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I suggest you look at the 'pinned' thread: Positive and Negative hexagrams, by Bradford Hatcher ...Is there a method for interpreting an inauspicious answer when asking for positive feedback?
I like your ideas. I may make a list of ways I've made lemonade from lemons as an exercise that would apply to my 10.6 reading.I wonder if your sensitivity to timing and action has been excellent. Your lines are so much about the courage to either act or not act, to face something something challenging rather than run away. Perhaps in very tempting, triggering, or somewhat restricted situations you’ve not taken the easy option or low-hanging fruit. I think your interpretation of handling things with grace makes sense. Lemons into lemonade? Sort of like taking a compositionally beautiful and emotionally stirring photography of an “ugly” scene. Ugly things are beautiful too, through the right lens. Not sure if that resonates but it’s one possibility.
I never know what to make of answers like this, and there have been many. After recently receiving 10.6 I asked, "What have I done well?" This is a not related to a particular event but a general question as I am closing one chapter and opening another. 62.1.4.6>22.
Is there a method for interpreting an inauspicious answer when asking for positive feedback?
So maybe I didn't do too much well but I did it while maintaining a certain outward appearance?
Is there a method for interpreting an inauspicious answer when asking for positive feedback?
I asked, "What have I done well?" ... a general question as I am closing one chapter and opening another. 62.1.4.6>22.
If I got 10.6 as an answer to 'what have I done well' I'd smirk...Yi's answering tongue in cheek like
'hey you're here aren't you - if you got this far without being eaten you done good'
That's 10.6 for you...but lets get Yi's words
'Observing the footsteps, blessings from the ancestors.
They come full circle: good fortune from the source.'
You've been treading the tail of tiger, it's been a bit scary but when you look behind you you see your footprints leading up to where you are now. Blessing.
Also this line can be very much saying 'you got away with it'.
In general I don't think 'positive' questions' are so great in that they can sort of force Yi's arm like some people ask 'what is the gift of xyz' and then struggle when Yi says there isn't one. But anyway your question is your personal choice, it's important to ask what you feel like asking. But the idea of asking for 'positive feedback' is quite a modern one and Yi is quite blunt, it won't give you something 'positive' if it's not what it wants to say, if it's not helpful or true.
Oh I got the wrong end of the stick you didn't get 10.6 for 'what am I doing well?' you got 62.1.4.6>22 for what are you doing well? (I will leave the 10.6 stuff there anyway)
Well I would imagine you are presenting yourself in some way whereby Yi is asking you to be very careful about how you do that perhaps? 62, painstaking detail here over appearances. But also 22 can be about the narrative/story/appearances we tell ourselves about things.
Without knowing the situation it's hard to know how to apply this. It's possible the 22 is reflecting your question since you are asking Yi for an evaluation, as if you were presenting yourself to Yi and saying 'what do you think of me?'.....and Yi is saying 'Be very careful little bird, stay low close to the ground and make sure you meet and carry this message you have to take out into the world. It's a massive sky and you are a tiny bird and if you meet trouble you better encounter it and deal with it in a very level headed way. If not you could really overreach yourself'. It almost could look like you've gone too far in making an appearance/persona for yourself that you can't keep up with. Like presenting yourself always in your best light with friends or colleagues and not being able in the end to keep it up. It could be saying allow yourself to be more real about what you feel capable of, don't think you have to always very capable if you don't feel it. Line 4 especially, if you are having trouble take very grounded measures to deal with it. You don't want to be saying 'hey I'm fine I can deal with it' if you can't. That does kind of tie into your own interpretation which was
Yi won't fit into your guideline for keeping it positive if it has something to say and I think it's saying it quite urgently with this reading that you mustn't keep on trying to put on a brave/good face if you aren't feeling it as it could cause you to fall eventually.
As I have no clue what's behind the question that's just a jumble of ideas the cast made me think of.
To your general question
No, I think you have to take the answer as it is. You can't twist it into something nice to hear when it isn't. I don't think it's a critical answer, it's not that you did anything wrong you just need to take better care of presenting how things are for you perhaps.
There's no method for making Yi speak a certain way
62 meaning 'it moves through being excessively small'I never know what to make of answers like this, and there have been many. After recently receiving 10.6 I asked, "What have I done well?" This is a not related to a particular event but a general question as I am closing one chapter and opening another. 62.1.4.6>22.
Clarity,
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