Wanting

On the one hand…

…divination with Yi is not particularly about getting what you want. As a wise person pointed out recently in Reading Circle, it’s not life-as-catalogue:

‘I want that person/ this experience/ that possession, so how do I get it?’

We need to be at least somewhat aware of the possibility that maybe we can’t get whatever (or whoever) it is, as maybe this is not for us, or maybe it’s not the kind of thing that can be ‘got’ quite as we imagine.

Talking with Yi has not so much to do with what we want and how to get it, it’s more to do with being introduced – gently or otherwise – to what’s real, and how to inhabit that fluently.

And on the other hand…

…divination with Yi is absolutely about knowing what you want. Not knowing what you want leads to asking questions about your career when you’re expiring from loneliness: distraction-questions, about anything other than the real issue. Or it leads to asking endless questions about what someone else feels and wants, because it doesn’t feel safe to feel or want anything yourself yet.

And all this leads to colossal muddles in interpreting answers from an Oracle that will insist on talking to your whole self, wants and all, when you’re doing your level best to stuff great swathes of that self out of sight.

(I don’t mean this to sound as though we’re asking stupid questions…

There was a time when I thought that asking about someone else’s wants because you never dared to contemplate what you yourself might want was quite stupid, until I noticed myself doing exactly that, and at length. So clearly it can’t be stupid.)

The thing is, knowing what you want is not easy. Life is altogether smoother (not to mention flatter) if we stay on a nice even emotional keel and never find out. It’s just that the more I see, the more it seems that being in touch with what you want – ‘waking up the inner Wanter,’ as I think Pamela put it on her last call – is pretty much essential to divination.

So… in brief, Pamela Moss has another free call coming up. This one is specifically about ‘How to get clear about what matters most’ and has a lot to do with what you truly want. The call’s on Wednesday 26th at 12 noon Eastern time, which is 5pm for me here in the UK.  Have a look at this list to find your local time for the call and then by all means sign up for it. As before, there’ll be a recording (to be released after the call is replayed on Saturday). Pamela can be relied on to provide some solid, useable ideas that make this absolutely worth your time.