Good question!

[rosada]

After reading an article about all these scary things that had happened to people after winning the lottery (wild spending sprees and ending up broke or dead from a drug overdose) I asked the I Ching,

"How would it be for me to be super rich?"

Much to my surprise I got an encouraging answer (17.1.5.6 - 35) so that was fun to know that I would be able to handle it ( a tough job but...).

Anyway, it made me curious to know what questions others have come up with that you felt gave you particularly insightful answers that others might get value asking for themselves.

Rosada

 

[Trojina]

Only yesterday I was reading how some people may not be able to handle or have large amounts of money because their energy field couldn't 'wear' it so they got rid of it and so on.

One question that has occurred to me to ask which I haven't asked is about my own lifespan. That may seem morbid but once you get to middle age obviously more and more of one's peers die, often unexpectedly, one has more health issues and thoughts of lifespan do crop up more. I mean if life is a timeline like this



/..................................................../............................/

the middle marker being where one is now for example, then it has occurred to me to ask 'where am I...how long have I got' and so on. Of course Yi can't give exact figures (er nor would one want it) but it might give some idea of how one is best to think about it.


Some people do instinctively know ....they just do, but mostly we don't. In my experience Yi doesn't go with the whole denial of age thing popular now. If it thinks you are too old for something it tells you ! Because that is the reality. We have a limited time and it doesn't matter how much organic food/yoga/supplements you do you are going to die one day. Might it help to know how to orientate oneself to the rest of one's allotted time ? I don't know I haven't asked yet.

 

[rosada]

Great suggestion!
So I tried it. I asked, "Where am I on the birth - death continuum?"
I got 41.2.4 - 21 as in
41.2 "Don't take on any long term projects."
41.4 "Slow down..relax...let the young folks help you."
21uc Confronting a hard truth.

hmm..so glad I asked..I think..

 

[Trojina]

LOL well you put it pretty directly ! I'd probably make my question fuzzier since I guess it's not just a matter of actual time left but the nature of the time left and what we want to use it for.

41.2.4>21 is quite a nice answer. I agree you shouldn't be working too hard to help others (41.2) and in fact if you were less burdened others would be really happy about it (41.4). It does seem to be a picture of the 2nd half of the life energy...but it also seems to hint quite strongly you are perhaps expending too much energy in assisting others. I don't know if this is true. So Yi seems to have taken the opportunity to nag you a little Rosada...and it seems you better hear it (21)

If people ever say to you "Rosada I really wish you relaxed a bit more" then this reading supports that.

 

[Olga Super Star]

Where am I along my lifespan?
13.3>25
25 always with me

13.3
'Hiding away arms in the thickets,
Climbing your high mound.
For three years, not starting anything.'

This is me I think. Not doing anything for a long time. Just battling about.
So it's not really saying whether I'm dying tomorrow or not

13 zhi Hexagram 25, People in Harmony without entanglement. Disentangled from the fight, wanting to make the next action better grounded in reality, free of delusion.

free from delusion and get down to earth and stop making stories into your mind is also something I've been receiving these weeks.

Anyway I'm curious, I want to ask how long do I have (before death shall come)
45.4>8

45.4
'Great good fortune, no mistake.'
45 zhi Hexagram 8, Gathering Seeking Union. Gathering moved by free choice alone, no force of necessity. And gathering with the active desire to enlarge its field of vision. (fan yao 8.4, 'seeking union outside')

He's not answering again!
or maybe it's saying that when I die it won't be a mistake, it will be good, I will get to join other people and enlarge my vision

I like it that 13, 45 and 8 are all about going with other people

 

[butterfly spider]

I was going to post about the lottery but got distracted with the above
I have known since a child that I would never be old - really old. It had never really bothered me - I think my rather energetic energies will sizzle out before old age.
I even remember once at school when we had to draw ourselves as older in art - I felt uncomfortable drawing me as very old. When I did a medicine wheel workshop once I had great difficulty getting round it to the last phase - maybe that was it. It is not that I fear getting old or even dying - it's just that I know that I won't visit it this time round.

