Comments on: I Ching readings for relationships

By: marlene

marlene — Sun, 05 Mar 2006 19:26:59 +0000

will be me and Marcus having a love affair and will it be regularly?

By: Marie

Marie — Sun, 26 Feb 2006 01:30:32 +0000

…Does our “past life” karmic debts carry forward and connect to our current patterns in this life time?

By: Hilary

Hilary — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 11:22:35 +0000

Thanks Simon, thanks Timothy. That’s a really good question - “What kind of friend am I being?” I guess it would take considerable courage to ask it, too, knowing that - as you say - the oracle is not going to tread delicately around your feelings.

By: Timothy Conger

Timothy Conger — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 10:48:47 +0000

With any friendship I have, particularly if I would like it to go in a romantic direction and the stubborn thing is or is not going in the direction I would like, I ask the I if I am being a true firend to my friend. Usually…Well, how good a friend I am to a friend is going to vary a lot even from one day to the next but for me I feel it’s the ground I need for any divination on the subject. Usually my question is, like Marianne Williamson says, “What is the situation between me and Elsbeth?” or whomever. It’s not the most lofty of questions and it has a ring of the obsessive about it but it’s really quite clear. The question is really, “What would this relationship look like to a neutral third party?” But then you get the answer you get anyway and the oracle doesn’t fuss much about hurting the querent’s feelings, as we all know well. That’s the comment I offer from my own practice, at least today.

By: Simon

Simon — Sat, 18 Feb 2006 04:09:56 +0000

Absolutely. Your words are poignant. I’m compelled to reply to you to say that this is an important understanding to be sharing with others. Anything which encourages the enquirer to reach within rather than look outwards must surely go to the heart of the matter. In my humble experience, it seems the I Ching is better able to articulate answers that are based upon what the enquirer should/could/might do than to those questions based upon things external. And is this not the classic relationship issue, repeated perpetually, that people look for answers in others rather than finding the independence or interdependence of being bale to find these answers and assuredness in themselves.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts.