Journey

How do I get in alignment to a life that’s most fulfilling, rewarding and happy?

#33 Retreat > #12 Standstill

• Stay focused on the going, not on the frustration.
• Better to realign your thinking by incorporating the cause for delay than to not proceed at all.

I want to feel/be financially secure

#6 Conflict

• “When you find peace n yourself, you find peace all around you”.
• Resolving inner conflicts enables you to find solutions to external problems.
• Seek solutions.
• Use good judgement and common sense.
• Look for the root in yourself.
• Have you chosen to follow fear instead of your own strength and nature?
• Identify your vulnerabilities and weaknesses and see them clearly & take responsibility.

How can I re-remember that farm situation in a more empowering, beneficial way?

#63 > #51

• Find sturdy helpers who know how to navigate difficult terrain.
• When you are able to dispassionately witness the subtle nuances of dark & light, it is possible to shift to an insight that resolves a sense of inner harmony & well-being.
• Don’t dwell in the past. Simple, everyday acts have the power to consolidate and strengthen.

What is the best way to help others?

#61 Inner Truth

• Free yourself from prejudice so that your actions can be based on what you know to be true.
• Stop judging so much and start understanding a little more.
• Truth is the silent voice of the heart that responds with detached clarity in an intuitive knowing that sees through all blocks.
• The voice of your own consciousness.

How to tune into a winning vibration/frequency?

#38 > #60

• Where there’s a will, there’s a way.
• Clarify in your own mind what it is you are afraid of losing.
• Find the “hidden fear”.

What career should I pursue?

#5 Wait > #3 Beginning

• Patiently observe where you’re at, and you will discover a way out.

What do I need to be well?

#49 Welcome Change > #17 Follow

• Try, try, try again.
• You’re going to get through this.
• Discomfort is inevitable during transformation.
• Chaos is part of the process.
• Accept it.

I feel like everything is falling apart, should I be worried?

#33 Retreat > #31 Woo

• Liberate yourself from a costly battle.
• Your doubts will disappear when your future path becomes clear.
• Depression & anger will fade when you can see your path.

What is my clear path?

#26 Controlled power > #33 Retreat

• Only when you are not defending do you hold the power of the great.

What do I need to learn/know about my ‘off’ interaction with ____?

#59 Pride & Ego-Dissolving > #61 Inner Truth

• Nip it in the bud.
• When misunderstandings threaten the harmony of the group, stop them before they start.
• Deal with small problems before they become serious.
• With sincere intention to restore balance, you can gently steer the course of events toward harmony rather than discord.

How do I connect to higher guidance?

#42 Increasing

• Increasing your influence in the world, emulate people doing good.
• Where you recognize your own faults, work on eradicating them.
• Represents your ability to improve yourself & your life.
• Increase all that is good and true.
• Increase all that is nourishing & uplifting.
• Sincere and open generosity.

What is best approach to having boundaries without being mean to people? (i.e. What is the best approach to my problem neighbour?)

#19 Approach

• A humble heart and a tolerant attitude.
• Create a safe atmosphere where people want to do their best.
• Symbolizes the help that those in a high position can give to those beneath.
• Pass on wisdom/guidance.
• Treat kindly.

What do I need most right now?

#33 Retreat > #44 Coming together / emptation

• Never lose sight of your long-term goal.
• Stay firm and don’t give up the struggle.
• Anchor yourself to that which you truly believe in and no matter how rough it gets, keep that flame alive.
• The time of hardship will end.
• You will emerge stronger and more than capable of succeeding in whatever you take on.

Despite troubles, I’ve felt pretty at peace with everything lately. I translate that to being more in balance within. What say you?

#14 Heavenly Treasure > #30 Clarity

• You’ve found the treasure.
• Now you must use the appropriate vehicle to convey it where it can do the most good.

Why is______ being hostile towards me?

#47 Oppression/Adversity > #6 Conflict

• Quiet contemplation and nonjudgmental consideration of all the factors that have been in play will increase your understanding.

What is the best thing to ask of life to the I Ching?

#41 Decrease > #23 Split Apart

• Be ready to offer help if it is needed.
• Maintain your dignity while in service to others.
• Know your faults and do something about them.
• Keep the balance in your daily life.

What faults do I need to work on?

#42 Increase > #63 Completion

• Be sincere and you’ll come to no harm.
• Your influence is recognized at the highest levels.
• By enriching others, you enrich yourself.
• Sometimes harm happens to good people and in the very process of this happening it becomes beneficial.
• Don’t offer more than you can deliver.

How to discern what is real?

#42 Increase > #35 Making Progress

• The help you receive from above puts you in a position to achieve great things.
• Keep to the middle path – don’t be swayed by extremes.
• If your heart is in the right place, no fuss.

What do I need to know most right now (re: that psycho-ex-neighbour that is threatening me if I don’t get involved in his drama?)

#25 Innocence

• Being true to yourself, you can’t go wrong.
• Follow your better instincts.
• Beware of being caught up in other peoples messes.
• Act naturally, honourably, and truthfully.
• Act without guilt relying on inner principles.

What am I learning from this?

#56 Wanderer > #52 Stillness

• Don’t lower your guard.
• Being careless can be expensive.
• Hold yourself in check.

What can I do to rectify?

#23 > #40

• Don’t get involved in other people’s business.

Both vehicles are currently out of action. Where should I focus my energies whilst seemingly stranded at home?

#22 Grace > #52 Meditate

• It is more graceful to go on foot than to ride in the carriage under a false pretence.
• Kick off your shoes and dance. Gratitude for being alive.
• No need to be anything other than just who you are, or do anything but what you enjoy most.