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I guess with most actual spells 'terms and conditions apply'
Particularly with the Yi, since it has such a delicious and wicked sense of irony.
Yes, to the general thread question - the Yi was used for spells as well, though I've never heard anything about a separate text. Some time during the Shang people started annotating the bones with "we desire that ..." in addition to "what will be ..."
I think we may be doing far more spells than we think....automatically...in thoughts.
What about the 'offering' then? 'make an offering and you will succeed'? Obviously the offering differs depending on the intention, but does anyone actually do this? if so, what kind of offerings do you make? Yx
Two small bowls are enough if you're offering thanks. Many large beasts aren't enough if you're asking Heaven for bunches of stuff.
For me, those two small and empty bowls, offered as a sacrifice, are an attitude adjustment. What has to go is my self-importance, and the thing I'm all worked up over; the thing that gives me a sense of entitlement, particularly entitlements to how others should be. Sometimes the bowl has an object or person in it: a new guitar, a nice female companion, or hot sex object; the feeling of being unfairly deprived is in there too, next to the cup of entitlement.
So if I'm going to move out of this 'full of myself' state of mind, I have to empty and clean those two sacrificial bowls, before I offer them.
That is when increase can come, when the bowls are empty.
Would appreciate any suggs about whats the most 'calming' line in the book too please thanks! Yx
hmn.
Well she's quite negative, it seems alot to do with 18, from her childhood initially and she's quite isolated at the moment. She's 67, has raised 5 kids and is a bit lost as to her direction from here on out- she talks alot about dying and she carries alot of those stubborn negative ways of thinking that people often do, and they've become so inherent she doesn't really notice she's doing it.
I'd like to 'intend' for her to be able to be happy and to make friends. I think making friends and having social contact is what she really needs. She spends far too much time alone with her own thoughts. Maybe 13?
Ah I see, 'casting' means as in 'casting out'. Got it. I'm sure I can manage that. Thanks for your help Brad!
Yx
Would need to know calming from what to be specific.
The word "casting" in spellwork is meaningful. You don't want to hang on to a spell any more than an archer wants to hang on to an arrow. Break the bowl and walk away. You have to let it go, cast it off, forget about it.
No, she has said this herself to me about needing friends. She's alone and she knows full well at this stage what she's lacking, but is full of doubts because she thinks she's old. everything seems to hold this other thought of being too old to do anything, too old to make friends, too old to start living her own life
I will paint hexagram 8 and intend it her way. Is it vital to get rid of the spell? I was thinking of maybe hiding it in her house or in her bedroom? Is that a very bad idea?
Yx
I believe the hexagram that most clearly speaks to this is h60.
I've been thinking about this all day but can't see it. How does h60 so relate? Is it limitation = self-definition?
In human life too the individual achieves significance through discrimination
and the setting of limits. Therefore what concerns us here is the problem of
clearly defining these discriminations, which are, so to speak, the backbone of
morality. Unlimited possibilities are not suited to man; if they existed, his life
would only dissolve in the boundless. To become strong, a man's life needs
the limitations ordained by duty and voluntarily accepted. The individual
attains significance as a free spirit only by surrounding himself with these
limitations and by determining for himself what his duty is.
Clarity,
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