Returning to Clarity

[Endless]

Hello Clarity friends-

Is this a good moment to come back to Clarity Community? Yi answered 28.5>32.
I 'd better be alone and not bothering about what others think of me.
Anyway, I wanted to share this with you.
I started reading the forum after some years since I left the community and it has been very useful.
Regards,
Esther

 

[surnevs]

Hi Esther,
As I'm not a diviner I'll leave the interpretation of your reading to you and wish you all well back here.

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[rosada]

Wow, Steppenwolf. No wonder our parents thought we were crazy.
28.5 - 32. could also be referencing Hotel California, "You can check out - but you can never leave [the IC]."
Either way, welcome "back" Esther!

 

[surnevs]

Rosada. here I'm NOT laughing at your interpretation (I was 18 years of age when Steppenwolf released this song and who of us wasn't crazy in 69 ? )


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Add. or was it 68 ?

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[Endless]

Hi Rosada and surnevs.
Today I asked, How to approach the community again? 55.5>49
I interpret the answer as giving it a chance which will pay back in many aspects by changing my attitude.
Thank you all,
Endless Esther

 

[surnevs]

- I always like to look at Alfred Huang's ideographs and sort of meditate on those pictures:

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".....The Ideograph consists of two parts.
The lower part is a cooking vessel. The upper part shows the stems and
leaves of beans. The overall picture is one of flourishing and abundance. ...."
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Alfred Huang, The Complete I Ching, Inner Traditions, Rochester, Vermont 1998

 

[rosada]

I got 55.5 as a comment on Queen Elizabeth's soul being welcomed back to heaven.
Sheesh, hard act to follow! Sounds to me like you're doing the right thing just slipping in quietly through this Open Space.

 

[Endless]

I liked both comments!
Surnevs, that ideograph really excites my senses. I'll put it on my wall.
Rosada, I don't think Elizabeth will have another chance to change her attitude...but, at least, we are still alive.
E.

 

[rosada]

Not sure I was clear - I was trying to say that I've seen 55.5 to mean the absolute pinnacle of earthly achievement - the top of the heap and getting universal attention, which certainly could be appropriate for commemorating Queen Elizabeth's passing, but which might be a bit over the top for advice on how to return to onlineclarity...

Further exploring this line.. I've seen 55.5 to represent peak experiences leading to important life altering decisions which makes sense as 55. is about making crucial choices but I hadn't appreciated before that the first 4 lines are still about considering a decision, that it's not until 55.5 that we get the final judgement - like after the story has been told, will the prisoner be granted freedom or death? The intensity of the change is all exquisitely focused on this one line.

 

[rosada]

I think 55.5 implies a time when one should be prepared to tell their story. Like when you return from a trip and you tell everyone about your adventure. Where you went, what you saw and why you came back. Maybe you could tell us something like that - did you stop posting on clarity for a reason or did you just drift away? What did you learn while you were gone? Did you continue to consult the I Ching or any form of divination? What inspired you to return?
Inquiring minds want to know!

 

[hilary]

Hi Rosada,

That's a tricky one: Endless left because of personal differences with another member, and those are not for rehashing on public threads like this one.

Endless, if you can tell the story just by saying 'personal differences with another member' and then move on to Rosada's other questions -

What did you learn while you were gone? Did you continue to consult the I Ching or any form of divination? What inspired you to return?

- that would be absolutely fine.

 

[hilary]

Esther, please check your private messages and respond to me there.

 

[surnevs]

I liked both comments!
Surnevs, that ideograph really excites my senses. I'll put it on my wall.
Rosada, I don't think Elizabeth will have another chance to change her attitude...but, at least, we are still alive.
E.

I couldn't get rid of this, but in general:
This online clarity-site is a global site meaning that expressions, attitudes, humour etc. have different faces from spot to spot in this world ie. to example humour in the East often differ dramatically from humour in the West - a cherry lovely meant joke from one spot on the Earth could be taken as the opposite on another part of the world meaning that it's important always to add an emoji ( etc.) when being funny in even the most obvious and seemingly harmless way.
Meaning that the member mentioned here could in theory have had the best intentions... (In theory)

 

[hilary]

No analysing other members' motivations on threads, please! You know where that leads.... . I should have closed this thread before - I'll do that now.