Why do I feel alone?

What this question usually is

• Being surrounded is not the same as being known. The feeling follows the second one, not the first.
• It gets loudest in the evening, when the day stops making demands and you notice what's missing.
• Most people who feel this way assume they're the only one doing it. That assumption is the loneliest part.

What tends to help

• Send one message to one person — not a big one. "Hey, random, but how are you?" is enough.
• Say out loud what you'd want someone to say to you. Yes, to the empty room. It works more often than it should.
• If it's late: keep it simple. Water, lights low, one line you can carry to bed.

What the reading adds

周易 has been read for three thousand years — not to predict, but to give a moment a form you can look at. Put the question in, and Write the thing you can't say to anyone, and take one line back to bed. A mirror — not a diagnosis.

Ask the oracle one question · Or start from how it feels (If the word you'd use is empty) · What the I Ching is

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