Experiences with 46.4 in relationships?

[Yasmin]

I'm curious about practical experiences with 46.4 in relationships. The way I see it, the interpretation could be:

Option 1: advice to the querent: slowly, methodically let go of old habits, attachments, patterns (that would be the sacrifice), and grow up towards a more mature emotional self (that would be the good fortune)

Option 2: persevere, work on the relationship, let go of any illusions attached to it (sacrifice), eventually the relationship will work out (that would be the good fortune)

And I suppose it could be both.

In another post, Diamanda said that she had never ever seen it to mean that the relationship would work out, in practice, only that it had to be given up. But almost every other reader sees it as option 2. i have no practical experience with it. I'm curious as to other peoples experiences with that line.

 

[meng]

A mountain has a soul. To be introduced to the soul of a mountain is to offer ones soul in return, usually in the form of a real sacrifice. Such a union is steady and promising.

Whether that helps or hurts a relationship depends on the steadiness of the hearts involved. If one has climbed to this height (line 4 theoretically enters the heavenly realm), it doesn't necessarily mean the other has.

Complexity occurs when, after ones heart is steady, it doesn't rely on anyone else to make it so. Necessity being the mother of invention, and desire being the child of desire, this line isn't especially favorable toward demanding or special relationships, or its not the focus of it anyway.