Financial Stability

[artriff]

Hello everyone,

Last year (middle of '08), I ask the Yi when will I have some financial stability.
I drew 53 with changing lines 1,5 and 6.

I think I've read from Karcher to let the answers 'turn and move your heart'. This reading did.

I thought those lines speak to every part of a major goal I have - to finish college.

53.1'Geese approach the highlands'... I enrolled in an online degree.

53.5 'Woman does not get pregnant in three years'... Right now I'm feeling this, as if I'm achieving nothing. I did not enroll last semester because of financial difficulties. As much as I want to get a new job with a better pay, the present conditions (financial crisis) suggests for me to stay in my current job ( Yes. The Yi is reiterating this to me)

53.6 'Geese reach the highlands. Feathers can be used for ceremonies again and again' (or the Way will remain open to you again and again)...I still don't know about this one.

Anyway a month before enrollment last year(last quarter)-- I got some answers that wasn't clear to me. Something like 'It's as if you're gonna lose some coins, but don't chase it, for it will return' (sorry I can't remember the hexagram, on the same degree I think I've read also about the line that says 'Losing a horse')

In December '08, I felt impatient and confused with the events that happen. I started to importune -- "If can't finish college, then what's my real purpose in life?' I got the same hexagram 53.1.5.6

I've felt I have to trust the Oracle to 'not chase what I lose' and this 'will take time.' Right now it has been giving me nuances and shadings that I'm in a transition phase, 'To not impose my will.' I've read my Chinese horoscope for 2009 (Horse) and it says the fruits of my labor can only be seen next year. And some of my daily horoscope(Scorpio) has been giving signals of my situation too.

Just like to know your thoughts.

[gene]

One primary directive in hexagram 53 is that progress is gradual, really truly gradual. The concept of "not chasing after what you have lost" is hinted at in several places in the I Ching. In one place, it says, "you cannot (permanently) lose that which truly belongs to you." What is yours is yours. But another common motif is clear here too. In order to possess what belongs to us, we have to have a clearly established mental attitude of peace and serenity. Failure to have that quality is the same as saying you do not believe that lesson. It is only when we are perfectly still, (hexagram 52) that that which belongs to us makes its appearance. "The rain comes, and there is rest."

Gene