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I just wanted to add before I respond that I used the word “family” to replace the location of where I’m going… even though there is family where I intend to go - it is where I was raised and have not lived or worked for a long while. I also consider the family I was raised with as my secondary family in contrast to the ones I raised who live back where I want to fully return - but can not go back there yet due to lack of good financial opportunities / cost of living, higher taxes etc.Hm...I really don't know what to do with this, and what has popped to mind is barely a fragment.
Which is, that hexagrams 1 and 2 are a pair - every odd-numbered hexagram is paired with the even-numbered one that follows it. They're also opposites/complements - every yang line in 1 is turned to yin in 2. Hilary compares them to a seal and the sealing wax.
So it strikes me that you asked if it's a good idea. Ideas and inspiration are the domain of hexagram 1, and Yi gave you 1's pair/ complement/ opposite. I'm wondering if that's a pointed comment. (Or maybe I'm reading too much into it. People ask if something's a good idea a lot, and don't get hexagram 2 most of the time.)
Unchanging hexagrams often seem to have question marks over them. 2 unchanging might ask, "What would you like to grow in this field?," or some other question about how you might relate to a theme of 2. (Since the relating hexagram is missing in unchanging readings.)
I also remember someone had an idea about 2 that it can mean a return to normal conditions. In yours I wonder if it could mean you already know what you'd be getting if you move back, and how do you feel about that?
Just to answer your question about where do I want to root … It’s back where I came from, the other country I lived for 20 years of my adult life. I was born in the country I am now - but it is not home, home for me. I came to this place to see if maybe something spiritual might happen and that I might feel grounded and connected - and in some ways I am, more than I have been in the past … but in other ways not as I do miss some of the creature comforts I am otherwise used to when not in this place.I’m kind of in the opposite boat as you—near family and at place of origin but feel there’s more out there and wish to take the fool’s journey.
So 2 struck me as the field of opportunity, a common interpretation. To plant seeds where you want to root, grow fruit and harvest that fruit. Where do you want to root? Sounds like you haven’t found it where you are, but are still producing anyway. Maybe sweet fruit. Maybe sour. Or maybe it’s a low-yield season?
Just to clarify …2Uc means you stay there and work it out. It will become a lifechanging experience
Ok, not so opposite from me. Similar.Just to answer your question about where do I want to root … It’s back where I came from, the other country I lived for 20 years of my adult life. I was born in the country I am now - but it is not home, home for me. I came to this place to see if maybe something spiritual might happen and that I might feel grounded and connected - and in some ways I am, more than I have been in the past … but in other ways not as I do miss some of the creature comforts I am otherwise used to when not in this place.
As I want to go home ASAP - I am trying to figure out the best way to get back.
I don’t want to go back without savings due to the higher cost of living where I came from and lack of jobs that I am interested in at a wage I would deem as decent. Even though I am paid fairly where I am, the grocery barge costs are eating into my income - as the local store doesn’t stock a lot of what I want/ need.
The job I am doing was meant to be a stepping stone…
Being patient, mindful, responsive…couldn’t hurt!^ Just to add -
I have since read and reflected more into hexagram 2 unchanging and I can see that I may have seriously overlooked one of it’s more obvious meanings - and that is to be more patient, mindful, responsive and accepting of my current surroundings and situation- rather than taking action, trying to move on again so soon.
Clarity,
Office 17622,
PO Box 6945,
London.
W1A 6US
United Kingdom
Phone/ Voicemail:
+44 (0)20 3287 3053 (UK)
+1 (561) 459-4758 (US).