Old Readings?

[answeredquestions]

Hey you guys..

Was wondering what you guys thought about going back thru old readings? I haven't been Chinging for all that long, probably about 2 years or so. When I first started out I was asking all sorts of questions. Some were more on the serious side and some lighter. Almost everytime I do a reading I think about one of the very first questions that I did and recorded regarding my purpose in this lifetime. At the time I gained insite from reading the Hex's and really just through the symbols that came with it and spoke to me at that time. Since I have been delving deeper into the meanings and the line placement etc., I have noticed that when I get a specific Hexagram, I now see it more complex than before. ITS GREAT. I love the growth that can come from just learning all of the different ways to look at things.

So my question is, do you guys have any insight about going back to a reading? Do you do a re-reading of the same question instead?

My question was In this life, where do I stand and how should I act to make the best possible outcome? Received 59.3.5.6>46.

My wording of questions has always been confusing and weak.. please don't judge

I am always curious about this question and the answer I received. Insight please!

Regards,
Courtney

 

[russell]

I go back and look at old readings from time to time. You can’t redo a reading, the original situation no longer exists. Just like you can’t cross the same river twice. You can look at the results of an old reading and, with the benefit of experience, sometimes see more to it than you did originally. And you can sometimes look back and, with the benefit of hindsight, realize, “So that is what it was trying to tell me,” and maybe be a better listener next time.

In my opinion, your question was much too broad in scope and vague in nature. And it was two questions. Alternatives that I may have considered: “At this time and under these circumstances [fill in the blanks], where do I stand in relation to my (family/ significant other/job/academic major/whatever)?” “What can I expect from this choice of action vs. that [fill in the blanks]?” “What about my motives for making this choice?” “How should I deal with so-and-so’s trying to influence my choice?” You may have actually had questions like this in your head at the time, unspoken/unwritten, and your answer may thus have made sense to you; but I believe that in the long run it is best to come right out and ask specific questions, tease them out of your mind if necessary, and the answers will be more on-target.

Not judging, just saying what I might have done instead . . . .

—Russell

 

[Trojina]

I have big diaries that have everything in from 'to do' lists to shopping lists to poems to recounting my my personal angst, trials and tribulations, joys and catastrophes. I find it helps me organise the chaos of my mind....but I have found keeping them has added bonuses....like going thought a difficult situation recently it kept reminding me of something uncannily similar happening about 16 years ago. It was quite helpful to look back to the old diary of that year and see what was the same about the current situation and what was different...becasue I reckon we live in spirals, often revisiting the same issues in a circular route. It was just helpful emotionally to see what happened in the story the last time around,how it felt then, how it feels different now etc etc.


anyway thats not the question you are asking but i said it becasue these diaries have readings scattered all over them and it is often very amusing to see them.... in hindsight they are either so obvious I think it hilarious I could get nowhere the meaning at the time...or they just appear to be completely and utterly wrong in terms of what actually happened....but yes I often re read the readings to ponder more on what they did actually come to mean. Its quite relaxing because they are in the past you can see more clearly without the angst you had at the time

what is uncanny is if i have a reading I'm stuck with I'll sometimes open old journals at random and come across the exact same casting done maybe 5 years ago...its all very labrynthine and without system but i think I do in a roundabout way get quite alot from perusing old readings...but I do it lazily, recreationally...infact it often makes me quite drowsy

 

[rosada]

That's helpful to know trojan, because the main reason I don't keep track of past readings is because i can't seem to get a file going that keeps them organized. You're saying even though your notes are random they are still valuable.

rosada

 

[pocossin]

That's helpful to know trojan, because the main reason I don't keep track of past readings is because i can't seem to get a file going that keeps them organized.

Organizing a file is a big problem. I used to file readings for others by casting (30 24 John Smith) but haven't found that helpful. I now file by name (John Smith 30 24) and find this method much more useful.

 

[chingching]

well a blog would be a great device. You write entries whenever you want and can call them up from the database by name, date, tag, keyword, or category. You can do similar with basic word file by using search and find function. I suppose you could even use mind map programs somehow too. I write mine randomly in my diary and I remeber where to look back for a certain reading by the look of the page, a doodle a tear on the corner, having written it in big letters or small ones.

I photograph tarot readings.

posting threads in here is a great record too.

Alot of readings I dont record but the ones I do record I feel like I work on more to bring the omen into reality.

 

[Trojina]

That's helpful to know trojan, because the main reason I don't keep track of past readings is because i can't seem to get a file going that keeps them organized. You're saying even though your notes are random they are still valuable.

rosada

Yes, actually i think they are more valuable (to me) than trying some systemised way. Several times I got a big book, divided itinto 64 parts thinking each time I did a cast I'd record it under the hexagram number. But there was a huge mental block there....the mind, our memories and associations...the things that might make us want to look back at a past reading just doesn't work like that. Readings for me are associated with times and events and feelings so putting all 64s under the 64 bit of the book just didn't work...besides which it is incredibly tedious to do. I tend to find if I have an inkling I've had an answer many times for previous things I've got some idea what events they are around and some idea where in the huge library of my autobiographical works they are. And in the process of looking back to that time in the old books I'll often come accross interesting readings I'd forgotten....as well as er interesting shopping lists and real life confessions


I'm not sure who to leave these tomes to when I die ....or what anyone would ever make of them anyway


If Jax is interested you can leave all your notes to him ?