Lost currency... again!

[cris]

Hello everyone

I've not been on the forum for a while. I hope you are all doing great.

Around a month ago, I did two subsequent trips spending only a few hours home in between. When I returned from the second trip I realized I could not find the currency left over from the first one. (A familiar experience... it occurred to me already in 2010, with the same currency! That time I never found it again. I'm starting thinking this may mean that for some reason it would not be good for me to return to that country...).

I looked everywhere with no success. So I asked Yi where the currency would be and the reply was 33.3 > 12. Tied retreat - a secure place with a lock? The banknotes are not in the wallet or in the suitcase... And what's with the servants and concubines? Could that mean I handed the currency over to one of my fellow travellers - I have no recollection of that...

I would appreciate any help in interpreting the casting and helping me locate the money :bows:

Have a great week,
Cris

 

[kalikari]

Hi Cris,

I think I got a very similar hexagram when my friend lost his ID card. We found it under the car seat we had been traveling in. 12 seems to suggest that it is trapped under something, the line 3 in 33 reminds me of being caught in something or tied down. Could it be inside a book or some papers?.. like a magazine? or a pocket that on the outside of a bag or a jacket?

kalikari

 

[Trojina]

I think the 33.3 is probably more about the circumstances it was lost in. You were trying to leave, extricate yourself from someplace but things were holding you up so you put it down somewhere to get on with trying to leave. Like for example I'm trying to leave the house, I have my money in a purse, the phone rings and the doorbell goes at the same time and whilst I am trying to both open the door and answer the phone I put the purse somewhere strange without noticing what I am doing because I am just trying to get my hands free. Unbeknown to my conscious mind I place the purse inside a deep plant pot .....and then can't find it later. In light of that what you say here

And what's with the servants and concubines? Could that mean I handed the currency over to one of my fellow travellers - I have no recollection of that...

maybe at the point of taking leave of one place for another place things got muddled and a bit too much to handle. It would have helped to have had servants, ie more things to help you make your departure smooth...and this could refer to helpful servants such as lists or reminders and so on. I think you got flustered, needed more support systems in place, like 'to do/to take' lists and mislaid the money in the process.


Generally my impression is lost property threads don't seem to have much success

 

[cris]

Many thanks kalikari and Trojan for your responses.

12 seems to suggest that it is trapped under something, the line 3 in 33 reminds me of being caught in something or tied down. Could it be inside a book or some papers?.. like a magazine? or a pocket that on the outside of a bag or a jacket?

Interestingly enough, that has been my feeling ever since I realized I no longer had the currency. I know I must have taken it out of the wallet, and then probably put it somewhere among the trip-related papers. The problem is I went through them many times since returning from the second trip, in vain. I also looked in the bags I took with me, again to no avail...

I think the 33.3 is probably more about the circumstances it was lost in. You were trying to leave, extricate yourself from someplace but things were holding you up so you put it down somewhere to get on with trying to leave.

That may well be the case. I had to unpack and pack again for the second trip and I must have inadvertently put it somewhere in the midst of other activities... I'm sure I had it when I returned otherwise I would have realized immediately. The question is: where did I misplace it?

So I decided to ask a follow up question:
What should I do to find the lost currency? 30.3 > 21
I don't recall having ever received this line and am trying to find literal clues in it. Sunset? Cooking pots? Old people? I'm at a loss. Or maybe I should just consider the overall inauspiciousness of the line and give up looking for the currency. Or I should only consider the hexagrams... in this case 21 could be the background (the effort of the search) and 30 the actual outcome (clarity as in I'll know where it is... which is even more important to me than the actual money!).

Thanks in advance for sharing your interpretations :bows:

 

[Trojina]

Oh the answer 30.3 in this context shines out to me as a message to stop worrying about it....forget it. 30.3 can be saying 'hey you only live once, don't sweat the small stuff, have a blast'. I hope it wasn't a lot of money...I don't understand any foreign currencies not even dollars.

But yes, I feel the answer is leapfrogging your question to your actual concern which is the most important thing anyway. Your peace of mind is more important than any lost money. I think it is simply lost and 30.3 says don't mourn, bang your pots ! 30.3 is about about how some things are irrevocably lost, like youth or physical strength. What sense does it make to mourn such a natural process. In this way I think your money is irrevocably lost. Don't mourn any longer.

BTW I thought it was irrevocably lost in my first post, I didn't mean you to ask another question. Yi's answers have full intelligence behind them. I felt it was already irrevocably lost from the 33.3...you left it somewhere while travelling. I also think your answers show you shouldn't take this to heart, it isn't a message not to go back to that country....you just lost it. As to what you should do...celebrate life and bang on pots and forget lost things. great answer !

well anyway I hope you find it (even tho that would make me wrong ) but I do think its lost and I do think you need to forget it now

 

[cris]

Thanks for your response, Trojan. I had not seen 30.3 under that light, but now it makes perfect sense. The money's gone forever, just like youth in the line, and now I can only sigh about it. A bit cynical of Yi however hilariously clear! Shame it often takes someone else's insight to remove the veil from the otherwise blatant message (at least in my experience).

Deep inside I've kind of known it was irreparably lost, so this answer is not particularly surprising. Luckily enough it wasn't an enormous amount of money. It was eerily similar to the one I lost in 2010, under somewhat similar circumstances... I'm pretty sure there's a message there to grasp for me... whether highly spiritual or as simple as "put your currency left overs in a safe place asap!"

Thanks again

 

[cris]

12 seems to suggest that it is trapped under something, the line 3 in 33 reminds me of being caught in something or tied down. Could it be inside a book or some papers?.. like a magazine? or a pocket that on the outside of a bag or a jacket?

UPDATE:
I found the money a couple of months ago in an envelope inside a box where I keep all the leftover currency from past trips. I am positive I looked inside the box while searching for it but must have missed it, possibly because it was in an envelope I had previously used for a different currency. So yes, the money was set apart (hex 33) and closed up (line 3). Yi was spot on!!! Bravo Kalikari

Still no idea about the 30.3 tho. Maybe the message was simply to accept the (temporary) loss and move on. A happy ending anyway

 

[anemos]

UPDATE:
I found the money a couple of months ago in an envelope inside a box where I keep all the leftover currency from past trips. I am positive I looked inside the box while searching for it but must have missed it, possibly because it was in an envelope I had previously used for a different currency. So yes, the money was set apart (hex 33) and closed up (line 3). Yi was spot on!!! Bravo Kalikari

Still no idea about the 30.3 tho. Maybe the message was simply to accept the (temporary) loss and move on. A happy ending anyway

I like the underlined as an interpretation of 30.3 - what we miss when attached to the "wrong" ideas and the need to 21 in order to regain the clarity of mind.

thanks for the update. Such 'mundane' examples are extremely useful.