11.2.6 > 22 what am i really good at that i can monetize

[danceofthegods]

Hi All,

I'm trying to figure out how to focus and orient myself in terms of making a living doing something that I am good at and gives me the ability to do a good job as well as benefit others.

I want to be good at what I do that helps me pay the bills and live a life. I want to know I am valued. I want to know I am doing something that not only brings me pleasure but benefits my boss/company/client/world somehow. That would be ideal. Really nice. I wonder what that would be. I wonder where my real strength lies.

My question was: What am i really good at that i can monetize 11.2.6 > 22

My thoughts on the reading: Well, not that clear. 11 is peace, flow and seeing the big picture instead of focusing on small things and being petty. I do tend to focus on the trees for the forest, and get bogged down in inconsequential details.

My thought on line 2 is I got a job offer abroad in another country. That could be to cross the river on a boat. And it will be to teach so maybe that refers to the uncultivated.

My thought on line 6 is...oooh that sounds bad. "[We shall be blamed for not being more aggressive even though circumstances more than warrant our failure to be so.]" Maybe this means I should be more passionate, proactive, and work harder at everything. But it does say to not fight things and submit to fate. It says also that a distinction is dissolved and a belief is shattered. Sounds scary. and sad. OR maybe it is talking to me about the job abroad to teach ... I need a work permit and that is taking a while and there are some stumbling blocks with the government...maybe it means that the disaster is that I do not get the permit and cannot go there to work?

AND, how does this all relate to 22? This i have no clue. Except maybe it is referring to the craft/design job that I do on the side?

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Line-2

Legge: The second line, dynamic, shows one who can bear with the uncultivated, will cross the river without a boat, does not forget the distant, and has no selfish friendships. Thus does he prove himself acting in accordance with the due mean.

Confucius/Legge: His intelligence is bright and his capacity is great. Wilhelm/Baynes: Because the light is great. Blofeld: A middle course can be steered because the situation is so brilliantly clear. Ritsema/Karcher: Using the shining great indeed. Cleary (2): Due to greatness of illumination. Wu: Indicate an ability to attain enlightenment.

Siu: The man observes the mean during times of peace. He is magnanimous toward the uncultivated, ready for necessary risks, watchful over future possibilities, and independent of cliques and factions.

Wing: During Prospering times it is important to hold to worthy attitudes and behavior in order to achieve your aim. You now have a responsibility to undertake difficult tasks, to be tolerant of all people, and to maintain far-reaching visions. Avoid getting involved in current factions and special-interest groups.



Line-6

Legge: The sixth line, magnetic, shows us the city wall returned to the moat. It is not the time to use the army. The subject of the line may announce her orders to the people of her own city; but however firm and correct she may be, she will have cause for regret.

Wilhelm/Baynes: The wall falls back into the moat. Use no army now. Make your commands known within your own town. Perseverance brings humiliation.

Blofeld: The wall has tumbled into the moat; do not put up a fight, but just maintain order in the village. Although this is the right course blame cannot be avoided. [We shall be blamed for not being more aggressive even though circumstances more than warrant our failure to be so.]

COMMENTARY​

Confucius/Legge: The governmental orders have long been in disorder. Wilhelm/Baynes: His plans fall into confusion. Blofeld: This signifies a troubled destiny. Ritsema/Karcher: One's fate disarrayed indeed. Cleary (2): Order is in disarray. Wu: The orders have been contradictory.

Legge: The course denoted by Harmony has been run, and will be followed by one of a different and unhappy character. The earth dug from the moat had been built up to form a projecting wall, but it is now again fallen into the ditch. War will only aggravate the evil, and however the ruler may address good proclamations to the people of the capital, the coming evil cannot be altogether averted.

NOTES AND PARAPHRASES​

Siu: The government has long been in disarray. Despite all proclamations to the contrary, ill fortune is at hand. War will only aggravate the situation. The subject should submit to fate, keep inwardly free, and ameliorate the harm done to those nearest him. The bad time will pass.

Wing: A decline has begun. It is of the external world, and nothing can be done to hold it back. Such attempts will bring you humiliation. Instead, devote your time to strengthening your ties with those close to you.

