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Question: ‘What do I need to focus on now so that I can be living my best life in my third age?’

Answer: Hexagram 23, Stripping Away, changing at lines 1,2,3,4 and 6 to 34, Great Vigour.

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With her very first question to the Yi, Parmjit asked for focus, and received five moving lines; she was looking for direction, and her reading started with Hexagram 23 (‘no direction bears fruit’!). But it’s still the beginning of a beautiful friendship…

Here’s Yi doing something I’d never seen before: echoing and resonating with a Sanskrit mantra.

Sana dreamt the Gayatri mantra; when she woke, she asked Yi for a picture of her inner landscape, and cast Hexagram 35, Advancing –

– without changing lines.

No decisions to be made or problems to be solved in this reading – just a gift to receive.

Here’s episode 64 of the podcast, with a reading about recovery from depression:

How to be well? By Limping with Clarity…

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This looks like a complicated reading, but it really isn’t.

If you’d like to share a reading of your own on the podcast, you can do that at onlineclarity.co.uk/share. Private reading chats are included in Change Circle membership at onlineclarity.co.uk/circle.

A reading for a decision this time: Sha asked,

“If I build another tech company, what will the experience be like?”

Yi answered with Hexagram 27, Nourishing, changing at lines 2 and 3 to 26, Great Tending:

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So that gave her an interesting couple of moving lines:

‘Unbalanced nourishment.
Rejecting the standard, looking to the hill-top for nourishment.
Setting out to bring order – pitfall.’

‘Rejecting nourishment.
Constancy, pitfall.
For ten years, don’t act.
No direction bears fruit.’

It looks as though the experience would be not much fun at all – but why…?

Bill asked about his dating prospects, and received – of all things – the sixth line of Hexagram 24, Returning…

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…which is exactly no-one’s favourite line. So how do you respond when Yi’s answer is all doom and gloom, and really not what you hoped to hear? You explore… so we did.

Bill kindly interviewed me for his blog afterwards: here’s his article.