Alright, let’s talk about this thing I started calling ‘ifate love iching’ in my notes. It wasn’t some grand plan, really. It started a while back when I was just feeling kinda stuck, you know? Especially with relationship stuff, patterns repeating. Felt like I was bumping into the same walls.
Finding the Book
I remembered stumbling across the I Ching, that old Chinese book of changes. Had one collecting dust on a shelf for years. Never really got it before. Sounded complicated. But I was looking for something different, a new angle maybe. So, I pulled it down. Didn’t have any yarrow stalks like the old timers, just found three old coins in a drawer. Good enough, I figured.
Trying It Out
So, I started playing around with it. Honestly, at first, it felt weird. You’re supposed to clear your head, ask a question. My questions were usually about, well, ‘love stuff’. Why did this happen? What should I do about that feeling? Things like that. Then you toss the coins, six times.
- Toss the coins.
- Write down the lines (broken or solid, changing or not).
- Look up the hexagram thingy in the book.
Reading the results… that was the tricky part. The book gives you these descriptions, poems almost. Very vague sometimes. Not like a fortune cookie saying “You will meet someone tall, dark, and handsome.” More like… hints. Or maybe just stuff that makes you think.
What Happened with Love and Fate?
Did it predict my love life? Nah, not really. Not in a crystal ball kind of way. But using it, thinking about the readings in relation to what I was asking about… it did something else. It made me slow down. Instead of just reacting to relationship drama, I’d toss the coins, read the text, and just sit with it.
Sometimes the reading felt totally random. Other times, a phrase would just jump out. It didn’t give me answers like “dump him” or “propose now”. But maybe it would talk about ‘patience’ when I was feeling impulsive, or ‘crossing the great water’ when I felt stuck. It was less about knowing the future (the ‘fate’ part) and more about understanding the present situation, my own feelings about it.
It became less about fortune-telling and more like a conversation with myself. The coins and the book were just… prompts. Tools to look at things from a different perspective. Did it magically fix my love life? No. But it helped me untangle my own thoughts about it. It made me look at my own role in those repeating patterns I mentioned.
So, What’s the Point?
So, this ‘ifate love iching’ practice, for me, wasn’t about finding The One or predicting destiny. It was just a way I found to navigate the confusing bits. A way to step back, use this old system as a mirror, however fuzzy. It’s personal. Doesn’t work for everyone, I guess. But for me, it was a useful exercise. Made me think more, react less. And sometimes, that’s all you need.
