How will I know the right Career Direction? 24.6->27

[Virupaksha]

Hey everyone, got the dreaded line 6 in Hex 24. For context, I'm a bit tired of my current industry and want to move into a more entrepreneurial, creative field where I work for myself (Ive considered music and/or writing). I've worked in my current industry for several years, left once and returned to it again this year. Coincidentally when asking if I should return I received hex 24 in some form several times. I returned with the intention of using that money to pay off loans and save up so I can build up resources for what I want to do. I've received Hex 56 in regards to my current job which I usually get for jobs that last less than a year.

I asked:

How will I know the right direction to go in my career next? 24.6->27
Return changes to Nourishment
Hex 24- Return. Not quite sure what this means in this context. Does this mean an opportunity presented itself recently and I completely missed it? Or is it predicting or warning about a future event with a critical decision? I don't personally feel like any major opportunities have come up in the last several years. It's been pretty routine for a while. Not sure where Nourishment plays a role here either.

There is a strong reprimand about obstinate behavior in the hexagram. So it could be warning that some currently held belief or bad habit can steer me away from the 'right direction'. Or it could mean that my routines and habits were bad enough to have caused me to miss this opportunity.

Another possibility is it could suggest to pull back on eagerly seeking a specific objective just yet. I tend to worry about putting all my eggs in the right basket ASAP career-wise.

 

[becalm]

Hex 24 Turning Point by Returning to self and look at (Line 6) confront your motivation for becoming a entrepreneur - wealth, power, fear etc.
Hex 27 - I always, always look at what I'm nourishing myself on.

 

[my_key]

How will I know the right direction to go in my career next? 24.6->27
Return changes to Nourishment

Things are changing for you in you life right now and you are moving towards things / situations that will give you more fulfillment. Think back to times when life was really nourishing for you. There may be a clue there. Be sure that the entreprenurial path is the right one for you and that there is not something else that is making you tired of your current industry. You will know the right direction when you have considered all things carefully. Then time is right for you to make a decision..

 

[Virupaksha]

Thanks everyone. Probably should have clarified, I'm interested in working on my own creative projects, as a musician a writer (or both), which is what I meant by entrepreneurial, probably the wrong term in retrospect.

Line 6 in Hex 24 has to do with missing an opportunity due to obstinacy. Grave misfortune ensues. I usually take the changing lines as the main narrative, though I believe the trend on this site is to take Hex+Resultant Hex as the main part of the narrative.

Things are changing for you in you life right now and you are moving towards things / situations that will give you more fulfillment. Think back to times when life was really nourishing for you. There may be a clue there. Be sure that the entreprenurial path is the right one for you and that there is not something else that is making you tired of your current industry.

I think the overall corporate/bureaucratic nature of my industry has been a problem for me. But it's mainly that I want to pursue my own creative projects. Doing that when I was younger definitely brought the most nourishment.

What I fear is that there was some golden opportunity recently and I missed it. Though that doesn't sound like the best interpretation?

 

[my_key]

What I fear is that there was some golden opportunity recently and I missed it. Though that doesn't sound like the best interpretation?

Your question was about 'How will I know'. A question based in the future or the present. Your fears appear to be grounded in your past.

 

[Trojina]

There is a strong reprimand about obstinate behavior in the hexagram. So it could be warning that some currently held belief or bad habit can steer me away from the 'right direction'. Or it could mean that my routines and habits were bad enough to have caused me to miss this opportunity.

No there isn't a 'strong reprimand' in hexagram 24, nor in 24.6.

This is what the line says, from Hilary in wiki

'Deluded return, pitfall. There is calamity and blunder.
Using this to mobilise the armies: in the end there is great defeat.
For your state's leaders, disaster.
For ten years, incapable of marching out.'

There is no reprimand about a lost opportunity but advice not to try to remake past conditions or save something, it's too late for that. This can be a harsh line, it is actually saying whatever you are asking about it's too late to return to things how they were. But often when you experience it there can be a kind of relief. Also it's not a terrible line because it's advising you if you try to remake things it's disastrous so don't try. If you don't try to recapture something it's okay. Trying to recapture something here is a delusion. It's the last line of 24, it's too late to return.


So how can it apply to your question here ?

Hey everyone, got the dreaded line 6 in Hex 24. For context, I'm a bit tired of my current industry and want to move into a more entrepreneurial, creative field where I work for myself (Ive considered music and/or writing). I've worked in my current industry for several years, left once and returned to it again this year. Coincidentally when asking if I should return I received hex 24 in some form several times. I returned with the intention of using that money to pay off loans and save up so I can build up resources for what I want to do. I've received Hex 56 in regards to my current job which I usually get for jobs that last less than a year.

Well 24uc can often be suggesting you pull up the drawbridge awhile, allowing energies to return, to reorientate yourself. It's not a time of great action. It could be the 24uc there wasn't telling you to return to your job but to just let things be awhile, I can't be sure.

How will I know the right direction to go in my career next? 24.6->27
Return changes to Nourishment
Hex 24- Return. Not quite sure what this means in this context. Does this mean an opportunity presented itself recently and I completely missed it? Or is it predicting or warning about a future event with a critical decision? I don't personally feel like any major opportunities have come up in the last several years. It's been pretty routine for a while. Not sure where Nourishment plays a role here either.

I think if you are thinking of recapturing something you felt you missed in the past the line is advising you it would be pretty disastrous to do so. So for example if you are thinking of leaving a well paid job to resume something you wanted to do in the past this is a strong 'don't'.