A. A distinction is dissolved, a belief is shattered. Don't fight it -- let it be. Change is in process and confusion prevails -- control your emotions and maintain order within the psyche. Despite turmoil, take no action -- allow the transformation to complete itself.

 

[rosada]

Work at a library or as a church secretary. Something that uses your abilities to help people make connections with ideas and ideals.

 

[rosada]

Giving these lines more thought:
11.2 Seems to describe walking your path amongst others. So you seem to be good at being around other people with out being distracted. So something that rewards you for your ability to stay focused while being aware of others. Like a docent at an art gallery or museum?
11.6 seems to describe being aware of things that are ending, dissolving. So maybe some sort of work that involves sorting things out at endings? Do you have an eye for bargains at estate sales?

Really curious now. What do you see in these lines?

I wonder if 22 as your resulting hexagram is saying it’s important that you have a vision or a goal to draw you forward? Like if you are inspired to save the whales perhaps focusing on this goal will reveal ways to make money to reach this goal.

 

[Trojina]

I think I got t his exact same cast for 'why can't I make enough money to live on ?' I think the cast is about more than making money. 22 is very much the roles you play, you take on, it's a bit like being an actor in life with different masks (22) You do this to travel light (11.2) What I'm trying to say is as you travel through life jobs are like roles/masks you take on and off in order to travel lightly. Life is moving you forward, it always is but that doesn't necessarily equate to a really good job with good money. I think you have an answer that was bigger than the question.


Money is very 22 stuff, it's illusory. yes real enough when you don't have it but nonetheless life matters more than money, money is part of the flow and to get in you may be required to play different parts. But any idea of money and earning as defence (11.6) can be dropped because it actually isn't the 'main point' any more.

 

[danceofthegods]

Dear Rosada and Trojina,

Thank you for taking the time and effort to think on this casting of mine. They are both deep and insightful. I must say, I still don't really understand the meaning of the cast 11.2.6>22. Both hexagrams esp 22 are hard to understand for me in general so I need to ruminate on it a little more. I'm going to chew on what you have written. They definitely struck something in me and made me see it in different lights. I will come back to this and answer after i have given it more thought. Thank you again.

11.6 in particular is still a complete mystery to me. Rosada, you mentioned it pertains to endings. Interesting! Ok I will think on that more. line 6 seems so ominous though. It says that evil will reign and cannot be avoided. Am I the one that brings on this evil through my actions? How could this relate to what Trojina said about the answer being bigger than the question and not just about money? I think she is right esp line 6 how that is addressing something bigger.

Rosada, I also like libraries and it's one place I'd love to have a job in! hehe
Trojina, Wow so cool that you remember that you had the same cast for a similar question, albeit kinda worded the opposite of mine. like a mirror.

I guess I should not really focus on getting a lot money or becoming rich. It seems like my life is meant for more than mere riches (which I don't have). Oh well. As long as I can be of valuable service and live comfortably. I still wonder what this cast means in regards to my question or the bigger question within this question. Thanks for your replies. I will be back.

 

[rosada]

I don't think 11.6 is telling you anything ominous. Think of 11. Peace describing a story, a fairy tale, in 11.5 the boy and girl get married and live happily ever after. 11.6, the sand castle is washed away by the tide, the story is over, time to wake up. (If you push to know what happened next to the bride and groom you'll only be disappointed, as 11. Peace leads to 12. Stagnation. She gets fat and he takes up golf. Better to leave it here.)
For your work this may be describing you doing free lancing or working for a temp agency. It could also be 22. warning not to be always searching for the ideal job as it's made up of Fire at the foot of Mountain and thus indicates a small light that doesn't illuminate more than the immediate campsite, thus indicating a situation where one may be making assumptions based on limited knowledge, especially if one is making overly optimistic assumptions. Still it can be a positive sign if the question involves a search for beauty, just as friendship thrives around an open camp fire - even if things don't seem quite so rosy in the light of day.

 

[BonBon]

She gets fat and he takes up golf. Better to leave it here.)

