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I received hexagram 1 in response to the question "Does he regret losing me?" I have no idea how to interpret this.
I received hexagram 1 in response to the question "Does he regret losing me?" I have no idea how to interpret this.
I received hexagram 1 in response to the question "Does he regret losing me?" I have no idea how to interpret this.
I received hexagram 1 in response to the question "Does he regret losing me?" I have no idea how to interpret this.
I received hexagram 1 in response to the question "Does he regret losing me?" I have no idea how to interpret this.
Yep, I'm inclined toward Listener's view here. I've recently inquired about what a dear friend was going through inside; not for personal gain but to understand more clearly how I might help. If I inquired for sake of my own personal advantage or security, I think Yi would have polarized the response, and speak to my own inner condition.
Much as I hate to admit it, motive is sometimes pivotal.
Interpretations all over the map. My.
Can one/should one ask about someone else's mind/state? Some say yes, some say no, some say kinda-sorta. Some say it's all about oneself no matter what. I am in no condition to figure out if it applies to me, or what my "best self" might be, because in no way do I feel anything positive or creative or forward-looking.
My motivation?...I am in a world of hurt here, trying to figure out what remains true. Only from a point of truth can I go forward.
So, you're saying that if you had asked the same question out of mere curiousity about your friend's feelings, that you would have drawn a different hex, right?
I think motive is always pivotal, as is attitude, the emotion involved, and the level of being of the person asking the question. In a word, sincerity is pivotal.
The more I use the Yi, the more I see it as having a *huge* bias that favors any kind of spiritual learning or action. The more I use the Yi, the more I see each hexagram as being a major spiritual lesson in itself. And if that's the case, then it's going to be most useful when you're using it for some sort of spiritual engagement. (Helping a friend is spiritual, I think. So you got a direct answer to your question.)
Seems an odd question to me, since I don't ask about what's going on in someone else out of mere curiosity. I see Yi as addressing everything on a 'beneficial to know' basis. No hard, fixed rules about it. I try to stay open and grasp something which clarifies the matter.
I agree, except sincerity is a bit too wishy washy of a word for me.
I know of no word more ambiguous and subject to interpretation than the word "spiritual". We have yet to prove that spirit even exists. Spiritual can mean the spirit in which something is intended, or something of the spirit, or of The Spirit, or it can mean something written in stone, like the Ten Commandments or Eightfold Path. I could only try to interpret what you mean by 'spiritual'. Maybe I should ask the Yi, out of mere curiosity.
Yup, par for the course here. I despair sometimes at the complete range of interpretations people get here, both because I wish that people familiar with the oracle would tend to agree more often (I mean, people who are wise almost always agree on the truth, right? So that just means we're not very wise, and therefore not very helpful to the people who come here...) and because it can really confuse people who are sincerely looking for guidance.
"My motivation?...I am in a world of hurt here, trying to figure out what remains true. Only from a point of truth can I go forward."
I believe in a variation of what you've just said. I believe that only by knowing yourself can you go forward. And knowing yourself right now means knowing that extending from the surface of you and going quite a way down, there's a ton of pain. The problem with knowing the truth of that pain is obvious: it hurts and it's hard to keep attention on it; it dazes and dulls you and you need help to get through; it distracts you from your deeper self which is remarkably free of the pain (I mean, I distract myself from my deeper self when I'm feeling fine; I distract myself even more when I'm upset.)
If you're game for it, I'd like to make a request of you, which is also in the nature of an experiment for all of us. I'd like you to ask the oracle how best to handle what you're going through right now, and I'd like you to share the result with us. I'm thinking that there will be a far greater measure of consensus on the interpretation. Would you be okay with taking another chance with us?
Line one was 2 tails, line two was 3 tails, etc. I listed them as they would be if I were writing them down, from the bottom up.
I am one of the 43 million Americans who have no health insurance. What a great country. I do have some sleeping pills, and I do resort to them sometimes, but while I may sleep, I will also be pretty useless for the entire next day. Not because of the pill/dosage being too strong, since I still wake up in the middle of the night yet am able to go back to sleep quickly, rather than gnash and gnaw in my mind and also I wake up at the usual hour. But because they seem to depress the whole physical system as well.
By 'sincere', I mean the attitude which is as far as possible from self-deception. When you're sincere, you're not fooling yourself. When you're sincere with me, you're not trying to fool me or make me think you're something you aren't. Sincerity is like honesty with yourself and with others. It's a powerful force for what the new age often calls 'personal development'. If you fool yourself, you get nowhere.
Or maybe you should have asked me what I meant lol.
I didn't use to like the word 'spiritual', for the same reasons you've listed. But now, I like it a lot. When I use it, it means something like 'related to learning and doing what's necessary to rise to a new and different and better level of being'. Like Hex 46, applied to one's level of being. The Buddha was on a higher level of being than you or me. Anything that we do in the way of learning or doing that gets to a higher, stable level of being is spiritual. So, for instance, watching a movie is almost never spiritual. But keeping a diary might be if it directed your attention inward enough times or intensely enough for you to actually see something about yourself you hadn't seen before - that's knowledge. And if the thing you saw in yourself was an obstacle of some kind - anger, for instance - then any effort you made to weaken or eradicate that anger would be a spiritual effort.
But if you don't like the word, I'm happy to use 'developmental' instead.
Okay, I'm not going to interpret your coin toss, cuz you're using a very unorthodox method that I don't know how to translate.
How is this unorthodox? All I did was throw three coins, 6 times. The first throw is the bottom line, the second throw is the second line, etc. 2T is 2 tails & 1 head, obviously. Likewise, 2H is 2 heads & a tail. Etc.
Since I posted this morning, I have talked with a few friends and it was good to unburden some of my crisis state to them (not on them!) The break-up of the relationship is not the only crisis I am dealing with, but it is the one which cuts my courage to deal with the other.
I also was able to get some truth out of the man in question (yes, James) which has helped me sort out some of the truth and lies. Not all was lies, but finding some of them, things began to make sense. I got about 30 minutes sleep this afternoon and began to digest some of the information. I am beginning to figure out where I am now.
I virtually tossed on this question: "Can I let go now?" and I got 35.5 changing to 12. In Bradford's translation, 35 says "Light is a great antiseptic." And indeed it is, light as knowledge or enlightenment, getting things out in the open.
Now let us see if I can get some sleep.
I virtually tossed on this question: "Can I let go now?" and I got 35.5 changing to 12. In Bradford's translation, 35 says "Light is a great antiseptic." And indeed it is, light as knowledge or enlightenment, getting things out in the open.
Now let us see if I can get some sleep.
Clarity,
Office 17622,
PO Box 6945,
London.
W1A 6US
United Kingdom
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+44 (0)20 3287 3053 (UK)
+1 (561) 459-4758 (US).