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Help with re-arranging, sorting out living room: Yi's answer, 22.3 to 27.

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So, September, summer holiday time over, kids back to school, and routine, less road trips for a while for me.
So ive gone in to tackle the sitting room, a room that has been the lair of teens and preteens over the holidays. It is also kind of the music room, because my house is small, with guitars, hifi, cds.... and a study and homework kind of room too, as well as TV room. I have done a perfunctionary clean here and there, but now I have gone in, (like Hazmat haha) to do a deep clean, rearrange, clear those corners etc. I am now actually realising that ive been not using this room at all myself for about a year or two.

I'm having an emotional tough time cleaning it; just feeling all sorts: that I dont like the room, I feel lonely in this room, I can never relax in it, I dont like the house, TV is depressing etc... all that stuff churning. I'm thinking, maybe I'm feeling this housework resentment thing *because* I am fixing the room, not for me, but just for their kids and their friends; I'm thinking from the outside, about what outsiders might view, rather than from within.

I asked Yi "How do I work from within, make the room nice for myself too, so that I use it too, so that I have my friends in it too? Or refining it, whats the best way to approach making this room a nice relaxing part of the home? "

So Yi's answer, Hexagram 22.3 to 27.
from Hillary:
Quote:

How can you make the essence visible to others?
What do you choose to communicate?
Oracle
'Beauty. Creating success.
Small yield from having a direction to go
.'
Thats interesting, the idea that the arrangement of a room is communication, that a living room communicates from the heart (and hearth) of the home, about the essence of the home, our home, and our family.

I will ponder this...

Quote:

No created image could ever express a whole person.

So this is not a time to concentrate on results: it's a time for imaginative, lively exploration of beautiful ways the essence could flower and be seen.
Quote:

Changing Lines

Line 3
'Beautiful, as if dipped in water.
Ever-flowing constancy, good fortune.'
Does this mean: Make it shiny,
Glittery?
;)

Or Fung Shui thinking, focus on free flowing energy, no corners, how do people move around the room?

Maybe I'll go look up Fung Shui for a North West facing Living room

Anyone any thoughts or ideas?

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