Anyway I did ask just to see

62.6 to 56
Going past - bird flying away
Travelling

???? Like Rosada - I THINK I am glad I asked!! Will start wearing purple now

My daughter once write a poem about clouds and going to Heaven aged 6. It was about a stairway she could see leading on the clouds to heaven. It was really rather beautiful talking about how beautiful it was ... The rider at the end - an after thought perhaps was -
Not yet!!

 

[canislulu]

I had a palm reader tell me years ago that I had already outlived my "lifeline." I think that the set time for our flying away can be changed.

"Marrying Maiden delays the set time and marries at the right time." or how does 54.4 translate?

 

[peterg]

Some notes I jotted down after reading Una Power's Clairvoyant Secrets.

'The complex language and many variations of the cards (she uses 36 ordinary playing cards) no longer puzzles me because I have mastered it'
'A distinct pattern of cards show winning money. Anyone for whom a big win was predicted, got it.
But all returned with tales of woe: drinking, family rifts, grudgery, reminders of favours done in the past, acrimony, quarrels.
Many wished they could go back to the days before the win and said they were happier then than they realized'.

When the National Lottery first started she used to get really excited when she saw big wins in the cards. But now she has had a complete reversal of feeling.

I think she also said its the money up for grabs that causes the problems, rather than earned money.
And 'people who win, expect to win. Some personalities think in poverty terms, and will always feel poor regardless of financial status'.

On 'bad luck' she said 'One businessman dogged by bad luck broke every rule in the business book: ill advised buys, insufficent working capital, borrowing heavily, no feasibility studies... Not bad luck but stupidity.'
I suppose the same principle could be applied to lifespan, whatever is fated.

 

[peterg]

It was a Library loan hence the notes.

'Money earned and well spent can bring satisfaction. But money up for grabs like prize money or inherited money, does unpleasant things to people.Some of the most difficult readings have to do with people feeling cheated over a will.'
'People know their own future subconsciously. Their subconscious tells them when money is coming. They radiate financial confidence and simply wait for the good financial news'

'Palm lines can fade or grow. I have seen palm lines change, growing longer, deepening. Length and strength of life line is related to health, ambition, self image, confidence, and not necessarily length of life.'
'Artistic lines become more vivid if you use and develop artistic ability.'
'How many children are in the palm lines ? Difficult to tell. The cards are a much better guide.'

'People come in grief and they want to talk, not to be talked at, or much worse talked out of their feelings or advised to look on the bright side.'

'Occasionally clients cards seem to make no sense at all. One client had a question about the prospects for starting a business. But the cards were about death, tragedy and shocking events....Later multiple homicides occurred and the client knew and visited afterwards the family of the killer who were in a terrible state.'

She can't read her own cards.

 

[rosada]

Thanks for that interpretation, Trojina. Spooky - I have been helping out at the local homeless shelter and feeling that I've made a lifetime commitment - I mean once you've seen this world up close how can you walk away? How can you not see it? So now I wonder what the reading means.. don't burn myself out or on the other hand if I pace myself and keep caring I could live forever? Certainly it's given me a reason to get up in the morning.

Butterfly Spider -
That's an interesting response in regards to the question Where am I life span - wise. 62.6 The little bird fly's beyond his nest. Maybe you've already lived beyond your original "contract"! Now you're free to 56. Travel where ever you like!
Oh, I think jumpingmouse saw that too, judging from her comment.

Peterg. Fascinating insights! Before I met my husband I was interested in palm reading but frustrated because my own (18 year old) palm was pretty blank. The day after I met him I noticed a dozen new lines had appeared! Fate changed and sealed!

Rosada

Anyway, didn't mean to turn this into an interpretation thread. hmm.. maybe I should move it over to shared readings?

 

[butterfly spider]

I like this thread - but I originally went to it as I liked the question about the lottery and what would happen...
I got distracted by the life span bit

I was talking to my children about the £66million prize on offer last week and our different views - perhaps the two different parts could be separated. The life span bit perhaps shouldn't be interpreted - it could get complicated.
X

 

[Trojina]

Anyway, didn't mean to turn this into an interpretation thread. hmm.. maybe I should move it over to shared readings?

