"Aha!!" Answers - little chat, just post your favourite or encouraging results

[Tim K]

Today I've eaten something that i know is bad for me, and of course an hour later (instant karma!) I felt a strong headache.

So I asked Yi: "Why I'm feeling so bad??"
10.1.4.6(Treading carefully) -> 29(Danger/water)

Crowley:
1. Follow the path of thine accustomed right;
4. Tread on the tiger's tail; he will not bite.
6. Examine well, the augury of the flight.

1) You have deviated from your simple way of eating ( Only raw fruits and vegetables and occasionally some low-fat cheese )
4) You have read the label, and it said 56% fat cheese, why have you eaten it?
6) Daniels, line 6: Look carefully at the effects of your actions.
A-ha!

Internal hexagrams were also precise: 37 (Rules/order) -> 27 (Nourishment)
Look carefully at what you eat, silly! Why break the rules?

 

[Trojina]

1) You have deviated from your simple way of eating ( Only raw fruits and vegetables and occasionally some low-fat cheese )

It's not usual to challenge AHA moments posts....but I don't agree with your interpretation because this way of eating cannot be good for you ?

You need protein. You cannot stay well on only raw fruits, vegetables and a tiny amount of low fat cheese. If there is a danger here it's your unhealthy diet.

With lines 1 and 6 moving the relating hexagram comes to the fore IMO. You are endangering your health. Eat some fish or meat or eggs or beans, pulses, nuts. Maybe read up on basic nutrition. You do need some protein in a healthy diet.

ETA you mentioned lines in your nails a few posts back. This might be because you are getting little calcium or other fundamental nutrients for healthy nails.

 

[Tim K]

I know that my diet seems radical and strange to many people, thanks for your concern trojan.
You should have seen the face of a chocolate and sweets shop owner in Brugge, when she offered me to taste some chocolate candy for free (1 Euro a pop), and I said " Naaah, thank you" I just don't eat anything that contains sugar.

But i've been on this diet for 3 years and only feel better.
And about a bump on the nails - it has almost reached the tip of the nail. It was from trauma of falling on the *ss.

Anyhoo, I drank a glass of water, and took a walk, the pain was uncomfortable, and I feel good now.

Anytime I eat something 'dead' and fat I get this feeling. The avocados contain a high amount of fat, but they don't cause me any trouble.

Please don't worry

People have told me that my teeth and hair will fall out. That i would die etc..
But here I am, alive and kicking

Ok so I have done a reading just now ( I did them before and Yi always has supported me)
"How will my diet affect the body in 5 years?"
42.1.4.5 -> 35 (Progress)
and inside: 23.3.5.6 -> 39 (Stripping all the old blockages)

Daniels:
1. You have the capacity to do important work.
4. You are in a position to advise and influence.
5. Act virtuously, for the benefit of others.

I will act and show others the way

 

[Trojina]

I'll try not to.....worry that is.

 

[Liselle]

13.4 as good defense

A friend and I had arranged to do an errand, but she'd have to phone me when she had gotten some missing information. In the meantime, we were both in our respective homes.

I knew I'd have some time before she phoned me. (The information she was waiting for depended on other people doing things, and wouldn't be available right away.) I asked Yi, "What if I do [a task] in the meantime?"

Yi answered with 13.4 > 37.

'Bestriding your city walls,
No one is capable of attack.
Good fortune.'

This wasn't the direct answer I'd expected (some form of "Yes, you have time," or "No, you don't have time"). But after thinking about it, I realized Yi was giving me general advice on appropriate behavior.

As it turned out, I probably would have had time. But I knew that when my friend called me, we'd have to leave immediately. So having time or not wasn't the point - Yi was telling me that when people are depending on me, don't take unnecessary risks that could jeopardize the situation. In this case, it was best to just wait for her call and be ready to dash out the door, rather than risk being in the middle of doing something else that could delay me.

So when I get 13.4 in the future, I'll ask myself, "What would be the best defensive action? What would best prevent something bad from happening?" And never mind if no progress is made.

 

[svenrus]

Hey Lisa, it's allways good to see as many different views on hexagramreading as possible but what took away my attention so that I hardly saw Your posting was that You joined Onlinewithclarity on september 1970 ??? At that time Bill Gates hasn't hardly started Windows/Microsoft. Well, OK, I have now got my time to concentrate on Your posting.
Hex. 13 line four reads: "Enemies RIDE up to THE WALL, but CANNOT ATTACK. AUSPICIOUS" [Gregory C. Richter: http://grichter.sites.truman.edu/files/2012/01/yjnew.pdf]
- and: "He climbs up on his wall; he cannot attack. Good fortune." [Wilhelm/Baynes book I].
I see a vast difference between Enemies ride up to the wall - and: He climbs up on his wall.
I don't think that it's about defensiveness but maybe rather that You shouldn't care about problems because the hinderings ain't there.
- Or: it would had been OK to do Your things while waiting for her call....
Your quistion that day seemed to me a typical "Shall - shall not ?"- quistion and it's interesting that the resultant/secondary hexagram was about the home (h. 37).