 

[danceofthegods]

Giving these lines more thought:
11.2 Seems to describe walking your path amongst others. So you seem to be good at being around other people with out being distracted. So something that rewards you for your ability to stay focused while being aware of others. Like a docent at an art gallery or museum?
11.6 seems to describe being aware of things that are ending, dissolving. So maybe some sort of work that involves sorting things out at endings? Do you have an eye for bargains at estate sales?

Really curious now. What do you see in these lines?

I wonder if 22 as your resulting hexagram is saying it’s important that you have a vision or a goal to draw you forward?

Gosh Rosada, I am still stumpted by this. I have been getting 22 quite often lately for other inquiries too. 22 is not clear to me.

To answer your question of what I see in these lines:
11.2 it speaks of crossing the waters and being amongst the uneducated. I have a job offer to go abroad and teach kids. It will not be an art related job, though, which is what 22 seems to refer to. The location of the school is like hex 22: a fire at the foot of the mountains.

11.6 if it means speaking of endings, it might refer to my ending my life here in my current country of residence, or of ending my insistence on having a job in the design industry which I had wanted for a long time but now have given up for the teaching job instead. maybe it says I should be ok with giving it up in my heart, of ending it, and go all in to teaching instead of looking back at design.

Hex 22...well now this is where it's hard. If 22 is the background, then what I said above makes sense. If 22 is the future, then...am I supposed to be doing something in design abroad or something??

So those are my (muddy) thoughts!

I need a visa to go to the country abroad to teach. I asked: "What will come of my visa application?" I got 31.1.3.5 > 51
1) influence in the big toes. There is a stirring of desire but nothing big coming of it yet.
3) influence in the thighs. Going on shame. I want it bad but maybe it's all emotion and not enough logical thinking on what it will all entail on my part.
5) influence in the neck/heart. My desire for this is correctly and deeply rooted in my heart (center) and so things will come well since my desire is well rooted and placed. I will go forward past small obstacles.

relating hex 51 : i will be shocked and scared but relieved in the end. Hm. I hope this means I get it in the end. Any thoughts, please?

 

[Trojina]

I'd advice you never take the relating hexagram as what you 'will' be, it's not a helpful approach. The relating hexagram encompasses or is the whole context of the question, where you are coming from, the flavour of the time. It can include elements of the future because it flows all around the answer, the sea the primary swims in (can't recall who said that) but the primary isn't leading to the inevitable 'result' of the relating, the two can be read together at the same time.

Going back to 11.2.6>22 you did ask a specific question but I'm reluctant to take the answer as actually describing what you're good at, I think the answer is referring to the period of life that you are in.

11, you are in the flow of changes being moved along quite quickly without necessarily knowing where (change patterns 4/49) To move on lightly it is as if you cross the river with a hollow gourd only. This isn't about being with others, it's about needing to leave them for a while so you can go forward with less baggage. You don't forget them or necessarily lose them but it is a time of a kind of loneliness since there's a quest whether that's a conscious quest or not. Re line 6 I don't think you have to pin it down to any actual endings though there may be endings, it's more a time of it gradually dawning on you that the goals you have defended, these might be beliefs or relationships, things you thought you 'stood for', there's no need to stand for any more. Things have changed, the wall has fallen into the moat, the boundaries that were there aren't there and there is 'shame' in continuing to be constant to old ideals when they no longer serve. So what has been most important as a guiding principle may not be and you need to feel into what that might be for you.



You can see how lines 2 and 6 connect here well if you join them up as a story. There's someone needing to let go of what is familiar in order to make some kind of crossing in their life. They need to be free to do this and this can feel lonely and scary. To be free it may be necessary to realise somethings that you once defended or guarded no longer needs to be guarded. 11.6 often comes up when one might have all kinds of reserves and defences in place where none are needed. If one ges on acting like these defences were needed one misses the opportunity to walk away from the place you were guarding into new territory (11.6)

Change patterns (hexagrams you get when you makes all change lines yang then all yin) are 4 yang 49 yin. What bought you to ask this question was the awareness of not knowing how a big change can happen, you can't know how it can happen. You have to travel light with very little to go on (11.2) and also needing to let go of certain things you thought you were fighting for (11.6). 22 can be to do with how you are seeing things, it's like a cover, a form of something that can be both protective and deceptive. 22 is to do with how you present self or how you represent situation to others. It can help to have a cover, most people have a 'story'. So imagine as a traveller you are going to meet a lot of people who say 'who are you and what do you do ?' the title of 'what you do' can be anything from 'this is my gap year' to 'I need to find myself' to 'I'm on holiday' - that can be all 22 stuff, it's appearance and presentation which can help you especially when trying to travel light. There's a good thread on 22 somewhere will link...It can also mean you need to think short term more than have long term views.

