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In part, I believe my wavering faith began when I read Jack Balkin's intro and his assertion that the Yi responses are utterly random and their usefulness is in direct relation to our intuitive faculty, and therefore only valid when they elicit an intuitive meaning personal to us.
BTW, there is a good reason why ancient Chinese diviners used double and triple negatives in their questions to the oracle, any oracle, not just the Yi, and in many instances, if not most, consulted different oracles at the same time (cracking shells and yarrow).
I would like to compile a book of testaments from people who have consulted the I Ching on some matter of importance, and now feel either that the advice they got helped them greatly, in a tangible way, or hurt them, held them back, possibly even destroyed some aspect of their lives.
Explain more, pray tell!!! double and triple negatives??? what does that mean?
i understand the different oracle part, though....I kinda always hope to get 41.5 so that I can rest assured there is nothing I have to do but put my feet up and watch a stellar destiny unfold
In my story, I am certain of this: I wouldn't have been as gentle, nor nearly as patient or forgiving, without deperately probing for an answer which satisfied my understanding, of how this situation could have happened. A friend said she's a black widow, which to me rivaled the best of metaphors found in the Ching. It made clear the distinctions between seduction and courtship; speaking in business terms, not literally sexual, though she did perform the usual preliminary primate sexual rites, they were literally 54.6 (hoping memory serves).
The earlier Yi prediction before the move, "he has no home; he is his home" has never been more literal, and it still is. More so during this still temporary oasis time, which might say it was insisted upon, by fate, and by the two lesbians in their 50's, one who became a "buddy" when I was care-taking the estate, which is now being remodeled for their own retirement and home business, across the dirt road, and her mate of 20-something years. It was her mate who insisted that her mate and a very strong male buddy go and get me. She wanted me here by this long holiday weekend, lol. I stored most of my stuff at the guy's place. These are best friends with another lesbian couple I came to know during my walks with Mojo. The sweetest human beings I've met since living in this valley the last twelve years. Also the strongest and most independent. What they don't have is a sense of militant feminism, and that's why we get along so well: though we are opposed (might refer to the recent 38 thread) in our political views, there's no 39.
All part of the story, another layer. Lessons in humanity.
English, please!
Let me get this straight:
You left 'the cave' you lived in next to the messy neighbors.
You became a caretaker at an estate where the residents were gone most of the year.
This is where I get fuzzy.
It seems you are saying the owners of the estate ripped you off...they were meth addicts?...the woman came on to you?...you felt stranded....friends of your lesbian friends came to the rescue and pulled you out of there.
or am i missing a chapter?
Sorry Mabius for hijacking your thread, but maybe it's all relevant.
..the advice they got helped them greatly, in a tangible way, or hurt them, held them back, possibly even destroyed some aspect of their lives.
Clarity,
Office 17622,
PO Box 6945,
London.
W1A 6US
United Kingdom
Phone/ Voicemail:
+44 (0)20 3287 3053 (UK)
+1 (561) 459-4758 (US).