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In short - nothing wrong with yes/no, as long as you don't stop there, because it will limit complex situations to very limited approaches.
My guess is that Yi is indeed playing with you.
Possibly the hexagram 5 you got for the first question was Yi saying, "Just wait - just relax, and wait with expectation - and the answers about your relationship will come in due time" (where "due time" just hasn't arrived yet).
I think I see what you're trying to do with this form of question, but are you kind of saying (in, say, the second example) that if Yi gives you anything other than 24.6, that would mean you are not separating permanently? And also that 24.6 is the only possible way Yi could tell you you have separated permanently?
I agree with Moss Elk that you seem to be telling Yi what to tell you. That just seems to me not how Yi works. For that matter, I don't think it's how conversation with anyone would work. Suppose you were talking to a close friend about this, would you say something similar to her? "If you think we have separated permanently, say 'supercalifragilisticexpialidocious' and if you think we'll have a relationship, say 'mairzy doats'"?
Wouldn't you probably ask something like, "Betsy, what do you think about me and X as a couple?" and let her tell you what she thinks based on what she knows about it?
If you've asked Yi repeatedly about this, and you feel you still don't have a clear answer, it might help to:
- go back to the very first question or two and see if you understand it differently now that some time has passed (I'm often surprised how much clearer a reading is a week or a month later - not to say that always happens)
- look over all the questions you've asked, and see if maybe there's a better, more basic or obvious question you haven't asked
- maybe there really, truly is no definite answer for Yi to give you right now - an analogy might be a close election in which a critical mass of people are undecided, so asking Yi would be fruitless (although Yi might still say something indicating that)
- perhaps make yourself take a break from worrying about it for at least a couple days (a few days...a week...), and then revisiting your readings. Sometimes we ("I" - I know this from my own painful experience ) can get horribly caught up in a pit of urgency to know something, and the first step might be to forcibly yank yourself out of that spiral. Which, granted, can be very hard to do. Maybe start even smaller - tell yourself, "I won't think about this for the next 3 hours." (And of course I'm assuming it really isn't objectively urgent, and I could be wrong about that.)
- ...or something else. It just seems as if you're really getting nowhere, and I truly doubt that coming up with inventive ways of asking will, in itself, help at all. Yi has a mind of its own, remember, and if it isn't giving you the kind of answer you want, there is a reason for that. It might be trying to communicate a different message altogether, or it might simply be that you haven't yet understood what it's told you. Interpreting can be hard. I'm sure we've all been there.
Have you read Hilary's blog post about relationship readings, re-posted here as a forum sticky?:
https://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/fri...42-Blog-post-Advice-for-relationship-readings
I think there are other ways in the Five Arts for something similar... I don't like it a lot, but it isn't impossible...
If you really want to use something at yes/no, you can just take Yang as yes(go ahead), Yin as no(stop).
Liselle thank you for sharing your point of view.
It was just an experiment out of curiosity.
I chose line 11.5 because it shows clearly a relationship and line 24.6 because it shows clearly that there is no return no matter what you do. I decided to ask this way in case yi could make me understand correctly.
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