Indeed if you are trying to think long term this cast could well be saying to spare yourself that effort and focus on just getting going and taking the next step when it comes. I think making money can be like that anyway. You started with the idea there was this thing you were good at you could monetize but Yi is saying don't carry all that with you just go into the flow taking the next step as it arises and being fairly fluid with the 'job description' (22)you give yourself. I think 22 here can be the need/wish for 'job description' but this needn't be heavy it can just be roles you undertake for the time being. The current 'job description' can never be as important as the life journey you are really on and that doesn't fit neatly to the job descriptions. Use the 22, the roles, the facades, to aid your journey not to limit it or set it down as one particular thing.

Hex 22...well now this is where it's hard. If 22 is the background, then what I said above makes sense. If 22 is the future, then...am I supposed to be doing something in design abroad or something??

There is no 'supposed to' it's your journey to make. No one has decided there is a right path you are supposed to be doing, that's quite a harmful idea fostered by new age literature and the result is it makes many feel as if they are doing the wrong thing and there is a right thing they are 'supposed' to be doing. Living your life can not be the wrong thing, you can take many different roles (22) in riding the flow of your life (11.2.6) don't take the role you play for the complete truth of who you are (22)

I need a visa to go to the country abroad to teach. I asked: "What will come of my visa application?" I got 31.1.3.5 > 51
1) influence in the big toes. There is a stirring of desire but nothing big coming of it yet.
3) influence in the thighs. Going on shame. I want it bad but maybe it's all emotion and not enough logical thinking on what it will all entail on my part.
5) influence in the neck/heart. My desire for this is correctly and deeply rooted in my heart (center) and so things will come well since my desire is well rooted and placed. I will go forward past small obstacles.

relating hex 51 : i will be shocked and scared but relieved in the end. Hm. I hope this means I get it in the end. Any thoughts, please?

If you plan to travel abroad then 11.2 is very apt and so is 11.6 and 22. You need a protective cloak/mask (22) to play different roles. In a sense a visa is quite 22ish, a representation of who you are.

I'm not sure about this answer. My gut feeling is you will get it, that it's already in the pipelines (change patterns 63/64) I'd take the 51 as how you feel, scared and apprehensive partly because you still aren't very sure about what you're doing ? Or it could be you get the visa but don't get the job....that's how I'm seeing 31.1.3, that maybe you are banking too much on one particular source of teaching work ? I think you know what you're doing, it's just there's possibly a bit of mismatched timing between visa and job...or something ? I think you're right about the 31.5, you are on track even if things don't fall into alignment.

This doesn't mean you have to do the teaching or any other particular thing. I think one's life's work is the whole of one's life - it's all work, relationships, dealing with your own thoughts and feelings, figuring out how to get money, it's all work. There may be one specific thing you are good at you can monetize but I do feel the casts are asking you not to cling to any fixed idea of what you must be. You can relax your grip a bit a 'go with the flow' well you did get 11.

 

[danceofthegods]

Use the 22, the roles, the facades, to aid your journey not to limit it or set it down as one particular thing.


I'm not sure about this answer. My gut feeling is you will get it, that it's already in the pipelines (change patterns 63/64)

Good GOD Trojina. Good god. Thank you. A DEEEEEEP BOW to you of deep respect and thanks for this AMAZING read. I tried to cut parts that really spoke to me and I can't really because it ALL does. the two lines above of yours that I do quote here in this reply are where I went "Whoa" and it was so deep and healing and revealing of the depth of this yi answer. I resonated with everything you said. Everything had a place and I saw the relevance to my reality.

