Sunday, October 30th What would I expect of this day?

[Albatross]

Like a month ago, I read some comment from LiSe about daily readings. I began to experience with that. Trying to stablish a conversation with Yi in the morning. This Sunday I recieved and answert that frightened me. I expected all day to something but happen.

What would I expect of this day? 36.1.4 to 62

The line that was problematic for me is "Being penetrated in the left of the belly". I thought that may be I will lost the day in something useless. But I thought that may someone will become ill. A more positive interpretation what about the hidden bright, that I don't have to do nothing exceptional like the related hexagram 62 said "small things are possible".

 

[Liselle]

Albatross, sorry, but your post is kind of confusing.

• 36.1.2 changes to 46. If your relating hexagram really was 62, then the moving lines are 1 and 4.
• Sunday was yesterday, and the date was October 30th, not the 28th. (Today is the 31st, Halloween )
• Since it was yesterday and yesterday is over, you already know what happened in real life and you don't have to wonder. Do you recognize anything about your day in the reading? Or maybe tell us about your day and we'll try to make some connections.

 

[Albatross]

Albatross, sorry, but your post is kind of confusing.

• 36.1.2 changes to 46. If your relating hexagram really was 62, then the moving lines are 1 and 4.
• Sunday was yesterday, and the date was October 30th, not the 28th. (Today is the 31st, Halloween )
• Since it was yesterday and yesterday is over, you already know what happened in real life and you don't have to wonder. Do you recognize anything about your day in the reading? Or maybe tell us about your day and we'll try to make some connections.

Hi. Really sorry. I don't know what I had in my mind when I wrote this. The change line is 4. And I don't know why I wrote Oct. 28th, it was the 30th

Yes, you are right the day is over. I wonder not because I didn't know what happens yet . My wonder is because when I did the reading it was for me like something bad will happen during the day. The only thing I did, it watchedThe Big Bang Theory and Nolan's Prestige, I cleaning the bathroom, some napping but nothing related with being penetrated in the left of the belly.

I wrote the thread to collect some consideration so I would connect better with the Yi in future readings.

 

[Liselle]

Ah, thanks for clearing up the reading (and editing the title!) and telling us about your day. It sounds like a very nice day, to me.

Now to try to make sense of the reading. I see your point about how it doesn't seem to fit.

You certainly hid your brightness, but 36 doesn't normally mean hiding under the covers just in order to have a lazy day. It normally means more like keeping your brightness hidden from something threatening, so it doesn't notice you and you'll stay safe.

62 - you laid low. That seems perfectly correct...

Sometimes I've thought 36 might mean something like biding your time. In the story, Prince Ji had to hide from the current corrupt regime, but he was waiting for a better regime to come in, which it did, and then he didn't have to hide anymore.

It can also mean hiding away because you feel wounded, or are afraid you'd be wounded if you tried to shine.

By any chance did you lay low because you didn't feel up to doing much? Did you need a mental or physical break? That might fit, if we scale 36's threat down a little.

36.1 is about someone having "a direction to go" so strongly that he flies for three days without eating, no matter what anyone else might say. Does that make sense as maybe what led up to Sunday? (Moving lines are often sequential, so the lowest of them can mean the recent past.) Have you been really busy lately? Had you been ignoring inner voices who wanted some rest? ("Authorities" can been inside as well as outside.)

36.4 - Hilary explains in her book that this line can be about "emotions, sympathies and 'gut feelings'," not rationality. I wonder if it might mean you had an intuitive feeling you needed rest. Had you planned to have a quiet day, or did it just sort of happen?

"And going out through the gate from the courtyard" - could it mean actually acting on a need for a quiet day? I could imagine someone who felt she needed rest, but instead of resting, worried about it to the point of not getting any. Maybe you knew what you needed and actually carried that out of the gate, so to speak, into real life.

(In the huge sea of speculation that is this post, the 36.4 stuff is especially speculative...)


Oh - a bit of connection between 36.4 and 62, just for the sake of noticing. 62, Small Exceeding, is about crossing a line as a small person. 36.4 (and 36 generally) is also a vulnerable person, who in line 4 goes "out through the gate from the courtyard" - also a crossing or transition.

 

[Trojina]

What would I expect of this day? 36.1.4 to 62

The line that was problematic for me is "Being penetrated in the left of the belly". I thought that may be I will lost the day in something useless. But I thought that may someone will become ill. A more positive interpretation what about the hidden bright, that I don't have to do nothing exceptional like the related hexagram 62 said "small things are possible".

Scaling is really important if you are going to do daily casts. That is you must scale the answer to the level and size of the question otherwise you'll end up scaring yourself and it will become and absurd things to do. Many of Yi's answers use extreme imagery, sides being pierced, ears cut off, tangled in thorns. Now, in the course of a day where one is going to do laundry and walk the dog the chances of those happening at full on literal capacity are hopefully slim so you'd be using answers in a toned down metaphorical way.

When I do daily casts I use them as a learning exercise so at the end of the day I can see how things played out.

36.1.4>62 may then be speaking about your energy levels and your wish to conserve energy, both 36 and 62. Line 1 makes it look like quite a degree of weariness and a need to take time to pay attention to your own agenda. Line 4 is often to do with keeping motives hidden and thereby uncovering truths.

