Life changes

[siren]

Hello friends,

I hope you can help me (again) with this as I think I got it this time but would like to hear your views as well.

As I have been making radical changes in my life during the past year (which made me very happy), sometimes I find myself in situations that are totally new to me, and I wonder if what I am doing is what I should be doing... if the direction of my life is what it should be or if I am somehow neglecting possibilities. As part of the changes I am doing -they have been done progressively, I also stopped going to church, which was my main source of social activity as I live in a foreign country and haven't done much friends yet, so I find myself being most of the time alone... Don't get me wrong with this, because I like it and I am also very happy for sharing my time -even when it's not too much- with people which I really want to share my time with, but, as I see the days passing, I started to wonder... is there anything I should be doing that I am not doing?

So, I asked "please give me an overview of my life" and I received hexagram 15.

Then, trying to understand better, I asked "what is the current state of my life" and received 49.2 to 43.

I took from this as a perfect picture of what what's happening within myself, but still didn't see "what to do "with it, so I asked "what should I do with this state" and received 21 unchanging... so, I felt it as sticking into it, going all the way.

Still confused about the situation, I asked "what is this change about" and I received 27.1. This response opened my eyes and I looked everywhere for an explanation about this, and I found that, for me, it was telling me that I have been neglecting something in myself, that I didn't see that something in myself and I was looking for it outside, so that it was this change about.... And that if I didn't do it this time, I might loose it - the magic tortoise...

So I asked in the end, what is the magic tortoise referring to in this case? And I received 22, unchanging.

Well, I feel I finally am onto something that could help me to direct this change I am feeling, but still is blurry. Will you be so kind to give me your views and help me to see it more clearly?

Thank you!

 

[meng]

Hi Siren,

I could put into my own words what you've already said, but you've covered the readings quite nicely, imo.

No question, you're going to a seasonal change, bringing about reforms in your life. Congratulations. 22 in regards to the magic tortoise refers to your life force, energy or chi. So I think it says to to leave the lonely valley, and live.

Bruce

 

[steve]

Hi

For a start hexagram 15 is one of the most hardest and unchanging
ok but you are surley modest in your faith not extreme wich in the oraclas eyes is ver commending

simple modesty is and has to be a fine fine quality

I can however help with 49 .2 is like starting a big ants nest,dont start what you cannot finish

43 to me is saying your what you are dont be frightened stand and be relaxed or sit
its hard to understand who you are but according to your own reading you are ok

Steve

 

[meng]

I think modesty can be a pretty misleading meaning for 15, at least the way the word modestly is typically used. To the contrary of meaning meek and/or withdrawn, 15's strengths and talents are self evident, without promotion, without a sales pitch. And even if called to do a presentation or fill a public role, the presentation and the presenter are one and the same.

 

[siren]

Hi Siren,

I could put into my own words what you've already said, but you've covered the readings quite nicely, imo.

No question, you're going to a seasonal change, bringing about reforms in your life. Congratulations. 22 in regards to the magic tortoise refers to your life force, energy or chi. So I think it says to to leave the lonely valley, and live.

Bruce

Thank you, Bruce. Just wanted to ask you for what you mean about life force, energy or chi.


The changes I've done came to my life by "accident", it's not something I was looking for - the only thing I was striving last year is with the knowledge that I was feeling quite dead, while during these revolutions that occurred in my life were an opportunity from heaven to revert this. I mention this based on Steve's comments. It seems that all comes to me and when I feel that I'm going against the wall, there is an opening in that wall that let me pass through... I feel I am being very fortunate.

Now... I am still discovering things and learning, and feel quite alive, but what scare me is that I am most of the time by my own (which I actually like) but seems strange to what is call "normal life". Still, it is beautiful that somehow what I need comes to me, and that the things I always wanted come in the most strange and unconventional ways. Even when I feel that this is the right thing, as I feel so separated of what my life was before and feel like a "temporary" hermit, I wonder if there is anything I should be doing "externally", with people, rather than staying at home and loose myself in these nice feelings of self-discovery. I don't know how to explain it,... perhaps I would like to know if I am deluding myself and am just avoiding going back to "normal life" -when people don't have too much time for themselves. These readings I've done were to search for some kind of confirmation that what I am doing is what I should be doing. Maybe is because I've been for about 7 years without a single moment to be surf within that I feel guilty to be able to do it...

So, I just asked what are the I Ching thoughts about my current behavior towards my everyday life? And I received 6.6... Perhaps this is describing these doubts I have! Even when I receive blessings and blessings, I still wonder if my path is the right one... mmm....

What should I be doing in my everyday's life? 44.1 ...

Do you see here anything I am not seeing? Am I deluding myself or not? (I did ask this now and received 42.4)

I know I am bombarding you with questions... I am just so confused!

 

[meng]

Just surf the wave. If you think about it too much it collapses.

 

[siren]

Thank you Meng and Twilight, yes... I think I am not only asking too much but thinking too much as well. Que sera, sera.... whatever will be, will be...

 

[meng]

Hi Siren,

Oh, I dunno, I believe in playing a creative role in what will be, not really a passive approach to life. But there is a point where we can confuse ourselves, especially when the kind of black or white answer we're looking for doesn't exist on an empirical level. In such a case, we are asking Yi to pander to our laziness and thickheadedness . Which sometimes it actually does! To a limit. We can't forget that we do make up much of our own reality, so if we call Yi to give an account for it, the Yi is likely to point right back to us for our answer.