The second line of yours above that I quote is where I was so grateful for the second opinion of my probability of getting the visa. I've been praying for it these past three days, see, and the energy when I pray for it is one of me passing easily through borders and boundaries energetically and physically. IT's partly my prayer and partly an inner feeling I am trying to generate.

This garbled reply of mine cannot truly express how amazing your answer was and how moved I am at your knowledge and kindness to answer me. Thank you, so much. HUGS.

 

[Trojina]

Thank you for the appreciation but remember I don't know if you will get the visa from that reading, it was only my feeling was more that you'd get it than you wouldn't but I am not certain, don't want to raise your hopes too much.

 

[danceofthegods]

Thank you for the appreciation but remember I don't know if you will get the visa from that reading, it was only my feeling was more that you'd get it than you wouldn't but I am not certain, don't want to raise your hopes too much.

Of course! Don't worry about that. I know it can go either way. Sometimes, a little 1% extra of positivity can go a long way.

 

[danceofthegods]

My gut feeling is you will get it, that it's already in the pipelines (change patterns 63/64) I'd take the 51 as how you feel, scared and apprehensive partly because you still aren't very sure about what you're doing ? Or it could be you get the visa but don't get the job....that's how I'm seeing 31.1.3, that maybe you are banking too much on one particular source of teaching work ? I think you know what you're doing, it's just there's possibly a bit of mismatched timing between visa and job...or something ? I think you're right about the 31.5, you are on track even if things don't fall into alignment.

FYI, I printed your answer out in full and reread it. Kinda cried maybe just a little. I feel like I am on the verge of a life change, momentous time, and this move is a part of it. It might not come to pass or it might, but something has got to change. Even if I don't move abroad, my thinking and attitude to my job/career/22persona has to be re-done. like 11.6, I don't need to keep defending old walls that have been outdated for years and years already.

As for the quote of yours in this reply regarding the visa 31.1.3.5>51, I'd like to give a little more info for your intellectual benefit if you are interested, and also for possible deeper reading if applicable. The visa was going well a few months ago but then there was a three month hiccup/delay because we thought I was not eligible.

Long story short, the school yelled at the government officials for doing a hack job on the process and of being unprofessional. everyone was thus made confused and all were perturbed consternation and perplexed. No one knew how to go forward as it was all our first time doing this process.

So we did finally figure out that I am eligible and started process early this month. But the fear now is that the government officials are in a huff at us and if they are in a bad mood, they might deny me the visa (which might account for the 51). These, of course, are unfounded speculations based on worry, fear, and an attachment to getting the visa. I am aware of that. That is why I am praying for a positive outlook on my part and to send good energy to pass obstacles to the government officials so that things go well.

31.3 might be referring to the heated energy of the school yelling at the gov't officials and everyone in a tizzy over the possibility of my not being eligible for the visa (influence in the thighs, where thoughts take a back seat to heated arousal and emotion).

31.5 might refer to my stance now, strong and ready to go forward, as well as the school's stance too.

I'm just worried about that 51.

 

[Trojina]

Attraction's Shock is the sentence it makes. The shock of receiving ? In my own readings I find 51refers mostly to how it's affected me inside or will affect me inside which is why the text says despite the fear the sacrificial ladle, that which is most precious, is not dropped. A thing can not appear shocking but still be shocking on the inside. It sounds like you already had plenty of shock and disruption and in a sense that is what you are living within. 31 is to do with making space for others, the give and take between people, influence and this is an appeal you are making. Asking for a visa is requesting you be accommodated, that space be made for you. You are asking them to receive/accept you, the change pattern doesn't feel like refusal and there's space in that 31, gaps reflected in the lines that just make it seem not a closed thing to me, not a solid no. My impression generally is there's plenty of room for movement. It gives me the impression of someone banging loudly (51) at a door to gain entry/find acceptance within (31). It's quite turbulent as banging on a door is but there's no reason to think this will end in a 'no'.

Others may disagree but that's how I'd see it if it were my reading.

 

[danceofthegods]

Thank you again, Trojina!

 

[rosada]

And thank you, danceofthegods, for mentioning that in your prayers you see yourself passing easily through boarders and boundaries both physically and energetically. I think that is a terrific description of the phase we go through at 20 - 21 - 22.
20. View. We get a wider view of our circumstances and thus see not only the "Promised Land", our goal but also...
21. The Obstacles we must Bite Through to get to..
22. The Promised Land.