Well, I know that my response on Your experience is a little "out of timing"; but am I wrong ? Could You actually had reached Your doings before she phoned that day ? Or did she phoned You so shortly afterwards that it was obvious to You that You couldn't have reached Your doings ?

 

[Liselle]

Hi svenrus,

The 1970 join date was some sort of glitch in a previous version of the forum software, or a glitch caused by importing member records into a new version of the forum software, or into different forum software altogether...something like that. Hilary posted an explanation but I don't remember the details. You are correct; it definitely does NOT mean the year 1970!

As to whether I would have had time: probably, if I'd hurried, but it would have been close, and there would have been some risk of missing her phone call altogether, or of being slower to leave my apartment. I eventually took "attack" to mean an attack on our plans. How could I best be "on [my] wall" (spend my time) so that nothing could "attack" (disrupt) the important errand?

[Edited to add: "Enemies ride up to the wall" - I agree there are different tones depending on the author's wording...I think here it might mean that the enemies (the potential delay) got dangerously close - I almost made a harmful decision.]

The hex 37...I see what you mean, and I thought the same thing in the beginning. The activity wasn't technically a household chore (like washing dishes or something), but it was something I wanted to get done so I wouldn't have to do it later. I finally concluded its meaning was more like what Wilhelm says: "THE FAMILY shows the laws operative within the household that, transferred to outside life, keep the state and the world in order." I'd be keeping order better by not doing other things. Wanting to do so was selfish on my part, and not what would take the best care of the "family" (in this case, my friend). And I didn't just sit staring at the phone. I occupied myself on the internet. So I was doing something, just nothing that would hinder me.

[Edited] Oh, and Svenrus, I appreciate you thinking about my reading...but if you'd like to say more about it, would you mind sending me a private message? This isn't really a discussion thread, and I don't want to derail it .

P.S. For anyone clicking on svenrus's link - remove the bracket character at the end (the "]") or you'll get a 404 - File Not Found error.

http://grichter.sites.truman.edu/files/2012/01/yjnew.pdf

 

[moss elk]

Last Saturday I received a reading of 6, kinde 5.
Having some 'unpleasant' 6 experiences in the past,
I was watchful throughout the day.
I helped a friend move his belongings that morning,
In preparation for his move 1000 miles away
In the evening a group of friends got together to send him off
At a pub. We had a few drinks, and the friend going away had
More than the rest of us. Everyone seemed joyous.
At one point I was looking around the room people watching and was facing away from the standing table
Of friends. I turned my head back to face my friends, and suddenly felt a fist smash into my face.
The soon moving friend has 'sucker punched' me without provocation with all his might.
My eyeglasses hit the floor. i was shocked of course and quickly bent down to pick up the glasses before the crowd stepped on them. i felt much anger swell up in me and quickly walked away to the far side of the room so i could breathe it out. After about 30 seconds i felt calmer and walked back. The friend who had struck me was glaring wildly as if he was ready to fight. I demanded to know why he had done this. I asked if he wanted me to hurt him. He said maybe he did. I reached around his shoulder and hugged him into me. He started crying like a baby and buried his face in my chest. I hugged him there while he weeped. After a moment I released him and the group decided it was a good time to leave the place. We put him into a taxi to get him home.
I wish to point out that we are not a rowdy crowd, and I never imagined anything like that ever happening, especially from him. I consider him to be a good and principled man.

Throughout the day I wondered if something was going to happen and if an impartial person was going to step into some situation I was in. (That's how I initially interpreted line 5)
But, in hindsight I believe that I was the person described in the line.

His mother had died within the last year and I had been suspecting for a while that it had greatly affected him, that he was still grieving, even though he claimed not to be. i believe that the good fortune to come from this is that hIs heart will be healing now.

 

[Yasmin]

Sharing a clear health reading: 7UC as immunity

I thought I'd share this reading because I found it so incredibly clear, to me at least!

I'm in the middle of a demanding project, with tight deadlines for another 2 months or so.Then I woke up with a sniffle... Being self employed, I can't afford to lose much time to a cold at the moment. So I asked:

1- what is the outlook for my health over the next few days? 41UC . Darn! Decrease unchanged! Not good...

