Head for the Hills?

[arabella]

I've recently left an opening for a friend I sometimes date to move on if he wants to. I did this because he is moving out of town for a lot of reasons, has dropped substantial connections with the place [in politics, clubs, and socially], and seems to be making an effort to start some things afresh, so I thought it appropriate to let him make any further moves about keeping our association going. We had a really nice lunch the other day and I acknowledged how busy he must be and said from here I'd wait for him to be in touch when he's got settled. He said he'd contact me before long. But there was nothing definite agreed from here and I certainly won't just come across him where he's moving. So if he wants to drop our association too, along with all the changes he's making, this would be the time.

So as not to just sit and ponder my navel -- much else is stagnant on the work front and I'm a bit at loose ends in general -- I asked the Yi "What shall I do now to improve my future?"

The answer was hex 51.2 becoming hex 54. I don't think I've ever cast that combination in my life. I just sat and stared, it brings NOTHING to mind. What do you suppose?

 

[RindaR]

Read the wikiwing - it will make perfect sense....

 

[arabella]

Read the wikiwing - it will make perfect sense....

Thanks for your advice, but I don't have access to the wikiwing, so can't follow your reference.

 

[dragona]

Hex 51.6 at 2: The shock comes, danger. A hundred thousand lost coins. Climb the nine mounds, do not pursue, the seventh day you will acquire them.
Do not fear loss, do not chase after things. You have what belongs to you, and if you lose it, it will return again. Fears are apt to chase things rather than to hold them. Stop searching down there for coins, look upwards to higher things and get the courage and perseverance to tackle them. (LiSe)
Could it be that Yi was telling you about your friends moving, because THAT was on your mind? If that was the case, this reading makes more sence, perhaps

 

[arabella]

Hex 51.6 at 2: The shock comes, danger. A hundred thousand lost coins. Climb the nine mounds, do not pursue, the seventh day you will acquire them.
Do not fear loss, do not chase after things. You have what belongs to you, and if you lose it, it will return again. Fears are apt to chase things rather than to hold them. Stop searching down there for coins, look upwards to higher things and get the courage and perseverance to tackle them. (LiSe)
Could it be that Yi was telling you about your friends moving, because THAT was on your mind? If that was the case, this reading makes more sence, perhaps

Yes, in addition to Hilary and good old Wilhelm, I read LiSe who is usually most enlightening for me and, for once, rang no bells. I looked at the archives and also drew a blank. Maybe that because my head is noving on, but my emotions haven't caught up yet.

So far as my friend is concerned, it seemed reasaonble that if he's trying to clear the deck in his life I should leave him all the room to do it. He's included me in the steps to come to the point of moving, so I know that is a position of some trust because I don't share what he tells me, and yet he has someone to talk to. So we are friends and I'm not anxious to lose that. On the other hand, the best friends let you do what you need to do and don't get in the way.

Intellectually I do believe that what's "mine is mine" and that is assured. And realising this is a person I will miss, it seems healthy to draw a bead on my own future and get on with it. In looking at my own situation, I'm settled in a flat that is straightfoward and requires nothing, I've just had a reading for my career that basically said I'm doing what I can and there will be developments when they are needed. Life in a spiritual sense is about as interesting as it can get and I have my challenges and projects established. What else is there? I don't have a television and I don't want one. I could take up a sport. But advice not to go chasing coins doesn't sound like a recommendation to buy a tennis racket either. I guess I'm down to, if what belongs to me is appearing on the seventh day -- when is that likely to be?

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[Trojina]

Seems quite a simple answer to me. It recognises leaving something is sad and that one must lose it but counsels not to be too sad for what you think you have lost will be recouped to you at the right time. perhaps not in the way you envisage now but something even better.

I think its addressing you on an emotional level regarding your friend. If you read your first post you talk about the friend then ask about your way forward in life...but your answer is addressing the emotional way forward regarding him since hes on your mind

I can't understand what it is that you don't understand

You seem to be going all over the place in the thread...from the parting with the friend to the fact you don't have a TV or play sport....you lost me there but admittedly I'm easy to lose


This question was really about him and your emotional place in it wasn't it or why would you relate the story of his leaving then ask about your way forward. Seems theres a loss, acknowleged by Yi and some kind of comfort added that what seems lost is not all lost..or that the core of what you need or want from him or anyone, you will regain, but right now theres this feeling of loss.

Its a line that counsels you to relinquish, acknowleges the pain of it and assures you in time the true essence of that which you sorrow for will return. It may not be in the form of his person...it may be someone much better. But right now you have to relinquish

As for the 7th day who knows when that might be....you can't kind of tap your fingers impatiently for the 7 days to be up...you have to escape, go to the hills, get distance and higher perspective. Asking when the 7 days will be up is the opposite of what the line advises you to do.

