How to make my life happy?

[cris]

Hello, dear Clarity members

The return from Summer holidays inspired a broad (in retrospect, somewhat vague) reading:
"Dear Yi, please tell me what the best way is to make my life happy."
47.3 > 28

Gulp. Oppression / Exhaustion. A very ominous changing line too, according to all the texts I consulted:
A man permits himself to be oppressed by stone,
And leans on thorns and thistles.
He enters the house and does not see his wife.
Misfortune.

Self-inflicted oppression? Inability to see the good around me? Maybe. Imbalance? Afraid so. Renounce? Truly hope not...

I found an interesting insight to the same casting in another reading:

I think your answer may be saying you are giving yourself too hard a time, stop doing this line 3 says you are hurting yourself looking for things to nourish and support you where they cannot. Or maybe you are giving yourself a hard time because you feel you messed up the situation and now you're getting wound up over it. I think the Yi is just telling you to stop hurting yourself. (...) I think you would do better to take care of yourself a bit now and chill these feelings are getting too much (28)

Close to home. It would not be the first time the Yi warns me against my inclination to bash myself... This however sounds like the optimistic interpretation According to the pessimistic one the IC is just saying: forget about happiness...

Quite worried about this answer, I decided to ask again:
"Dear Yi, what is there to know to clarify your previous response about making my life happy?"
46.0

Pushing upward? Well, the judgement says "Fear not"... that's reassuring at least! Maybe the Yi is suggesting to set myself to work to create my own opportunities to be happy?

Any help will be much appreciated.

 

[Trojina]

Hello, dear Clarity members

The return from Summer holidays inspired a broad (in retrospect, somewhat vague) reading:
"Dear Yi, please tell me what the best way is to make my life happy."
47.3 > 28

Gulp. Oppression / Exhaustion. A very ominous changing line too, according to all the texts I consulted:
A man permits himself to be oppressed by stone,
And leans on thorns and thistles.
He enters the house and does not see his wife.
Misfortune.

Self-inflicted oppression? Inability to see the good around me? Maybe. Imbalance? Afraid so. Renounce? Truly hope not...

I found an interesting insight to the same casting in another reading:

Close to home. It would not be the first time the Yi warns me against my inclination to bash myself... This however sounds like the optimistic interpretation According to the pessimistic one the IC is just saying: forget about happiness...

Quite worried about this answer, I decided to ask again:
"Dear Yi, what is there to know to clarify your previous response about making my life happy?"
46.0

Pushing upward? Well, the judgement says "Fear not"... that's reassuring at least! Maybe the Yi is suggesting to set myself to work to create my own opportunities to be happy?

Any help will be much appreciated.

46 is about growth...growth sometimes involves struggle. Struggle is not always a 'happy' expereince. Feeling lost and without direction is all still part of growth yet not a bunch of fun

Your life is about more than being 'happy', and that word can be defined in so many ways...I would say 46 tells you your life is about growth as all ours are. A seed trying to break through the ground to the light may not experience that as happy (okay not that a seed is happy or unhappy but I can't think of any good metaphors lol)...Happiness comes and goes like everything is subject to change. 47.3 shows you hanging on to some idea of happiness that might not really serve you.

I think happiness comes when you least expect it to...you can't catch it and sometimes its there even when you think it shouldn't be...sometimes it can catch you unawares Maybe your readings indicate it might help to forget the idea of happiness which does not mean at all that you cannot or will not be happy but that happiness is a by product of living and growing as sadness is too. Focus on the living and growing and aspiring and you may find happiness pops up all over the place..when you'd forgotten you were even seeking it.

46 may be asking you to consider what your goals are ? What are your aspirations ? When people are caught up in these they have a tendency to feel fulfilled and engaged with their life....which is one thing that can lead to the feeling of happiness

 

[pocossin]

What is the best way is to make my life happy?
47.3 > 28

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Hexagram pictures: Victim, Ridgepole

The Victim in a sacrifice is reciprocity for spiritual benefits. The sagging Ridgepole symbolizes the special care given to the elderly.

Overall judgment: It's a surprise when the flowers bloom, but you have to plant the seed. Reciprocity and care are essentials of a happy life. Do something for somebody.

