Hex 23.1.4.5 > 25 - Why has the universe and god sent me this dreadful burden?

[sofia]

Hi again

this is a very important reading for me after doing numerous readings all evening to sort some things out in my mind. I have spent the past 3.5 years recovering from a 51 type situation with a guy who I believed was my equal, my soulmate, my dream guy, "the one" - and I only knew him briefly. The impact of our meeting and ensuing events have had such a profound impact on me and my life that I've been waiting to wake up and have it all click i.e. that he would come back into my life or that there was a lesson to learn of huge importance, or that I'd meet someone else and laugh it all off as one of those moments in life....

While there have been many lessons I've learned through this situation, the biggest is that it's all within me to learn from this and be free of it and that this situation is just a catalyst for my fears and insecurities and other issues. I have recently gone through some emotional freedom technique therapy which has really helped. But despite the great progress and feeling like I've landed in a really good place with positive things ahead, I still have such degradingly down moments about that past situation and then it affects how i feel about the rest of my life which I hate so much because I really like my life at the moment! These moments can get so bad that they devastate me. I realise this is part of the healing process but I am desperate for all of this to end. I've had enough! I feel this burden has overstayed its welcome big time!! So i asked the IC

"Why did the universe and god send me this dreadful burden?"

I received 23.1.4.5 > 25

If anyone could help me interpret this I would appreciate it. I always get confused with 25

thanks
sofia :bows:

 

[sofia]

Ah, second time I'm ignored this week.....

Um......if my question or situation doesn't greatly appeal perhaps block it from your mind and just provide some general translation of the hex result that would be appreciated

cheers
sofia :bows:

 

[my_key]

Hi Sofia
It is strange that some posts here get a response and others are left unanswered. What's going on there?
This question looks to be only one small part of a huge situation in your life. You have been getting new insights through the EFT work you have been doing recently and although you really like your life at the moment you do get devastated by flashes of past behaviours coming back to you. Unable to always accept what is happening to you as healing you at times sink into a sense of desperation.
So one possibility for you could be

"Why did the universe and god send me this dreadful burden?"

I received 23.1.4.5 > 25

23 - Strip away the way you are looking at things.
23.1 - Face the reality of what is going on inside you now, not just what you see to be going on around you,
23.4 - How you choose to act and see yourself is important for you. Choose what is really in your heart.
23.5 - Plan for your future. What is it you want , not what is it that you want others to see in you.
25 - Remember that things will start to grow and move in your favour.

Mike

 

[titania]

A few weeks ago, I took my cat, forced her into a small box and locked her in. Then I carried her, bumping along through some noisy, scary places, ignoring her plaintive cries for help. When I at last let her out, she found herself in a small, unnaturally bright bright room where a couple of strangers grabbed her and held her down, and one of them stuck sharp needles into her flesh. Then I forced her back into the small box, repeated the terrifying journey, and finally let her out back in our own home.

She may still be wondering, "Why did my human being do this dreadful thing to me?" She can't possibly understand the concept of vets and shots, so she can't possibly know that it was done out of love.

In my experience, 23 is probably the most painful 'change' in the entire I Ching. But, as Lise says about this hexagram, "... the outside of things decays some day, but if there is a strong and true inside, this will survive and find a new form." As difficult as it is, the stripping away may be necessary for the 'strong and true inside' to blossom and grow.

Sometimes I think 25 should be called, "Sh*t Happens". It describes events that often seem random, unconnected to cause and effect. Yet it also has the sense of being in accord with the universe and with the ebb and flow of the world, so probably the events are not as random as they appear.

Perhaps "this dreadful burden" was really a wonderful gift. Our limited human minds may not be capable of understanding why we have to go through so much pain sometimes, but perhaps even without understanding, we can accept that it was ultimately for our own growth and benefit, and that can make the burden a little easier to bear.

 

[sofia]

Thank you so much to both of you Mike and Titania - what a clear break down of things and what I generally suspected but I always like to learn more about (and be reassured by) the IC, so I really appreciate these interpretations.

Funny Titania how you say 25 is about both" random events unconnected to cause and effect" and yet also has "a sense of being in accord with the universe....so probably the events are not as random as they appear". It's contradictory but I guess at the end of the day that's regardless because the main message seems to be about stripping away the outside crap and "the strong and true inside" blossoming and growing....

I've thought that all along - as I have with other past lessons in my life - despite not being able to grasp it with my conscious mind, but I did this reading and posted this on a night when I was pretty desperately at my wits end with it.....but the ebb and flow gets less choppy these days so that's surely a good sign.

thanks again

namaste
sofia

 

[bamboo]

in general, 23 to 25 would suggest stripping away so that one can be unembroiled, return to innocence. in itself is not a burden, the burden is in holding on to what must be stripped, unable to disentangle yourself mentally, you suffer, wishing it could be resolved. 25 is all about disentangling, less judgement of how things 'should' be.

maybe this is a process of healing in the root chakra issues of belonging/ and finding "the one" only to be disappointed, arouses all the hurt and insecurity/betrayal held in the wounded root chakra center. so clean house is what 23 says, remove the unworkable, embrace the pain and sorrow so that it can have done its work, and sweep the heart clean.
25 could suggest detaching yourself from the story, and being who you really are without the story. Take a bath; go out into the earth, sit on the grass, wear red fuzzy comforting socks and maybe dance, bringing the story out of your head and into your body. these are all ways to ground yourself, rediscover the joy of you inside your body.
25 could also suggest not trying to figure it out, who the guy was. what he meant. dismantle the story and come home to yourself. the innocent mind doesnt need answers, and letting go makes room for clarity

 

[sofia]

Wow Bamboo that all makes a lot of sense! The whole return to innocence and the idea of not trying to figure it out but just feeling it sweeping the heart clean.....I am very guilty of a lot of left brain thinking and not enough of right brain thinking - or both! I used to be the other way around and my right brain (or rather my body, heart and emotions) ruled and then as I kept getting burnt I switched totally into left brain and tried to rationalise everything in my mind.....hopefully this EMT therapy and my realisation of that means I can balance the two.

I love the idea of the red fuzzy comforting socks! I have some colourful bed socks so might try those!!