14 All lines changing to 8

[foxwriter]

I just went “aargh” as I saw all the red lines come up.

I had asked “What can I best do to make more money at this point?”

I’m a freelance writer and performer and educator and have had less work since the pandemic-significantly so in the last six months. Bits are coming in, I do have some savings (the result of a legacy) but I can’t currently say I’m “making a living”.

I’ve wondered whether to be more proactive or wait for things to turn around. I do have a couple of books out there, am judging a major writing competition & doing a couple of other high profile (but not well paid) things coming up.

Before I cast, I had also just been thinking that in the past I’ve spent quite a lot of money on relationships in various ways (for example, I was the main breadwinner in my marriage). I have worked with many various cultural organisations in the past and have also been thinking that I only want to work with ones I share values with in future.

The all lines changing has thrown me.
I wonder-am I being told to give in order to get (14 can be about being generous), told I do have money (and sellable skills and talents) and that I should make efforts to find out where I/these talents belong? Or that belonging and relationships (8) are more important than money? (I already think this but have just been worried I’ll keep have far more money going out than coming in).

Thoughts very welcome.

 

[rosada]

Possessions - Partners.. Maybe something along the lines of having something to sell or barter?

 

[my_key]

I had asked “What can I best do to make more money at this point?”

The all lines changing has thrown me.

14: 1.2.3.4.5.6 <> 8

Hi foxwriter

The 6 changing lines is a real 'arghh moment'. All that is passive about you or your, thoughts, feelings and behaviours in regard to this situation needs to become active and all that is active is becoming passive. Plus, there feels to be a high level of synergy going on between primary and relating hexagram. Perhaps, a thesis and antithesis producing a synthesis greater than the sum of it's parts.

'Great Harvest' through 'Seeking Union'

8 safely holding a context of bonding with what is really important for you to connect with in order to satisfy your needs.
14 directing you to focus on and promote the good in your world and not allow the baser elements to hold sway. The Decision speaks of supreme success however it gives no words on what that may look like. It's down to you to actively paint the picture that supreme success means for you.

The 6 changing lines? Perhaps an image of a bus arriving at the terminus and the shout rises up " All Change!"

...or it might mean something different for you.

Good Luck

 

[rosada]

Maybe something involving networking? Like your Possessions in Great Measure are your Connections?
“It‘s not what you know, it’s who you know“? Or “Ask around, some connection you have leads to an income opportunity”?

 

[steve]

Again , I agree with Rosada on the position of Hexagram 8, its the trying aspect that is so damn frustrating with hexagram 8 there is a lot information on that hexagram in this forum and frankly some weird stories lol. There is one i will never forget about a cop who pulls over a lady to get her phone number, then strangely the car engine burst into flames or something like this.

So the cop was forcing the date kind of thing. My interpretation is that of the trying to hard aspect or the forcing of the coming to meet with this answer. I am never over the moon when hexagram 8 is my readings when it comes to money. However, you may get the truth on the situation.

However, on the 14 aspect you are being walked through the steps to success to avoid the 8 aspect of things in my opinion. If we look at line six its quite favorable, maybe as they say in Australia your barking up the wrong tree or wasting your time with people who do not appreciate your stlye of writing, its really hard to say for me.

In summary, it appears you have talent but network in the correct places maybe.

 

[steve]

i need to add, as a writer (artists) there are alot of idiots out there that cannot see talent even if the moon dropped on their doorstep, look around, its just you cant see the forest from the trees, get a helicopter and look down on the forest.

 

[foxwriter]

Thanks all.

Synthesising these really useful thoughts, I'm drawn to thinking particularly about networking among existing connections (it has been drawn to my attention recently how I sometimes neglect to draw on them- and I've worked with and for many people over the years who value my skills) is a way forward but- as Steve cautions- in a 14 way.

So...don't go towards harmful/unsympathetic connections, load up your wagon and push on, be prepared to make some sacrifices and go with the flow in terms of other folks ideas, but have faith in your (creative truth) - and tell it- and success will come.

Even in the few days since the cast- I've been offered some work based on a piece of work I did a couple of years ago (a theatre group liked me interviewing them because we shared some interests and have asked me to host a public event for them), a new friend I met at a performance I did last year wants to work with me to put on a performance of my show for her group (both these things involve neurodiversity which is something I'm increasingly writing/talking about as a neurodivergent person), I was offered a gig at a festival where I last performed ten years ago, another at a festival where they called me a "friend of the festival".

I was going to say that this still sounds a bit passive, as opposed to the "All change!" that My_Key suggests should be happening- but in some of the instances, I've pointed out that I also have a show about neurodiversity and suggested ways this could be staged- or suggested running additional workshops. Sort of maximising the things I offer- and definitely working more within "what is really important for (me) to connect with in order to satisfy (my) needs". Oh- and I went into a local bookshop that I have a good connection with - really in order to see a new version of my book. But because I went in in person, they brought more copies out of the back and displayed them- and posted a photo on their social media. So me believing in the value of that connection inspired them to highlight it too. The other day I ran a writing workshop at quite short notice and most of the people who came were people who had been to other workshops I'd run in the past (often for other organisations- but in this case it was me independently doing it). Truly, really, I am rich in connections and relationships in my creative/working life.

 

[steve]

Yes for sure, in my business I sometimes look to try expand in new sales, new clients then come back to the realisation is that there is work I could be doing within my own database. The money is sometimes easier as I am already familiar with who I am dealing with. Many times like the scenario of the forest, there can be opportunities right under your nose.

 

[eowyndernhelme]

I'm sorry to butt in on this thread. I am new to the YiJing - and also to this site - so I have no advice, but do have a question that relates to this reading. If you'll let me tag along, I hope someone can educate me.

I have been reading all I can and have come across a site that includes "Chu Hsi's rules of changing lines."
According to that, when all lines are changing, it means to look at the "prognostication (of ) the T’uan statement of the resulting hexagram." Is this interpretation valid, or is it that one looks at the original hexagram, the lines, and then the resulting hexagram?

Thank you, and again, please excuse me for joining in without being very helpful.

 

[steve]

In my experience is when all lines are changing, the situation is very or extremley fluid there is a lot going on, meaning maybe you should anlayse things or what you are seeking on deeper level. Except in the case of Hexagram 1 changing into Hexagram 2, I believe this is a life changing experience of which I have never encountered.

 

[Liselle]

I have been reading all I can and have come across a site that includes "Chu Hsi's rules of changing lines."
According to that, when all lines are changing, it means to look at the "prognostication (of ) the T’uan statement of the resulting hexagram." Is this interpretation valid, or is it that one looks at the original hexagram, the lines, and then the resulting hexagram?

Hilary is generally not in favor of rules like this which try to simplify readings.

The relating hexagram is part of the reading and should be paid attention to in all readings, but if you were meant only to pay attention to the relating hexagram, Yi could have given it to you by itself.

Having said that, it does make sense that with that many moving lines, they might not all be equally important or equally recognizable in your situation, and/or that the lion's share of the message might be in the two hexagrams.

But it's usually a good idea to take the reading as it's given, not try to discard parts of it. If this is a reading you'll be looking at for a while, at least keep glancing over all of the line texts (and both hexagrams) every time you look at it. You never know when something will ring a bell even if it hadn't before.

 

[Liselle]

Oh, good grief. I shouldn't try to answer threads late at night, I guess.

Eowyn, this wasn't your reading, it was Foxwriter's. Everyone please just mentally re-write what I just said accordingly...sorry...