I always thought there was much comfort in this line. 51 is full of emotions and I think 51.2 is speaking to your emotions here ...it isn't telling you what to do its saying the next step for you emotionally is to get some more distance from everything this relationship ever meant and in doing so you allow what you do need to return when the time comes

 

[arabella]

Seems quite a simple answer to me. It recognises leaving something is sad and that one must lose it but counsels not to be too sad for what you think you have lost will be recouped to you at the right time. perhaps not in the way you envisage now but something even better.

I think its addressing you on an emotional level regarding your friend. If you read your first post you talk about the friend then ask about your way forward in life...but your answer is addressing the emotional way forward regarding him since hes on your mind

I can't understand what it is that you don't understand

You seem to be going all over the place in the thread...from the parting with the friend to the fact you don't have a TV or play sport....you lost me there but admittedly I'm easy to lose


This question was really about him and your emotional place in it wasn't it or why would you relate the story of his leaving then ask about your way forward. Seems theres a loss, acknowleged by Yi and some kind of comfort added that what seems lost is not all lost..or that the core of what you need or want from him or anyone, you will regain, but right now theres this feeling of loss.

Its a line that counsels you to relinquish, acknowleges the pain of it and assures you in time the true essence of that which you sorrow for will return. It may not be in the form of his person...it may be someone much better. But right now you have to relinquish

As for the 7th day who knows when that might be....you can't kind of tap your fingers impatiently for the 7 days to be up...you have to escape, go to the hills, get distance and higher perspective. Asking when the 7 days will be up is the opposite of what the line advises you to do.

I alwasy thought there was much comfort in this line. 51 is full of emotions and I think 51.2 is speaking to your emotions here ...it isn't telling you what to do its saying the next step for you emotionally is to get some more distance from everything this relationship ever meant

Thanks Trojan. In terms of tennis and television, I was really looking for some pursuit to take my mind off this, although those were of course just a joke. I imagined that somewhere in the casting the Yi would give me a clue what to do next because this was a person who absorbed a lot of my time and attention.

In some respects I'm testing my own limits here. And I'm doing it on purpose. And part of my reason is that I don't want a relationship that is convenient, that is just something to do -- not for either of us. Yes, I suppose the Yi is more reflecting me than answering me -- I was purposely trying not to run after anything or anyone. I guess the Yi is saying: Good Idea.

So I'm trying to shift gears and see where that takes me and as I live a rather "small" life right now in many ways it doesn't take an earthquake to change it dramatically. Thus the telly and tennis comments -- hypothetical suggestions of course. I thought I'd asked a very open-ended question that gave the Yi loads of space to get creative -- but apparently my frame of mind wasn't projecting that and I just heard back -- ultimately things will be as they should be so keep your cool. This is essentially a confirmation of what I was already assuming.

 

[dragona]

This is interesting for me somehow, cos I was pushing my thing and it fell appart. So this is telling you not to do the same. Do your own thing, your friend needs to do the same - for the time beeing.
To "look upwards for higher things" could mean that you have to take your mind from the past, upwards as into the future. Coins spilled will be returned in some way, it is not a bad omen.

 

[Trojina]

Thanks Trojan. In terms of tennis and television, I was really looking for some pursuit to take my mind off this, although those were of course just a joke. asked a very open-ended question that gave the Yi loads of space to get creative -- .

Ah, the trouble with this kind of communication is it isn't always clear someone is joking so I missed that you were joking

I think at least Yi acknowledges the import of the connection to you. It isn't saying run off and get distracted its saying yes this is a loss...but its temporary.

On a literal level aren't you surrounded by hills.....do you need to be in hills right now...or something ?

Yi can be very literal...are there a series of 9 hills about ?

 

[dragona]

...or of course, Yi is just telling you to take up hiking ))))

 

[arabella]

Ah, the trouble with this kind of communication is it isn't always clear someone is joking so I missed that you were joking

I think at least Yi acknowledges the import of the connection to you. It isn't saying run off and get distracted its saying yes this is a loss...but its temporary.

On a literal level aren't you surrounded by hills.....do you need to be in hills right now...or something ?

Yi can be very literal...are there a series of 9 hills about ?

Oh T, remember last Winter? I nearly died on one of those "hills!" Up there where Gordon grabbed me up and took me home. He doesn't exist you know. He was a mirage and no amount of investigation has turned up a single clue where he came from.

But, yes, there are plenty of hills about, and I'd never thought of it. Good grief, here we are on the verge of the snowy season again -- and it could be that I'm being directed back to the wilderness. Hmmmm. I took great pains to move into town where I can walk about freely and not end up in some ravine. Of course there are loads of walking, hiking and climbing groups around here. I'll give it some thought -- you never know for certain until you consider all angles.