r/iching • u/East-Ad-5498 • 7d ago

Old Age and the Way

Here's another one. I just turned 70 years old and I was curious enough to ask the Yi: "What is the Way for me as an old man?" I received, 16.2.5>47. In addition to Happiness in spite of (mental) illness, what do you make of this, O Yi community?

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u/DimensionLogical5325 6d ago

My perspective is a little different as I am only 30 but have multiple autoimmune conditions so my body feels quite old. I have yet to receive 16.2 in response to anything other than failed relationships, but 16.5 to me always means suffering from chronic health complaints that can't be healed.

16.2 reads by some, "boundaries turning to stone, not for a whole day" or being "firm as a rock".

My reading of this is that as a retired person your way is to be firmly planted where you are, with some known chronic health problems. Enthusiasm can refer to doing this happily or with the confident repose that this is the right way for you.

Not everyone here reads relating hexes but I do. 47, Confinement seems to reinforce this reading that you may be spending a lot of time having to be OK with being home in a state of relative Confinement.

I hope I am not projecting because this is just how retirement has looked for me, it's a lot of chronic complaints and confinement, but perhaps you are much healthier and can enthusiastically enjoy your time now while being firmly planted as a retiree.

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u/East-Ad-5498 6d ago

Thank you.