2- how can I avoid decrease? 7UC: discipline, marshalling my resources to prepare for war (against germs) poisonous drugs as a last resort (funny how I had never noticed that line in the commentary before)

3- what if I get flu vaccine? (Bearing in mind flu and cold is not the same thing. flu would be a real set back at this time...) : 29.5>7 I will have done all I could, flow out of annual danger, no time for great works, moves to 7 again

And I had an aha moment: In this context, 7 is all about strengthening or generating an immunity! So, the overall reading says to me: be sensible, don't over exert yourself, plenty of fluids and vitamin C, if you are worried about flu, get a shot, you will have done all you could to strengthen your immunity.

 

[anemos]

In this context, 7 is all about strengthening or generating an immunity! .

I like that !! thanks for sharing. makes sense

 

[sooo]

I once asked an always happy and unshakable old friend during a rather joyous gathering of friends, "Jerry, if you were to punch someone, who would it be?" He smiled his usual smile and answered, "you, Bruce." Shocked at his reply, I asked him, why me? He answered, "Because you are my friend; you'd understand." I'm glad it was only a hypothetical question and answer.

 

[moss elk]

Well,
As much as it pains me to admit my error in judgement....(transformed hex 64)

The 'friend' in question turned out to be an a-hole.
A genuine grade A a-hole.

I spoke with him on the phone a couple days ago and expressed my concern that I did not feel he was
taking responsibility for his actions on that night, that he was trying to sweep it under the rug. His response was to tell me that he has gotten violent before when drunk. (Gee thanks for telling me beforehand) His next response was to get angry and try to blame me for his behaviour. (Really? You sucker punch me and it is My fault?) After a few minutes of this I told him i had to go and hung up the phone. This guy considers himself to be a practicing Catholic and a practicing Buddhist. I consider him to be a practicing A-hole. Good luck with that, and good riddance.

 

[hilary]

I think the 64 in that reading says 'not completed'. That’s the only 'winning position' in an argument - the one that's never finished, never committed to a position, always mobile.

I still think your original interpretation was spot on, and you did manage to make yourself the 'great person' for the occasion. (And with Hexagram 6 I wouldn't normally expect to be able to manage that.) The nature of his personal practice doesn't make any difference.

 

[moss elk]

Yes,

I apologize if I offended anyone's practices.
I honestly did not mean to.

I guess I was just ranting and trying to point out how people can have a superficial 22 connection to any practice but believe themself to have otherwise.

Thank you for pointing out my error.

 

[hilary]

Good grief, no offence. I was just observing that his behaviour or indeed his practices - you mentioned three - don't make a difference to the reading.

 

[Liselle]

This isn't a line aha, but one that's a good example of how the primary and relating hexagrams can work together, and also a bit of a process aha.

"What store should I go to, to buy this?" (I asked this seemingly silly question for an actual reason, lol.)

56.2.4.5 > 57

It meant "gentle" (hex 57) "wanderings" (hex 56) - how to make the trip easier.

At first I thought it just meant which store is closer, but there are a couple of equidistant options. Then I remembered that I couldn't do this errand without first doing a different errand, and one of the stores is closer to the prerequisite. That store is the easier option.

I think there was also an implication in this reading. The reason for asking the question had nothing to do with convenience. All of the possible stores are really quite close by, so there isn't much convenience to be gained regardless. I'm sure the Yi knew all that. But I think this was its way, maybe the clearest way it had, of pointing to the store that was best for the more significant reason.

As I type this, it all seems obvious: it told me which store by describing one of them. Duh. But at first I thought only of driving distance, which didn't help. I could have also reacted by thinking, "I didn't ask which was more convenient...??" So part of the "aha" was also a small thought process: "Okay...it told me something I didn't care about (convenience)...why would it have done that..." Then it made sense.

 

[parsee]

what does "returning to source" mean ??

 

[moss elk]

Hi parsee,

Welcome to the forum.

Try starting a post and referencing the hexagram # and translation/interpretation source.
Maybe even the question in shared readings.

 

[AnitaS]

I'm not sure whether this is the way to post your "Aha!" but I can't find a Post New Thread and so here is my take on hexagram 50 line 1 - I have been trying a technique to help me understand my True Self - a five-word mantra from the Heart Sutra and had asked the Yi whether it was time for me to discuss something important with my spiritual mentor. I also received line 2 - with the hex changing to hex 30, but I can't tell (yet) who is envious of my "progress." Thinking the answer was quite positive, I decided to talk to my mentor but she only spoke to me through another. I was told that techniques don't help and that I should have a "pure heart" and act from it. Line 1 speaks of cleansing the old and getting rid of stagnating stuff. Hope this insight helps someone, sometime. By the way, my spiritual mentor is quite an expert on the Yi and says it's the first changing line that;s most important in a reading, It certainly seems so.