This isn't really about missing major opportunities it's saying the time to do what you have in mind has passed and you must accept that. If you don't accept that and continue you make blunders, 'calamity'. These are extreme words but they are not reprimands.

I've seen this line play out quite clearly many times.

Someone asking about returning to work when their health was bad. They died shortly after. Going back to work was really something that was 'too late for them'. There's no 'reprimand' nor anything at all about being 'stubborn' is there. The word 'stubborn' isn't even there.

Someone asking about difficult chemotherapy when they were dying. 24.6 saying 'if you do that, try to recapture wellness in chemo it's not good for you'

Someone asking about trying to repay debt they couldn't pay. The trying wouldn't have worked, it would have caused more problems. bankruptcy was actually a better option.



It's a time to allow collapse rather than try to rebuild, it's the rebuilding that's the mistake. This isn't so gloomy as it sounds as in the long run and obviously it's not always about dying !


But having read your post I feel it may be saying it is too late for you to think about a new career, or rather asking about changes now for a brand new life aren't realistic and if you go after something you are trying to recapture from your past, don't because it will be injurious.

Given your actual question of how you will know the right direction to go in your career next, well should you be thinking in terms of 'next' at this point ? Only you know what it is you are trying to recapture that Yi advises you don't.

But it's mainly that I want to pursue my own creative projects. Doing that when I was younger definitely brought the most nourishment.

Ah just read this. Your answer is advising you not to go the route of recapturing things from before.

 

[Trojina]

Line 6 in Hex 24 has to do with missing an opportunity due to obstinacy. Grave misfortune ensues

This is wrong. It's someone's commentary but it is wrong and very misleading from those commentaries.
It really is not saying 'oh you have screwed it up you missed your chance' but just 'don't try to get that chance back as in doing so you will cause yourself to suffer

In terms of your question 'when is the right time ?' I'd say 'don't', don't try to recapture the past.

 

[Virupaksha]

There is no reprimand about a lost opportunity but advice not to try to remake past conditions or save something, it's too late for that. This can be a harsh line, it is actually saying whatever you are asking about it's too late to return to things how they were.

Thanks for this clarification. Most of the commentaries I've found (Wing, Huang etc) seem to give the interpretation that I originally thought of and I don't usually deviate from the commentaries. I'll remember to keep the focus on the line itself.

Ah just read this. Your answer is advising you not to go the route of recapturing things from before.

This describes my return to my current industry quite aptly (which happened back in April). I went to an MFA program for fiction in the interim and decided to leave that to return to this industry due to student loans piling up. Although, confusingly, I received 23uc in regards to my current job when asking about the outcome of the interview, and I ended up getting the offer. It has been a pretty stressful experience so far with micromanaging bosses etc.

When I asked:

Should I pursue music as a career? 62.3.4.6>23

Sounds like a definitive "No" to me. Or at least that now is not the right time, and to leave my job and pursue this would be exceeding my limits at the time and be injurious.

Should I continue to write and pursue writing on the side? 14.2>30

This sounds like a "Yes" to me. Perhaps my current job is the "Big wagon for loading" that will help pursue this as a side hobby.

 

[Trojina]

I agree with what you said - bearing in mind it's a complex set of circumstances I haven't exactly got my head around...but career in music doesn't look good does it. I mean I make it a rule never to close things down because of what the I Ching says. What I mean is I don't think we should be so 'obedient' to what we think it says. For one thing we can interpret wrongly and for another well maybe we want the experience, all choices are our free will. So if your heart was set on music I wouldn't say turn down opportunities that come along however it looks like you'd be a very little bird flying in a very big sky and it would be too much for you. It seems you have concerns far closer to home, closer to the ground to attend to . 23 also emphasises that in a time of deterioration it's best to look to your most basic supports, feed what you rest on. So this looks like pursuing something that really isn't your work at all. I note the yang change pattern is 56, yin pattern 60 (these are the hexagrams the change lines make when you make them all yang or all yin). You have to realise the world/your choices really aren't an open book, you can't go anywhere and do anything. If you fly too far away from what really sustains you or provides direction you stand to lose quite alot I think.


Pursuing writing on the side sounds a good idea. Here there is a direction, things are moving.


It sounds overall like rather than you flying off in all directions Yi is asking you to come back to earth and narrow your interests rather than try to expand them.

 

[rosada]

It also occurs to me that 24.6 could be a reference to the idea that world has totally changed now, things are never going to return to the way they were before Covid-19.
Perhaps your career decisions should consider what new opportunities are out there now and to nourish what’s positive.

 

[Viru10]

I created a new profile but wanted to say thanks for your thoughts.

It sounds overall like rather than you flying off in all directions Yi is asking you to come back to earth and narrow your interests rather than try to expand them.

This is quite an idea to chew on. Given so much of my generation's (millenial) overt messaging of "be whatever you want!" it's nice to hear the contrast to that. I am a moderately skilled guitarist/composer so it's not complete delusion to pursue this path it's just something I've worried I missed the boat on.

Granted I work as a visual artist in the game industry so it's not like I'm working a generic pencil-pusher cubicle job. Game studio careers can be pretty intense and I've had my eye on moving on at some point. Luckily, my industry has been given a boost due to everyone staying at home, and my company has been pretty good at working remote. I definitely have been too focused on moving to greener pastures (in my mind) and not paying attention to the tasks in front of me at work.

Perhaps your career decisions should consider what new opportunities are out there now and to nourish what’s positive.

Understandably, given the circumstances, maybe there are better directions to go in the future. But like Trojina said the priority should be what's giving me a paycheck now.