Can the Yi Jing be both "RIGHT" and "WRONG" at the same time????????

[strawdogs]

Hello All,

I've been going through job changes lately. Today I gave my letter of resignation. I already have another job lined up, however, it's something that my whole family thinks I'm crazy for taking. I feel good about the decision I've made, but, when around my family (negative thinking), I'm starting to doubt my decision and I can feel it in my heart.

"Please show me if I'm making a mistake by quitting CA and taking the IONICS job. My family thinks I'm making a mistake, and I'm starting to fill my heart with doubt."


Hex# 49, 6 at the top...changing into Hex# 13


In Wilhelm/Baynes, Wu Jing-Nuan, Jou, Tsung Hwa and Stephen Karcher translations for Hex# 49, 6 at the top are very different to me.

The Gua Ci sounds favorable...."One's own day, thus confidence. The origin, a sacrificial offering, profit the divination. Regrets vanish."

But the text for 6 at the top sounds in conflict with the Gua Ci. Which one do I believe?

Hex# 13's judgment sounds like it's telling me "you made the right decision about the job"..."Fellowship with men in the open. Success. It furthers one to cross the great water. The perserverance of the superior man furthers."

Is the YI telling me what I want to hear? How do I make sence of the judgments and the lines? Which do I "believe".

Now I'm very doubtful if I did the right thing ?



strawdogs

[hilary]

The first hexagram shows you the scene, the moving line pinpoints where you are. So in the Radical Change of your working life, you're at the final line: the revolution is complete (or at least well underway), and the only question now is how people adjust.

The noble one changes like a leopard, with power and grace. Small people make more superficial, less committed changes. Can you fix this - can you banish both your family's doubts and the inner 'small person' they awaken in you? Well, no, sadly not. You've made the core change; now it's time to settle into the new way of life you're creating, even if its beginnings are less than perfect.

Or as LiSe puts it:
"Be content with the results when everybody acts as best he can. Asking for more will bring about failure and bad feelings. A change is for the better, not for perfection."

[strawdogs]

What about Hex# 13? I'm gathering that my next job is a time for me to come together with other people to build a Tampa office for the company. Is it possible I'm reading too much into it?

strawdogs

[bruce]

Sounds like it's a little late to turn back now. I love Hilary's interpretation here of line 6, and it meshes perfectly with the fan yao of 13.6, in that there are no special interests of your own, no ladder to climb, no one to compete with. At least not for the noble. There is only you belonging with the new group.

If those around you do not believe this is a good move, on your own day you will be believed. But only you can determine how great or small this molting is or will be.

[strawdogs]

Thanks Bruce,

I like Hilary's interpretation too! It's making me feel and think about this reading. 13.6? I never thought about reading the lines in Hex# 13. I thought that one is just supposed to read the image of the changing Hex? Can you please explain to me what drew you to do this? I'm very, very, very interested in learning about how to better interpret my readings.


Thanks,

strawdogs

[bruce]

Hi Strawdogs,

I rarely use the fan yao approach, but it sometimes works well for mining additional clues.

Each change line moves the primary hex. to a relating hex. You refer to the same change line in the relating hex. What is most often found is a mirror-like image of the original change line, which can show a fresh slant on the reading. If you have multiple lines, you create a new hex. for each one. In this case there was only one applicable line, in the 6th place.

LiSe's site makes this easy because each line links to its fanyao hexagram.