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JoeCampbell

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Dear All

Perhaps I should be wiser than to even contemplate this question. After all, the relationship I asked about ended in June, as written about in a previous post. Then I met someone new and that is progressing very well - lots of love and joy and light.

But then today a mutual friend of the ex- contacts me and mentions her name and all kinds of sorrow rushes to the surface. And I reminisce (no doubt deleting all the co-dependency and the pain) and I miss her and I wonder if she misses me and if one day we will find each other again.
In the kind of half-hope that I would receive a resounding NO! I asked the question: "Would a relationship with P be good for me?" and got 9.1.2.3.6 > 8.

Now that's a lot of changing lines and I'm never quite sure how to deal with that, but here's a take on it with a special focus on Hilary's "Sequence".
"Seeking Union naturally has occasion to tame things, and so Small Taming follows".
Could this actually be about my current relationship - I have chosen who I belong with and now I need to begin the detailed work if the potential is to be realised? That does actually feel right (despite the sorrow in the background.

But then there's the literal interpretation of the actual answer to the actual question:

Small Taming - clouds gathering, but no rain, working slowly, steadily cultivating oneself (for what I wonder?). The build up of pressure (is this the grief I feel, the uncried tears?).
Line 1: you returned to your own path (the relationship ended)
Line 2: circumstances have forced you back to your own path - this is actually a blessing
Line 3: strain/stress - the centre cannot hold - more emotional intensity than the structures for communication can sustain (you are holding back the grief and it needs to be released, not just glossed over?)
Line 6: Cloudburst - the rains pass, the tears have been cried and the energy is there for life to grow.

If someone were to say to me that this interpretation is correct, I would be relieved - because it frees me to love again freely. But my confusion is that I didn't ask about my current relationship - so what is it that Yi is answering here?

Any responses very much appreciated while I contemplate the rolling tide of feelings.
All the best

Michael
 

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Hi Michael.

When there's that many moving lines, I usually concern myself with just the text for the hexagram.

9 says that you've progressed since the break up, but getting news of your ex is setting you back.

8 is associating with another/others.

I would take this as focus on the relationship you're currently in. It's helped you move on. Keep moving on with whom you are with now.
 
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9.1.2.3.6 is one of the most difficult readings to interpret. There are so many possible meanings that it makes it very difficult to say anything for sure. It's due to the nature of the hexagram 9, which can describe lies, as well as makeup or invisible things.

So, if there is an invisible problem you get 9. That's why it's very difficult to interpret.


"Would a relationship with P be good for me?" and got 9.1.2.3.6 > 8.

So, 9 is your starting point, there is nothing visible, so no good to expect from the starting point. But you have changing lines, and the outcome is 8, so it makes one wonder about it.

9 - Appearance

Something is not yet visible.


1 - One resists.

2 - One sees that it won't last and leaves with sadness.
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3 - No one is going in the same direction.

6 - One succeeds in convincing, but for now should be satisfied with what they have obtained.
In the making
8 - Sharing

Sharing a common vision. Hesitations can lead to regrets.

I can't interpret this without follow-up questions.

Something is not yet visible.
->What is not visible?

One resists
->Who/what is resisting?

One sees that it won't last and leaves with sadness.
->What is not going to last?

No one is going in the same direction.
->What is the first direction?
->What is the second direction?

So you can ask those follow-up questions and we can try to sort out this reading, otherwise very difficult to interpret.
 

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Thank you taoscopy - I am wondering what you mean by follow-up questions.
I assumed it was to ask the Yi those questions - so here come the results:

- what is not visible? 19 unchanging
. who/what is resisting? 16 unchanging
- What is not going to last? 44.2.4.5.6 > 15
- What is the first direction? 2.4 > 16
- What is the second direction? 64.1.2.6 > 51

Hope I understood you correctly and thank you

regards
Michael
 

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Michael, I agree with your interpretation and Wind's one too.
Lines 1 and 2 say return to what you have now.
Lines 3 and 6 warn about further action with P.

h9 - There's little energy, nothing to do but accept what you have right now. Nourishment of the small (current).
Opposite of 9 is 16 - enthusiasm.

And h8 is about witnessing, not letting some part of you to dominate. About being equal to others, joined by a shared interest in one another. So concentrate on the present and stop planning and scheming :)
 

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Bingo! There's something here about my getting dragged into stuff by the reappearance of the mutual friend.
Stuff I was fine without.
Thank you Wind and Ashteroid - my new lady is a wonder, and it saddens me that I let myself get dragged away, albeit briefly.
Thanks again for the sanity check!

All the best
Michael
 

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9.2, Daniels: You need to be dragged away from further harm.

:)
 

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