What is afflicting me? 44.1.2.4.6 to 63

[emilia_ro]

Hello everyone,

I've been feeling down and out of myself lately, more anxious than usual, and quite lost as to what the next step in my life should be. A family member of mine told me someone had given me the evil eye, which is a popular belief where I come from. I decided to consult the I Ching and ask what was afflicting me.

Now, I'm not sure how to interpret it when there are four changing lines. According to the research I did: "If there are four moving lines, consult only the upper of the two nonmoving lines.". I would like to know your thoughts on this.

Thank you!

 

[Trojina]

According to the research I did: "If there are four moving lines, consult only the upper of the two nonmoving lines.". I would like to know your thoughts on this.

That's sheer nonsense best disregarded.

If you have 4 moving lines then you have 4 moving lines you don't then go and look at lines that don't change.

You can see 4 lines changing as progressions through the story of what's happening.

There are good free learning resources here that will be much more use than following those bizarre methods of reducing moving lines.

Also you can see the change patterns the lines make which tell you something

In general the more lines that change the more useful it is to zoom out and look at what sentence the two hexagrams make together. The more change lines there are the more actively the answer is changing to the relating hexagram so that comes to the fore. Also the more change lines there are the less emphasis you need to place on each one, better to get a big picture rather than focus too much on each line.

So you asked what your next step in life should be and got 44.1.2.4.6>63

Change patterns here are yang 38, yin 39....you need not worry about change patterns as a newbie it may be too much info but I like to look at them. To me it is telling what the theme is of the reading, what made you ask. The themes look to be around feeling an outsider making quite a lonely venture. So that is when you sat down to ask you were asking as someone who was experiencing some alienation and thinking there was a way to move forward out of it.

When you asked this you were possibly feeling everything was wrong and nothing was right and there was something you had to do to change things. I suspect this dissatisfaction is not really yours ...it's like maybe others have suggested you need to xyz but I think you might question that, question where your belief comes from that there is this brand new next step that's going to change everything.

I don't feel this is telling you what your next step should be I think there's themes through the reading of needing just to settle down a bit. It's like you've been disturbed from the course of your life, maybe others plant dissatisfaction in you, people might ay things like 'oh you should be doing this, you should be travelling, you should have a better job, my cousin earns a lot money in another country' all that kind of thing which can make one feel bad about one's life. But it is your life and you are where you are and 44 just makes me wonder how much of real dissatisfaction is yours or comes through comparison to others lives?

I just get the impression you would do better to stay where you are in your own life with things as they are and let things develop at their own pace. What's afflicting you is a kind of restlessness that you really ought to be someone else in another life doing other things ......consider you are right now where you are meant to be (63) and no major disruption of your life is necessary at this time. Things may be brewing (44.2) but the creativity you want to express in your life needs time and possibly less disruption than the world is telling you now ?

That's my current take on it - it may not fit your situation exactly but I don't think this is the time to make bold ventures outward (39 yin pattern also) but just to be with where you are now and work form there being aware there's lot of influences that can make you feel all wrong for being who you are where you are doing what you do...they are the 44 influences - that advert or that friend that pokes you in the ribs implying you really to be someone else. You can say 'no thanks, I'm here and I'm me and this is okay.' Sometimes it helps to remember you are the right person in the right place exactly where you are, where life itself placed you, even with all the challenges that brings.

 

[emilia_ro]

Hi Trojina,
Thank you very much for taking the time to respond to my reading. Your words have deeply resonated with me and it will take me a few days to let them fully sink in. Especially the following words have clicked with what I'm going through right now:

Things may be brewing (44.2) but the creativity you want to express in your life needs time and possibly less disruption than the world is telling you now ?

Thanks again, and have a wonderful weekend!