what have i asked the yijing?

place: my room in finsbury park

the night of my visit to JB, i had been reticent about the yijing but i was suddenly struck by the desire to do another reading, i'd recorded a version of the song i'd finished recently and given it to P & K, although K had still not heard it even though i'd emailed it her on her birthday, the day i recorded it, a week or so before, problems with her emails and i guess a reticence from her...

anyway i'd phoned K about it a few days previously and she'd suggested we meet for a cup of tea on the friday, which was also my first day back @ work after the easter holiday...

i asked the question on the thursday night:

how shall i approach meeting K tomorrow?

threw the coins, got:

9 8 6 7 7 9 9


hexagram 25, with moving lines 1, 3 and 6 giving hexagram 31

25 Innocence

Innocence. Supreme success.
Perseverance furthers.
If someone is not as he should be,
he has misfortune,
and it does not further him
to undertake anything.

25/3:

Undeserved misfortune.
The cow that was tethered by someone
Is the wanderer's gain, the citizen's loss.

31 Influence (wooing)

Influence. Success.
Perseverance furthers.
To take a maiden to wife brings good fortune.

So i approach the meeting with innocence, without intentions, (this in the context of my assuming K is with someone now, even as i want to be with her), but there will be undeserved misfortune, however the future seems to be one of wooing... well i took it that the undeserved misfortune would be that she has indeed met someone else... i don't like to think about the future part of it, i don't like fostering hopes where they might well be dashed... this is how i approached the meeting...

and then the next day came and it turned out that the undeserved misfortune was that another friend of hers was at work that day & by the time of our meeting she'd already left, with him i guess... so there was no meeting, undeserved misfortune indeed...

strangely validating of the yijing...

i'm still ignoring the wooing part... like i said, hopes... dashed...