I mean, 22 Grace is such a feeling of a nebulous, undefined even deceptive fantasy and 21 Obstacles is such a real seemingly solid restriction. How to get past it? Well, we're told that when we want something we have to match it's vibration so maybe 22 is saying that to get past the restrictions our best route is through prayer where boarders and boundaries are meaningless. Anyway, that's the idea your post has given me.

 

[danceofthegods]

...we're told that when we want something we have to match it's vibration...

This is really something I've been learning about this past summer. I'm starting to get it. And I'm glad you bring it up like this to show me, Rosada, how I am manifesting the mental learning I did this summer into action.

I think if one has no internal restrictions on one's desires, the desires will be made real. Except these pesky internal restrictions - sometimes I have without even knowing I have them and then get confused why things aren't working out the way I so desperately want them to. The key, I've been taught, is that desperately wanting something is an energy of desperation, of lacking it utterly, not of positivity or sincerity toward the object of desire. And the opposite of that is not to wish it harder but to get myself to a state of feeling of having it already, of it on its way because it is already mine. Not to reach for it with begging hands but to lean back and open my hands to receive it. Not saying it's easy but boy am I glad I learned it now at least. Better late than never and I hope I remember to apply this as often as I can remember to! To be honest, I am really really not good at it. I'm a total newbie.

I mean, 22 Grace is such a feeling of a nebulous, undefined even deceptive fantasy and 21 Obstacles is such a real seemingly solid restriction.

I wonder if 22 is kind of like what samsara/mara is. It seems so real, but it's all a dream and an illusion. We are so mired in it but one flick of an eye, one slight change in perception, and it all fades away to the emptiness/unprojected white underneath.

 

[danceofthegods]

Also how do I know I got replies to my queries? Nothing shows up in my notification or inbox on this site, and I am guessing when someone answers, we don't get email notification either to the email address we submitted when we signed up. I only knew you all answered when I went into shared reading and looked for my original post and saw that the count of answers had gone up. Is there another way to know we got replies in case we don't check manually on all our postings?

 

[Trojina]

I don't think we can get whatever we want in life through power of intention, there are bigger forces around us and also there's our own karma for want of a better word. That is on one lifetime we may not be able to get certain things because actually in the bigger picture they might not be good for us.

Re 'manifestation' I do it all the time without using any intention it just happens by itself in weird ways like one day I thought 'I need a small frying pan' and then there was a new one in the lobby (people leave stuff in lobby for others to take).

I wonder if 22 is kind of like what samsara/mara is. It seems so real, but it's all a dream and an illusion. We are so mired in it but one flick of an eye, one slight change in perception, and it all fades away to the emptiness/unprojected white underneath.

It can be but that isn't all it is because without having an appearance of some kind nothing can be identified. We need to identify who we everyday in every situation and without being able to do that we wouldn't even recognise each other. All kinds of marketing need 22 to sell their products and sometimes we need a title to assist us in our work 'hello children this is Jane and she is your teaching assistant' so Jane dons the outfit, the persona of that role which is pretty useful.

I think really 16 has as much if not more to do with illusion than 22. LiSe use to call 22 'flower power' and of course the appearance of the flower is everything to the bees and the insects so I don't think one can only see 22 as illusion - it's a very basic need/function to be able to display who you are. It can be deceptive but it's more likely to actually show who you are, to reveal a little bit of what is underneath. Girls and boys are never going to get together unless they see each other, an artist can't earn money unless she has a 'shop window' of some kind. There's so much in 22 that one can't just say '22 is illusion' .

 

[Trojina]

Also how do I know I got replies to my queries? Nothing shows up in my notification or inbox on this site, and I am guessing when someone answers, we don't get email notification either to the email address we submitted when we signed up. I only knew you all answered when I went into shared reading and looked for my original post and saw that the count of answers had gone up. Is there another way to know we got replies in case we don't check manually on all our postings?

Go to 'Community' tab at the top, then to 'membership' then to 'forum settings' and you should see options of how you can receive alerts through email etc.

