reconnect romantically in the future?" 56.1.4.6 → 36
.1 Dragging on the issue
.4 While still not being happy
.6 Ignoring the chance to do something new
Resulting in kind of oppression 36, light is hidden, forced perseverance.

Richmond 56.6:
The bird burns up its own nest.
First the wanderer laughs but then weeps and cries out.
He carelessly loses his cow. Misfortune.

The bird is a symbol of spirit or whole reality and its nest is where it raises its young; our being cannot raise more young (new experience) if we stay in outer identification, the new comes from the inner. At first being out in defined reality seems clear and to be a solution, but nothing new comes and it becomes a repetition. When the inner is included in our sense of the real new experience comes fresh each day, like the service of a cow, this we carelessly lose.


Transitional 30.4 → 22 (Adornment), Richmond: Sudden its coming. Suddenly it dies away.
After you reconnect it won't be for long before the wish to split apart comes again.

22.6 → 36 (Darkening), Daniels: Utter simplicity leads to no error.
Accept the freedom already.

 

[Lavalamp]

Yeah - I think what I meant by hypothetical was predicating a reading on if someone else does something what would happen... If you meant if you tried to make something happen, that's different, but the answer might entirely depend on how you go about it.

- LL