And I didn't mean for anyone to post their lifespan readings but as you did I threw in a small alternative interpretation, that's all.

Your original question was

Anyway, it made me curious to know what questions others have come up with that you felt gave you particularly insightful answers that others might get value asking for themselves.

...so I told you a question I'd thought of but not yet asked. I've no intention of doing more interpretations here so don't move the thread on my account. I've not even asked the question for myself yet anyway so my idea of lifespan question isn't something I can recommend particularly. It's a question one would need to feel one's own way into in terms of how you think of lifespan, or not.

So your idea for the thread is as above, you want to know some interesting questions others have used for themselves. Good idea. I never proposed to do lifespan interpretations it was just a thought for a question I'd had that's all . I can't see why my idea about a lifespan question needs separating from this thread. I suppose if people want to go on discussing interpretations of lifespan questions they could go elsewhere. I only offered you some ideas Rosada as part of the conversation.


Carry on......

 

[butterfly spider]

Lotteries and lifespan could be connected? I think the lifespan idea is great and has gor me
Thinking ....Life is a lottery perhaps. In our local newsagent an elderly lady won £65,000 the person who let her in the door did the lottery after her and won nothing. The elderly lady was very ill - and the other was a young Mum - why was this. The money couldn't give the lady what
She needed anyway.

A good question could be if a fairy godmother granted you one wish would it lead to happiness?
I got 16.236 - gazing up at the stars - procrastination brings regrets - having a change of heart

 

[hilary]

I'm fairly sure I don't want to know my life expectancy at the moment, so back to

questions... that you felt gave you particularly insightful answers that others might get value asking for themselves

Most of my most helpful answers have come from very ordinary questions, like 'guidance for the week?' or 'how to...?' or 'help!?!?' One that surprised me, though: asking 'Why haven't I succeeded at this?' and getting a spectacularly clear and helpful answer, much easier to grasp than all the 'how to's and 'what if's I'd asked about it. Surprising, because I wouldn't normally set much store by such a negative question, but there it is.

I also like,
'What's the gift of this?'
(There is one - whether or not I want it.)

And
'What's the ritual meaning of doing this?'
- when there is something that has to be done, especially something I find alienating/ mechanical/ not quite real, looking to reconnect it with reality. What's the true name/ inner nature of book-keeping or code debugging or email processing? What am I really doing when I'm doing this stuff? (And come to think of it, this one would also be good to ask about things I am drawn to.)

Butterfly spider, about fairy godmothers... how about asking,
'What do I want?'
That one can be fun...

 

[butterfly spider]

Here goes
35.1 to 23 biting through

Probably getting rid of obstacles and voids and filling them with wonderful things...

 

[hilary]

Or maybe - it's not so much that you want the obstacles to go away, as that you want to feel confident, ready and unhurried in the midst of them?

 

[butterfly spider]

I worked in a school and they had one if those shape squares (wooden) where you bang the shapes through with a hammer - you had to hit them hard but eventually they fall through to the otherside.

I thought of this toy after reading your posting.
X

 

[Pearlescent]

Jim carrey quoted the buddah or another person as saying that all spirituality is to relieve suffering. Then he realized that what he does (being funny and entertaining) is helpful on a spiritual level.

On another note, I recently watched documentary titled 'living on one dollar' about rich white kids from the US living with poverty stricken farmers in Guatamala for 30 days, and when they returned to the US they used their documentary as a platform to help the guatamalans live a better life, raising hundreds of thousands in donations and providing them with medical care and schooling. It really made me feel something powerful to see what they'd done, so I asked Yi "how can I help people?" And recieved 14.2.6, which was incredibly encouraging, and I thought this question could be useful for others to ask about themselves!

 

[rosada]

Right on Pearl. I think asking "How can I help?" is one of the most important, powerful, life changing questions we can ask only second to "Is it safe here?"

 

[rosada]

Okay, not thinking about any situation in particular but just asking in general "How can I help?"
I received 18.1 > 26 as in "Don't blame the past, learn from it."