 

[sooo]

More mouths to feed....

The small ranch has taken in four additional boarders, two calves, a gelding, and a miniature pony. I've been recruited to become more active as a ranch hand, particularly during their early evening feeding. This coming Thursday I'll be going it alone as the owners will be at a son's graduation, which I'm perfectly fine with. However, the mamma rancher is assertive, to put it mildly, and it seems I'm now expected to assist on a regular basis. The horses are pretty easy, once I get the hang of which horse gets fed which hay and/or feed; they of course all get water, and the shovel and wheelbarrow get a workout. It's my first experience with calves, and these two are a handful to feed, requiring large bottles (yes, big two quart baby bottles) of milk each, water and hay). Then of course there's ole Jake the cowdog. It's kind of fun, but also work, and I wasn't quite sure how I felt about being a regular ranch hand rather than just a house renter. They do give me a great deal on rent so I figure it's a fair deal for all. Still, I didn't originally sign on in our renter's agreement for this.

I decided to ask Yi about it, but had actually two questions. Though I felt the first answer answered both questions, I chose to ask the second question anyway. I thought the answers were not only accurate but displayed a bit of Yi style humor, which I'll share.

1. To what degree is this extra effort expected of me? 25uc

2. What is the correct attitude for me to have concerning this? 49.2,4 - 5

What got me was the reference to feeding, and the rest was completely relevant as well.

25 - Rich in virtue, and in harmony with the time,
fostered and nourished all beings.

5 - Thus the junzi eats and drinks (feeds and waters),
is joyous and of good cheer.

I also couldn't help but chuckle at the idea of those two calves (a boy and girl), and all the animals really, being young nobles, eating and drinking. After all, 5 does specify "all beings".

 

[rosada]

My kids were kinda cool to my finding a new partner just a year and a half after their father's passing. It's not a big deal but I wish they understood I couldn't go on alone. Assuming that there is indeed life after death, I asked the I Ching for my deceased husband's thoughts on my new relationship. I got 36.2:

Brightness hidden, wounded in the left thigh.
For rescue, use the power of a horse.
Good fortune.

You have received a serious injury that threatens to immobilize you, and it seems you are alone and without help.
To be saved from this plight and get yourself moving again, you will need to draw on a great strength and spirit.
Your horse may arise within you, or it may come galloping to the rescue from outside. The important thing is how freely and powerfully it moves. This is the energy you need to carry yourself forward into new places: grasp it and harness it.
-Barrett.

I think hubby would approve.

 

[goddessliss]

sooo, the same thing happened to me last year - when I originally looked at the place the guy said would ya mind feeding my dogs once a month when I'm away with the horses to which I agreed. I moved in and he would ring me and ask if I'd mind walking the dogs, feed them and put them in their kennels but I was still paying rent so in the end I said no! not long later I moved out because he was a bit mean generally to me and his animals. Sounds like you're embracing the experience though, sounds lovely - Liss

 

[goddessliss]

That's good Rosada, so nice - my first love died 10 years after we met. Move forward 20 years after his death (and after my marriage split) he started 'hanging around' and said he didn't wish me to be with anyone else as I was the only woman he'd ever loved (confirmed by his sister who is well and truly alive) when he was here on earth. I had to find a way to clear that very quickly. Mind you I still haven't met anyone so......eh! What is the thread about anyway I haven't even looked just jumped in and started reading posts. Sorry if I've posted wrongly here - Liss

 

[hilary]

I think hubby would approve.

I don't doubt it.

I've had just one or two readings connecting with the dead - the first, from a client who just wanted to ask how someone was. Good readings.

 

[sooo]

sooo, the same thing happened to me last year - when I originally looked at the place the guy said would ya mind feeding my dogs once a month when I'm away with the horses to which I agreed. I moved in and he would ring me and ask if I'd mind walking the dogs, feed them and put them in their kennels but I was still paying rent so in the end I said no! not long later I moved out because he was a bit mean generally to me and his animals. Sounds like you're embracing the experience though, sounds lovely - Liss

It's grown (probably from all that feeding and eating) to much more activity, but most of it is purely voluntary. It's not as though I'm busy on my own and the work is good for me, plus they both work hard, and they're both always very nice to me and appreciative of the way I just jump in and do things. They share their personal business and real estate transactions, throw little appreciation dinners for their renters, and are just good, honest folks. Plus it's good for my body to work, and my soul is fed by being around the animals. Because of the reputation I've gained here, one of the horse borders asked me to care for her border collie for the two weeks that the owners will be up in Montana. Both are paying me, and the rent is very affordable. They talk me out of moving into any of their other properties because of how I fit in with their lives. We're friends, and I've become friends to their friends. I'm low maintenance and respect them and their privacy, and I pay the rent early every month. It's a win/win deal all around. Given some of the crazy and dangerous places I've rented before coming here, this is pretty ideal. They eventually plan to sell this place and build on some new acreage nearby, and said they plan to build another small house there for me to rent. I could afford to buy one of their properties and they would finance, but neither of us want that. The readings posted here couldn't have been more accurate.