Also if you scroll right down there's all the latest posts I think. I tend to just look at the number of replies.

 

[danceofthegods]

I think really 16 has as much if not more to do with illusion than 22. LiSe use to call 22 'flower power' and of course the appearance of the flower is everything to the bees and the insects so I don't think one can only see 22 as illusion - it's a very basic need/function to be able to display who you are. It can be deceptive but it's more likely to actually show who you are, to reveal a little bit of what is underneath. Girls and boys are never going to get together unless they see each other, an artist can't earn money unless she has a 'shop window' of some kind. There's so much in 22 that one can't just say '22 is illusion' .

Ah yes I see that. 16... I used to think such good things of it (enthusiasm after all can't be bad!) but then I read it also meant something like self-deception. boohoo. So it took on a double edged sword feeling for me. 16 is another hex that I don't really get and look at sideways when I get it. Yes, you're right that 22 is also called flower power so it's appearance is kind of like proof of that is going on internally.

I don't think we can get whatever we want in life through power of intention, there are bigger forces around us and also there's our own karma for want of a better word. That is on one lifetime we may not be able to get certain things because actually in the bigger picture they might not be good for us.

Re 'manifestation' I do it all the time without using any intention it just happens by itself in weird ways like one day I thought 'I need a small frying pan' and then there was a new one in the lobby (people leave stuff in lobby for others to take).

Yes, I didn't mean anything and everything, for sure. Thanks for bringing me back from going too far out into space lol with this idea/metaphor of manifesting what you want. I still have a lot to think on and clarify in my mind on this. I guess what I meant is, things will flow better in life in general when I can get past the feeling like I lack things or I am not deserving to go after things I want and therefore I will allow myself to give up and feel sad. Things flow better when I'm not letting my energy get anchored down by over worry and denial. It's a dark hole once I get there and hard hard hard to get out of that by oneself. Sometimes, it's such a blessing when a kindly person lends an outstretched hand and lifts one up, even if just a little to see more of the light and power within. Speaking from personal experience, of course.

 

[Trojina]

I was chuckling to myself earlier over my example of manifestation being a frying pan I was walking along and I suddenly thought well most people would like more than a frying pan ! What I was trying to say was in things like that, tangible objects I need very weird manifestations happen without me even trying.

I do think giving up and feeling sad should never really be the reality and it's funny you mention that because the other day I was pondering how often I had indulged in that, still do to a degree and it's never the truth of what's happening. Sure one might have to give the idea of something up and feel some sadness but it should never be a place to stay, a reality in itself, whatever happens has to be the next step on the road. And yes it is important to believe one has the power to change one's life, I'm still working on that one.

Re 22 and 16, all hexagrams will hold the whole realm of that area of meaning. So 16 inspiration, being moved to feel enthused, having a vision, preparing in one's mind, all these are necessary and can be good but the flip side be making pies in the sky or even building up fears out of nothing. The pair, 15, brings it all back to ground level.

Without an appearance(22) nothing can be represented. But all appearances are fleeting and can sometimes be deceptive but that doesn't mean that 22 always means deceptiveness, it can mean making a form to carry things through.

I do hope you get your visa, let us know

 

[danceofthegods]

I was chuckling to myself earlier over my example of manifestation being a frying pan

Yes, I thought that example of the frying pan was funny! and very convenient.

I do think giving up and feeling sad should never really be the reality and ... it's never the truth of what's happening. Sure one might have to give the idea of something up and feel some sadness but it should never be a place to stay, a reality in itself, whatever happens has to be the next step on the road. And yes it is important to believe one has the power to change one's life, I'm still working on that one.

This is helpful to hear. Thanks!!!

16 inspiration, being moved to feel enthused, having a vision, preparing in one's mind, all these are necessary and can be good but the flip side be making pies in the sky or even building up fears out of nothing.

Without an appearance(22) nothing can be represented.

Ah~~~I do like the positive side of 16. And I'm slowly beginning to get a feel for 22 by posting my 22 castings for help interpreting them on onlineclarity.

I do hope you get your visa, let us know

I definitely will let you know! I and I hope I get it too. I prayed today as well.