Health condition? 61.2.5>27

[msmith]

Hello, I've been quite sick the last few months and am just starting to recover, it has also got me pretty down at times. I asked: 'How serious is my overall health condition?'

61.2.5>27 Inner truth > Nourishment...

Doesn't seem to be giving me a direct answer so I'm not sure how to interpret this (?), any thoughts would be welcome, thanks

 

[canislulu]

My first thought is that the prognosis is good. Neither of the changing lines have warnings or mention pitfalls. You say that you are starting to recover and from Yi's answer I don't think you have reason to believe that you won't recover completely.

Perhaps 61.2 is telling you that health ("a good wine vessel") is available to you ("I will share with you, pouring it all out.") The "calling crane in the shadows" that is willing to share it with you is perhaps your own innate self-healing ability.

The fact that you asked "how serious" makes me wonder if you are worried that you won't recover completely. And therefore the changing line, 61.5 ("There is truth and confidence as a bond -- no mistake") surprises me. If you had truth and confidence in your health I wouldn't think you would have asked a question about it.

I believe the best physicians help patients to connect with their own innate self healing abilities and guide people in removing obstacles that they have to accessing those abilities. One way of helping the body's healing mechanisms to perform optimally is via proper nourishment and so the relating hexagram makes sense to me. Perhaps the answer is also giving you advise about how to continue to recover. Nourish your body with good food and nourish your spirit with a connection to your inner truth.

And I am wondering if there is some lesson in the illness you have that is "calling you" to connect to your inner truth in some way. If the "calling crane" were your illness, what gift does it have that it is willing to give to you if you could trust there is some blessing? Was something out of balance in your life that you are now bringing back into balance and hence starting to recover?

What is next for you? What do you have left to do that requires your recovering to accomplish?

 

[msmith]

Thanks for that callingcrane. Yes I have been depressed and paranoid about my health; it has forced me to temporarily quit playing sport which was my major social outlet. When i do have a social occasion it really helps and i feel better and so i think it is mental too. I have also been busy at work and have not had a proper break in a long while, I think this is where my balance is lacking; I just can't seem to shake off the symptoms fully which makes me fear the worst. I am going to try for a more postive mental outlook and maybe meditation.

Cheers :bows:

 

[pocossin]

How serious is my overall health condition?
61.2.5 > 27

If you are unable to play sports, it's serious. The goblet of line 2 and hexagram 27 suggest medication. The truth of line 5 suggests a proper diagnosis. See an MD and get this over with.

 

[fallada]

I'm strongly supporting the "27 indicates medication" theory.

(example: How will this depressive episode develop? 27.1.6 . Hindsight: Silly me staring at hexagrams (line 1) instead of acting and getting me the SSRI's I needed. When I finally did (line 6) they worked wonders.)