Hexagram 45 + some others

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Was wondering if someone could help me interpret these readings. I threw them recently to try to gain some insight into something that has been on my mind for some time - this thing that is confronting me in my own territory so to speak.

How should I get used to this rising power of X in my life?

45

It reminds me of church or religious gatherings.
Switch belief systems? Join the crowd?

So I asked:

So do I need to just worship X (kind of a sarcastic question but honest as well)?

30.5 -> 13

Blown away by that answer I said:

Oh so X is better than Y - superior the ultimate truth and everything I know is wrong ?

21.6 -> 51

Well I don't feel like worshiping X - please comment.

27.4 -> 21


I know not a very profound line of questioning. But it is dealing with something pretty profound and has been on my mind for a long time and will probably be on my mind for the rest of my life - unfortunately or fortunately...

I can't quite reckon if this divination is leading me gently in some certain direction that is toward some inevitable truth that I will be unable to handle? That will completely shatter my reality. Leave me paralyzed and unable to escape... etc.

I'm sort of looking for a new paradigm but this that is being offered I can't say fits with me so well. As a matter of fact it sort of leaves out ... a big aspect of everything I know - am and are fond of. It would mean: so much of everything is a lie totally put out there just to deceive (something which I can't quite believe because it sounds like a paranoid pot-headed idea). Nonetheless I'm up a creek without a paddle. Thus my sincere but glib if not irreverent line of questioning.

Well hope thats enough to provide sufficient grounds for interpretation.

Thanks in advance.

 

[willowfox]

How should I get used to this rising power of X in my life? 45

I suppose the simple answer is to live with the fact but to always be alert to the hidden danger of the situation, so externally show acceptance but internally, be prepared for something nasty to happen.

 

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Thanks again willowfox. Your gift for interpretation is really outstanding. I hope to one day be able to see the simplicity and clarity that you see in divinations.

Your simple answer seems right in accord with my own feeling about the matter.

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I was a little hysterical at the time...
Wanted the Yi to get more entangled so I could lean on it for support...

So I assumed the worst that it was saying that this new power is a religious force ...
And since that wasn't so off the mark in the scheme (the idea isn't irrelevant) of things I considered it and asked the question:

So what about exclusively worshipping X?

(Which was a rather glib question)

When it simply answered 30.5

I guess I can suppose it Is just reflecting my lamentation state of mind?

It's in other words not VOTING for that is it?

I know the Yijing doesn't really get involved in my own personal decisions.
Never truly makes people's decisions - but only illuminates possibilities.

I was trying to prompt it to intercede on my behalf - but when it just said having a change of heart I was disappointed. Then I started to wonder if that was what it advised.

Maybe it was giving me a glib answer to suit my question... ?

So I threw another saying that this is actually NOT what I want to do...

When it answered 27.4

I suspected perhaps it was pointing to another desire
rather than disagreeing with me telling me I actually DO want to... lol.

I know this is vague but do you have any idea?

Yet I guess since 45 probably more along the lines you spoke of the following divinations are not so relevant? Since I kind of went in the wrong direction with the first one?

 

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OK so when I threw 30.5 I was feeling sad. The question I asked was Not sincere really.
This new thing in my life is confronting me and I asked a question that I knew I wasn't even considering as a possibility. The fact that I even suggested worshiping it was a extreme exaggeration.
I would never really do that...

Perhaps it was just saying that my woe was a good sign - and perhaps needed to be sincere.

Because I just asked:

"why it does the Yi seem to be suggesting to "worship" in lieu of 30.5?

It said 23.1

 

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Wow just read this guy's website about 23
says some stuff that I find pretty interesting:

This is what he said about the first line I just got:

(1) 剝牀以足.蔑貞.凶.
By cutting wounded at the foot. Insignificant, contemptuous divination. Misfortune.


Seems to fit pretty well with my situation. Wilhelm seems to capture some of that but translates it as cutting the bed and not cutting oneself. I have also seen it applied to an other however...

Well that seems to answer that question. I knew it was glib.
and the answer came out glib. this line proves that that happens.

I guess I'll keep that in mind...