 

[Liselle]

61.2 having to do with the order of things

61.2 > 42:

"Calling crane in the shadows,
Her young respond in harmony.
I have a good wine vessel,
I will share it with you, pouring it all out." (Hilary's book)

This is pretty obvious, but I hadn't seen it before. A response to a call has to come after the call, not before it. One thing has to finish before the response to it can come.

(Also, I was an utter airhead here. You'll see. Feel free to ; I did.)

The example is that I was in a huge almighty hurry to pay a bill as soon as it was available online (LOL). I knew the last date of the billing cycle was the 19th of the month. I assumed that when midnight struck on the 19th, everything would process electronically during the wee hours, and by the time I woke up, later on the morning of the 19th, the bill would be available online to pay.

It wasn't. I asked Yi, "Why isn't the bill here?" Yi answered with 61.2 > 42, the "call and response" idea.

The silly mistake I made was that if the last day of a billing cycle is the 19th, the billing cycle INCLUDES the 19th. Therefore nothing can process until after midnight of the 20th. Previous months' email notifications bore this out - I get notifications dated the 20th. The "call" (the billing cycle) has to finish before the "response" (the bill) can come.

 

[cal val]

Crunchies are dangerous. I know because the Yi told me so

I just found the perfect thread for the experience I'm having today. I have had many AH-HA! moments in the 40 years I've been consulting the Yi, and consequently I trust the Yi more than most.

Ten years ago, when my absolutely flat stomach started to grow a perimenopausal curve in spite of all the exercises I was doing then and had done over the years, I consulted the Yi about how best to return the flat line, or, at the very least, slow the curve's expansion. I suggested all the different types of exercise I was experienced in. I thought crunchies would probably be the best, but the Yi completely disagreed by answering with hexagrams like 6 and 52 and any line that indicated injury. I found it very difficult to believe they would cause injury to my back because I have very strong bones and muscles and had never experienced back pain to any degree in my entire 55 years. But I believed the Yi and stopped any exercise that involved bending my back and carrying any body weight with it.

Fast forward to last year when I first started having back pain in answer to any substantial exertion and then to about three months ago when the pain had increased in frequency and intensity to become mostly constant and unbearable at which point I conceded I needed to see my doctor. X-rays revealed severe degenerative change in the L4-5 and warranted an MRI. I live from day to day on Meloxicam right now and, with the help of my doctor, am considering all my options. Today I found this article online - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/...ves_n_5641513.html?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000063 - confirmation of my AH-HA!

I'm wondering if any other members of this forum have had a similar experience they can share with me as I consider my options; and I'm warning anyone else who loves their crunchies to stop doing them and to find a sensible alternative exercise.

 

[Liselle]

A "lost" object - 27.1

Trojina suggested this would be good for the Aha thread, and rather than trying to summarize a discussion, I'll just post a link:

http://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/friends/showthread.php?19014-Another-quot-lost-quot-object-27-1

(Headline version: The object wasn't lost at all, and Yi's answer was 27.1, the "magic tortoise" line.)

 

[ragini]

I have been inactive on clarity for a long while. It's been a real rough ride in life - I used to ask several questions here and received great answers. But there was something which was preventing me from interacting more on the forums. The way I feel about myself (if you see my image) is unfortunately not reflected in my body, though I hope someday it will be.

But that made me feel uncomfortable (like a fake - cause I have the most unusual sense of my own gender) and I stopped posting clarity.

Today I asked the Yi, can I restart interacting on Clarity ? and received 24.2->19 which I read as a resounding YES. So here I am

 

[svenrus]

Today there was an offer on an Iphone, cheap and to me well known, Nokia. But as some heavy bills have to be payd this month I was in doubt; so asking The I, I got hex. 5.1,2 > 39.
I looked one more time at the tag of this hexagram, according to several translators: Waiting. Patience is advised, and as I'm able still to use my ancient cellphone - OK, it's close to the elysian fields-of-cellphones - it seemed crystalclear that I shouldn't bit in on this offer.