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Adding: it's not uncommon to not get feedback. Editors have piles of submissions to read. It's common not to get feedback, unless it's explicitly promised.A couple of things come to mind:
1. Does the place you submitted to, or the places you want to submit to, have dual submission policies? Why would it be spoiled?
2. What do you think their points of view will be? It sounds as if you think this is about who you know, not about how good the work is? (I'm not trying to sound harsh. 50.3, to me, suggests not seeing the others's point of view as valid. So it's either your own work, or their work, that's in doubt?)
3. "To act innocently" implies, to me, that you think you're not being innocent. I think 15, Integrity is a related hexagram. Are you acting from the source with integrity?
Thanks a lot ZP!A couple of things come to mind:
1. Does the place you submitted to, or the places you want to submit to, have dual submission policies? Why would it be spoiled?
2. What do you think their points of view will be? It sounds as if you think this is about who you know, not about how good the work is? (I'm not trying to sound harsh. 50.3, to me, suggests not seeing the others's point of view as valid. So it's either your own work, or their work, that's in doubt?)
3. "To act innocently" implies, to me, that you think you're not being innocent. I think 15, Integrity is a related hexagram. Are you acting from the source with integrity?
Thanks Matali! Your interpretation of 25.3.4.>37 is quite interesting bc I did frame the question, in my mind, as "what happens if I withdraw from A and send to B?" So the lost cow is gained by the wanderer, right?
Updates: as advised by Matali I should've withdrawn my materials from A and gone with Option B. I didn't follow the clear indications given by the Yi and I'm paying the price.Hello !
My hypothesis is to choose - for now - option B because the princes of option A do not react and apparently they are very wrong !
But according to line 50.3, in the end comes fortune, so they will react one day...
25.3 : the princes of option A lose the cow (it's you and your talent as a poet), but 25.4 seems to mean you'll find them when they realize your talent !
What does 37 mean : will you find a new family of writers with B ? Or, the A family stays behind the scenes... Anyway, it's not a problem to change publishers
Outcomes: I have partly changed my mind on the above. I will stick to my original interpretation of 50: transformational situation where there's nourishing food waiting to be eaten (it'll take a bit, l3) but in the end it does rain. It rained for me in the meantime - my poetry will be published where I first sent it to. I will also stick to the line 4 feeling I had - by waiting too much one risks wanting to eat quickly, diving into the pot, meddling and thereby stumbling on it, making it fall on the floor. If I would have behaved in the ways that my head was calling me to act, I would have certainly seemed foolish to some VIP and spoiled the meal. I controlled myself, listened to my intuition to wait just a few days more, and the message came through.50.3.4 >4 meant that I was/would be a bit foolish and naive to let my work sit in the 50 Pot Uneaten (line 3). This drawn out process has so far shown indications of incompetence and neglect actually on part of some of the editorial team (I heard similar complaints from other people and there's word that folks won't send in their stuff there at all). Line 4 could mean that by having waited for too long, I risk getting annoyed and then overreact - soiling or dropping the pot/meal late, which is bad for me. I'll be the one blamed for failure to get this stuff not; not the editor. Or it could be that by not having the good meal eaten/work noticed on time, I lose out on incoming opportunities for additional work.
The 25.3.4 > 37 may have meant that the loss (of cow/docility) in one context, would be a gain in another context, and things could have turned out well (line 4, option B). A more familiar/approachable environment? I'll never know coz I didn't go for this one. In hindsight, it does look much better.
Clarity,
Office 17622,
PO Box 6945,
London.
W1A 6US
United Kingdom
Phone/ Voicemail:
+44 (0)20 3287 3053 (UK)
+1 (561) 459-4758 (US).