47.3
Six in the third place means:
A man permits himself to be oppressed by stone,
And leans on thorns and thistles.
He enters his house and does not see his wife.
Misfortune.

The hard, uncomfortable, and lonely aspects of life are momentarily uppermost.

 

[gato]

Hello, dear Clarity members

The return from Summer holidays inspired a broad (in retrospect, somewhat vague) reading:
"Dear Yi, please tell me what the best way is to make my life happy."
47.3 > 28

Gulp. Oppression / Exhaustion. A very ominous changing line too, according to all the texts I consulted:
A man permits himself to be oppressed by stone,
And leans on thorns and thistles.
He enters the house and does not see his wife.
Misfortune.

Self-inflicted oppression? Inability to see the good around me? Maybe. Imbalance? Afraid so. Renounce? Truly hope not...

I found an interesting insight to the same casting in another reading:

Close to home. It would not be the first time the Yi warns me against my inclination to bash myself... This however sounds like the optimistic interpretation According to the pessimistic one the IC is just saying: forget about happiness...

Quite worried about this answer, I decided to ask again:
"Dear Yi, what is there to know to clarify your previous response about making my life happy?"
46.0

Pushing upward? Well, the judgement says "Fear not"... that's reassuring at least! Maybe the Yi is suggesting to set myself to work to create my own opportunities to be happy?

Any help will be much appreciated.

yi answer: 47.3 if yo don't see the beautiful things around you there is no way to be
happy...

mine: grow your spirit

 

[cris]

Trojan, Pocossin and Gato: thanks so much for your insights. It's so true: focusing on the search for future happiness is the best way to escape the present, thus losing the opportunities it would grant us to be happy now. Once again, these thoughts have sparkled a number of mental associations... Life is wonderful, and we should not wait for a moment to come to acknowledge this beauty and make the most out of it.

This reading was also an accurate reflection of my current state of mind. The end of Summer, and the thought of the long months of hard work ahead have sort of drained me to the extent of feeling physically oppressed, as if under a huge stone (47.3). This reminds me of a funny - and enlightening - experience I had a couple of years ago, when I had an MRI scan. So they shove me into the machine, not before however warning me that there's a button I can press at any time if I feel unwell when I'm inside... miracles of autosuggestion! Despite not being the impressionable type, after 15 minutes or so I feel like I can't breathe any longer: after all the machine is so tight, and there's no more air inside! I hardly manage to refrain from looking a pillock by pressing the button... only to find out by mere chance that the end of the MRI machine above my head is open with air fully flowing inside and outside...!

The Yi might be just saying, open your eyes and look around...

 

[patro]

Gato gave you the correct and easiest answer!

 

[bamboo]

I love Gato's interpretation too! and the story about the MRI. how fitting. This line and this hex, 47, have usually been very comforting....it is such refreshing advice to get off your own case... Realizing that your unhappiness may be more attitudinal than real. I also like LiSe' s interpretation of it about re-finding your own "garden". the times when we feel 47ish are usually valuable, because it can force us to take stock and come back to our inherent joy.

 

[willowfox]

You cannot force happiness to come, its not a thing you can buy down at Sainsbury's, as happiness comes from within yourself, therefore you need to find peace of mind as an agitated mind will only cause further anxiety.

Still your mind and happiness will come.

 

[willowfox]

"Dear Yi, what is there to know to clarify your previous response about making my life happy?"
46.0

What is there to know? That you work towards your goal in stages, changing your attitude and lifestyle by increments, adapting to life's circumstances instead of banging your head against a wall.

Again, it tells you that you cannot go out and get a tin of Campbell's Instant Happiness as it doesn't exist, but you can find happiness through progressive change in yourself.

So, the IC is telling you that your eventual happiness is entirely down to you.

 

[cris]

Patro, Bamboo, WF: thanks so much for your replies.

Going through the thread after few days of "digestion", I now appreciate that the Yi has once again spoken loud and clear. I must admit I still can't really put Hex 28 in perspective however the overall message is evident and just so fitting.

By the way, the Campbell's Instant Happiness is a great idea for a new product Being a food-addict, I can think of so many flavours for that recipe...