Help interpreting reading, 50 changing to 46

[Ravenhart]

My question was "Should I renew a friendship with a woman I used to be friends with?" Long story short we both messed up the friendship. She used me, I wanted more than friendship, our mutual bad habits brought us down, said some things we shouldn't have, the end.

About a year and a half ago she tried to enter my life again but I wasn't in a good place at the time so I declined.

Now I've lost weight (~450 down to 265), kicked the bad habits, am in a slightly better frame of mind, and so is she from what I can tell. Been interacting a tiny bit on FB but I asked I Ching if I should really renew the friendship.

Got 50 changing to 46 (moving lines 4 and 6)

From my little I Ching book which doesn't cover moving lines, I got that it is a big risk that might/should be successful but I might not have the skills required for a real friendship with her (we're both aspies). Either that or just don't move into friendship too fast.

 

[canislulu]

Without considering the text yet, here is a quick impression I have of 50.4.6 > 46 in relation to your question.

You can cast a "New Vessel", i.e., a "new relationship" with this woman in the context of "Ascending" to a different level, i.e., you don't allow her to "use you" as you say she did in the past, and you enter into the situation being open to what the friendship IS rather than being the space where you "wanted more than friendship."

The "Yang" operator of the reading (rendering the fourth and sixth lines as yang and the unchanging lines of the reading as yin) is Hexagram 35, i.e., the inspiration leading to the renewed interest in friendship is the realization coming to light ( radiance over the earth) that you both "messed up".

The "Yin" operator of the reading (rendering the changing lines of the reading as yin and the unchanging lines yang) is H 5.
You realize the new friendship by enjoying each other's company "eating and drinking" in friendship, "waiting" to see how the friendship develops, taking one step at a time (again --- like the relating figure Hexagram 46)

Cast the New Vessel of Friendship, Ascending one step at a time.