My wonder is because when I did the reading it was for me like something bad will happen during the day. The only thing I did, it watchedThe Big Bang Theory and Nolan's Prestige, I cleaning the bathroom, some napping but nothing related with being penetrated in the left of the belly.

Nothing in these readings say something bad will happen but if you take readings that way, as predictions of bad things then don't do daily readings because scary imagery will often come up. You must remember scale of the question and fit the answer to that.

 

[breakmov]

imagine 36.1.4>62 as a response to your attempt to create this conversation with yi using this daily routine.

is it possible that Yi is stressing that this daily routine is not the best option for you?

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[Albatross]

Hi

I really appreciate you all take the time to answer.

Scaling is really important if you are going to do daily casts.

This is an important advice because my porpuse is similar to this "as a learning exercise so at the end of the day I can see how things played out". I am trying to build a stronger connection with Yi, try to addapt my way of thinking so I will become a better listener.

scary imagery will often come up

If I will be really disconnected with the imagery of Yi and all the reading will be scary, like you said.

Had you been ignoring inner voices who wanted some rest? ("Authorities" can been inside as well as outside.)

After I read this, I was thinking that this inner voices don't have to be "good authorities" only that kind of voices when you compare yourself with other people "Are you sure John would do that? Are you sure Jane would expend the day in this way?", that voices may wound the brightness of the day.

is it possible that Yi is stressing that this daily routine is not the best option for you?

And may be that interpretation is nearer with this idea in the line that, Yi is not necessarilly disapproving the routine but the voices I let in to obscure the way I let the day happen.

this line can be about "emotions, sympathies and 'gut feelings'," not rationality

May be it's not related with the interpretation of this reading, but that is the way I try to scale the daily readings; I pictured that Yi is telling a general state of mind that I must consider during that day. But in this reading the line of 36.4 was really strong and I lost perspective.

 

[IrfanK]

Now, in the course of a day where one is going to do laundry and walk the dog the chances of those happening at full on literal capacity are hopefully slim ...

Haha. I guess it depends on your neighbourhood.

 

[Trojina]

Yes, there could be some casts that are as bad as they sound.

I've used daily readings sometimes to get unstuck, when my energy feels stuck and so I'm divining just to feel out the nature of the day.

I recall a 43.2 cast I did after noon one day where someone came knocking on my door calling out in the evening and it was the wrong door...or something. And the same evening I got alarming messages of some kind on my laptop which turned out to be nothing to worry about.

But if daily casts start inhibiting a person going about their day they are more trouble than they are worth.


"Sorry boss, can't come in to work today"

"Why not?"

"I cast 60.1>29 I'm not going out"

 

[Liselle]

Good point, and 60.1 is a good example. In a case like that I think I'd ask another question. After all if Yi really was trying to warn me my car would be broadsided (or something), 60.1 would be a reasonable cast for that. I wouldn't want to wake up in traction with the 60.1 in my head. Don't overreact but also don't underreact, either.

Agree though that if open readings mostly cause paranoia and anxiety it's better not to do them. (Time and experience does help, scaling becomes more second-nature.)

I've used daily readings sometimes to get unstuck, when my energy feels stuck and so I'm divining just to feel out the nature of the day.

 

[Trojina]

Good point, and 60.1 is a good example. In a case like that I think I'd ask another question. After all if Yi really was trying to warn me my car would be broadsided (or something), 60.1 would be a reasonable cast for that. I wouldn't want to wake up in traction with the 60.1 in my head. Don't overreact but also don't underreact, either.

That would defeat the object as would extensive interpretation. Daily casts should not be faffed over very much and if you had to ask another question about a daily cast that would be faffing.

I think you would be better off not doing daily readings as you'd get anxious imagining the worse, asking more questions, and then what would be the point. I don't think like that - that 'oh it could be a warning of something bad' if you're going to think that way just don't do daily readings. Daily readings should always be faff free, they don't last long.

 

[Trojina]

I should make clear this was a joke

But if daily casts start inhibiting a person going about their day they are more trouble than they are worth.


"Sorry boss, can't come in to work today"

"Why not?"

"I cast 60.1>29 I'm not going out"

That is I think it would be ridiculous to not go to your job because of that.

Thought I had better say as some might think I was serious.

 

[IrfanK]

That would defeat the object as would extensive interpretation. Daily casts should not be faffed over very much and if you had to ask another question about a daily cast that would be faffing.

I think daily readings are a bit like reading and contemplating a piece of poetry. Not so much a weather forecast, but more ... well, just something to contemplate and take with you as you go on with your day.

 

[Liselle]

Dear all...

People actually do have terrible mishaps, and lo and behold those happen on a particular day. If today is the day, and you do a daily reading for today, and if having a terrible mishap today is not required by your life path or something, Yi might mention it (!).

I don't think daily readings are guaranteed to be faff-free any more than any other reading. Yi will tell you what's important, period.

I agree that the shorter the time frame, the more everyday / commonplace / whatever word you want it's likely to be. Statistics are on your side here. Just not necessarily. I can think of morbid examples but let's not get into them. There are surely also nice examples.

I wouldn't call off work in a knee-jerk way after 60.1, either. I'm not saying anyone should.