finishing book

[oponopono]

hi everyone,

my last post was about the process of finishing a bulky manuscript I had waiting in the drawer for too long, which I am just about to complete in the next days. This ending brought about a great amount of insecurity and doubt. Not so much on whether it is good or will friends and editors (first set of readers) like it, but much more about how exposed I am in it, being so biographical. In a strange symbolic way...

I feel very vulnerable, wake up in the middle of the night sweating, and just have terrible thoughts that I should not deliver it next 15th, as I said I would.

I started asking the Y about what was going on with me and the answers were quite ominous, very much around 44, but the misfortunate lines...

Therefore I have these two I would appreciate some support with :

1 - There seems to be serious faults in this book - how can I still correct them? 56, 3 > 35

2 - What can I do throughout this one last week (until the 15th) in order to deliver the best manuscript possible ? 10, 2 > 25

Im just scared, so it clouds my ability to read anything at all... the relating hexagrams (35, and 25) seem to indicate there is no big deal about it, merely the problems of an early draft with an unexperienced (and overemotional) writer. I didnt plan to work so much in it this next week, but 10,2 seems to indicate it would be positive to maintain this ongoing writing retreat (help, im stuck here for 3 weeks now!) and maybe from silence and concentration some new solutions will surprise me (25). This is now the plan for the week...
but what could possibly mean that I burn my house and loose my servants ?


Thank you, any help is needed and thanked!

yoana

 

[gato]

56, 3 > 35 means to prepare a PDF and post the entire book here otherwise you will lose your young servant. danger.

 

[oponopono]

I would love to do it, but unfortunately it is not English...

Who could be the servant who is getting mad at me over this draft ? Can it be you, gato?

...or the group of close friends who are raging for 15th to finally read the "infamous" (among us, of course) book that tells the whole dirty story they re dying to know...?
Is it about this group of friends ?

There is no shelter or house in the book I could think of burning down. Should I erase the references to real peoples names, perhaps? make it more fiction ?


I just found this in the archives and found it really useful :

Hi Rosalie-
I would concur with Jesed about being cautious.
I see 56.3 not so much as a prediction of a disaster or screwup as a cautionary reminder that the wanderer is putting himself in a very vulnerable position, one of extreme accountability - the normal amount PLUS the suspicion that is almost automatically heaped on the stranger. Just remember this and stay extra alert, and humble.
The Fan Yao, 35.3, in my personal understanding, shows the prince extending many liberties to his people in the hope that they will respond by learning the responsible exercise of liberty. To me this is laissez faire morality, that the exercise of freedom, together with accountabiity, is the best teacher of ethical behavior. Nobody is more free than the wanderer, but nobody is more accountable either.
So, if you go to singles events, use care and caution, keep your wits about you, and have a wonderful time.

So maybe the question had a wrong premise, maybe there is nothing that wrong with the book as it is, but I have to be aware I am putting myself into some dangerous exposure...

Because 10/25 just seems to be telling me I should go on as I have been so far, isolated and focused, and keep my spontaneity about it all
(right?)




HELP!

 

[literunner]

Hi Yoana,

The archives you retrieved from Bradford ring true to my experience with this line as well as making sure you aren't meddling in other people's affairs to the point that you might burn bridges. So to make progress, don't be meddlesome with other people and their lives and stop/don't do any actions that might make someone mad-- like exposing others in a published work in ways they might not like.
So your idea to erase any references to actual people might be a great instinct.


Regarding 10.2, I got this from the WikiWing in case it's useful:

'Treading the path, smooth and easy.
For hidden people, constancy brings good fortune.'

‘Hidden people’ are hermits. They can tread the path smoothly and easily because they’re not bothered by societal standards or how anyone else might react to what they do. They don’t act out of the desire to have a particular effect, only from their own connection with spirit.

So keep working on your book by yourself, as you've been doing, connected through your own inspiration, without entanglement and sincere-- but I would also keep from burning bridges with any friends per your 56.3 reading.

Hope this is helpful and congratulations on your book accomplishment
LR

 

[oponopono]

Yes, thank you, literunner. The more I review and proof read it the more it dawns on me how naive (25) I was to think such a story would have no consequences. Of course I have to be aware of what I am putting out there, minimize the impact, protect the story, and really take this time of solitude to prepare for what comes ahead...

suddenly I realized the mess Ive made....
(no remorse....)

yoana