Greetings everyone,

I recently had a job interview at a place where I have done part time work for the past three years. There was a full-time opening last fall, and I applied with no success. An opening re-appeared this month and I applied again and asked for guidance ...

Received 24 Fu, with no changing lines. After deep reflection, strong preparation and a great interview, I came back to the image the following week, trying to see what would transpire while I waited for their phone call. It felt right. So much of the text seemed to mirror all the positive qualities of the interview.

The phone call came and I did not get the job. Since then I've been wondering, what then does 24 seem to tell me in this situation?

Any insight would be appreciated.

Sincerely,
Schastlivchik

Hex 24 doesn't actually say that you will get the job. It says that it is time of transition, leaving the past behind to obtain a new start. So applied to your situation, as you already have been working there 3 years, so now it suggests that working there is finally coming to an end and some new employment will come your way elsewhere.
And as this transition has just started, it indicates that you should find other employment, say around the end of September.

24 "The Turning Point" is about transition, a major shift in direction that is organic, in the sense that it's inherent in the process of your life. You don't need to do anything specific except to get out of the way, watch for signs of what to do next, and then do your part.

An analogy to this is the process of giving birth. The mother's body and the child's body know instinctively how to get the job done. That baby is going to be born, with or without the mother's conscious understanding of how it happens. The mother can only facilitate the birth. She can't control it, and if she tries, her efforts just get in the way and make it a heck of a lot more painful.

To me, 24 has a feeling of "tsunami". There is a momentum behind it, the energies having reached a critical mass, unstoppable, inevitable. When caught in a (metaphorical) tsunami, what do you do? Ride the waves as best you can and let it take you where you need to go. And if you can enjoy the ride, so much the better.

There's an element of trust required here, that it's your life process at work, and that what happens is indeed taking you to the next stage of your life.

So in your situation, what 24 is advising you is to relax. If you don't get a specific job, that's perfectly fine. It wasn't the right situation for you, and it might even have sidetracked you from where you need to be. You have no idea what may be coming up for you on the other side of the bend; possibly something quite lovely that you couldn't have foreseen or planned on your own.

Edited to add: This reminds me of the quote from Oscar Wilde: "Life is too important to be taken seriously."

Going with Kitty's child birthing analogy, 24, in this case, looks like false labor, after which your body returns to a "not yet" stage.

You also returned to the reading you'd received about it for deeper understanding.

In general, I think of 24 as a return inward, just as when breathing inward. Life (yang, strong line at the beginning) reenters your body, and you go on living.

But that can get a little tricky in application. Let's say you are returning to a job or to school, or to a relationship? Those are outward movements. Ah, but from their perspective, you are returning to them, which is an inward movement. You are the air.

I find the same squiggly quality with conscious/unconscious represented by yang and yin, as to which is which. Are we living in darkness or in light? Do we return when we sleep or wake? When we die/depart, are we born or dead?

What matters in 24 is turning around, not which way you're facing. The word "repent" means to turn around, sans the moral judgment.

meng said:

In general, I think of 24 as a return inward, just as when breathing inward. Life (yang, strong line at the beginning) reenters your body, and you go on living.

But that can get a little tricky in application. Let's say you are returning to a job or to school, or to a relationship? Those are outward movements. Ah, but from their perspective, you are returning to them, which is an inward movement. You are the air.

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This reminds me of the Buddhist image of "the Buddha breathes out and the worlds come into existence; the Buddha breathes in, and the worlds cease to exist", and so on, ad infinitum. (And we're all the Buddha, or buddhas.) I've always found this image very comforting and grounding.

I find the same squiggly quality with conscious/unconscious represented by yang and yin, as to which is which. Are we living in darkness or in light? Do we return when we sleep or wake? When we die/depart, are we born or dead?

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What are/is "we"? A matter of perspective and perception, which leads to ...

What matters in 24 is turning around, not which way you're facing. The word "repent" means to turn around, sans the moral judgment.

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So we could say the turning around entails a shift in perception, which extends outward (or appears to extend outward, depending on where our perceptual focus is residing at the moment) into the world of material existence, of time and space.

Thank you Willowfox, Kitty and Meng for your insights. This one had me stumped, and your feedback has helped immensely.

During the waiting process, before they called with the results, I kept toggling between the text, the symbols and my gut feeling (my gut was wrong). In the symbols I saw yin in fifth position and counted that as a strike against me, as this was a leadership position interview. The no changing lines meant one of two things to me... either that this interview was the return, the repetition from last year and nothing further, or that if hired it would be a job I would stay at for a long time.

In the text I saw countless positive similarities between the reality of the interview and the words in the test. One of which was "Companions come without fault." and I know personally the members on the interview committee. Finally my gut said, things look good... things feel right... it feels like I'll get this one.

So funny how difficult it can be to keep a clear mind when one really wants something.

Schastlivchik