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Well, that was sort of my question about if it is valid to ask about somebody else rather than myself -- the 10-14 turned up in response I asked about James' true feelings about me. In willowfox's analysis, I am the tiger that James might tread on, the one who would bite. You are saying that I am the treader of tails and could get bitten. Who is the tiger? Who is the subject of the hexagram? Is it like some say about dreams, that it is all about oneself, no matter who is the actor in the dream? Thus if I ask about someone else, does it still turn up about me -- can I only call upon the I Ching to express wisdom for myself?
Well, that was sort of my question about if it is valid to ask about somebody else rather than myself -- the 10-14 turned up in response when I asked about James' true feelings about me. In willowfox's analysis, I am the tiger that James might tread on, the one who would bite. You are saying that I am the treader of tails and could get bitten. Who is the tiger? Who is the subject of the hexagram? Is it like some say about dreams, that it is all about oneself, no matter who is the actor in the dream? Thus if I ask about someone else, does it still turn up about me -- can I only call upon the I Ching to express wisdom for myself?
I know I couldn't be that laid back about it and I certainly wouldn't buy the 'in the moment' notion, not deep down anyway, it would be a 'line' I was spinning myself. Only young children have to be that 'in the moment'.
our inner truths. Having to do with the connection between our inner and outer expressions in our lives. Possibly, his long distance job away will help you to mesh the two aspects important to you together. Whether or not the inner truth of love can live with the inner truth of "Where is he?!"throws one back on themselves,
I'm going to have faith in my first gut reaction to 61 -- it was unchanging and obvious (even to someone with the clairvoyance/intuition of a cinder block such as I )
No, but if the triples are opposite of how I have been doing them...then in the example of 59 -> 10, it would be 10 -> 59. Thus trojan's interpretation would be more correct than willowfox's, in this case.
As it is, willowfox interprets the tosses according to my "half-full" view, while trojan interprets the tosses according to my "half-empty" fears. Or rather, trojan voices my niggling doubt as my Inner Truth.
Well, now I am quite unsure of what's what. I think I'm going to have to simply believe in the original 61 unchanging (at least I can't have messed up the unchanging hexagrams...) Mostly because of the deep sense of "rightness" and strength I felt when I read it. The only thing I can truly know is how I feel.
But for future divinations about other subjects (I have told myself sternly to stop asking about this one!), what I am reading here is that no matter how I toss the coins, as long as I maintain a
consistent recording system, my intentions behind the question will be answered. Is there any difference then in simply sticking one's finger in the book and taking whatever it strikes as a portent, much as some people do with the Bible or Qur'an? Because we are trying to delve into our own universal wisdom, which is inside each of us (ala Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz) ? Or swirling the tealeaves and seeing what can be seen? Or pictures in clouds? I don't mean to sound disparaging, because I in fact believe in the universal validity of whatever system suits the individual, and who am I to say for someone else this is true but that is not ?
Though I am a "cinder block" , I am an intellectualizing cinder block.
Sorry to state the obvious but it seems a real pity you can't have a real open talk about this with him. I reckon persistent niggling doubts are never there without a reason, they are there to protect you in the long run - once they are addressed they can't niggle.
Beithe, the state of our being is often better than the state of the perception of our being.
This evening I was looking at various websites about I Ching, and I came across this one
http://www.ichingwisdom.com/IChingWisdom/hexagrams.html which has the following method of coin recording:
3 tails - 2 + 2 + 2 = 6 ___ X ___ --> _______Yin line that changes to Yang
2 tails, 1 head - 2 + 2 + 3 = 7 ________ Yang line that does not change
2 heads, 1 tail - 3 + 3 + 2 = 8 ___ ___ Yin line that does not change
3 heads - 3 + 3 + 3 = 9 ____O___ --> __ __ Yang line that changes to Yin
Which therefore has the triples counted as I have always done, but then 2 tails are called yang and 2 heads are called yin, and that is the opposite of how I have done them. So that is a third system...and yet, some of you are saying it doesn't matter, as long as I keep to one consistent system??
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