16.4 > 2 : Should I stay in my job for the foreseeable future?

[__dru__]

I love my job. I work in the creative arts.

COVID-19 has meant stepping back from all my activity and taking an overdue enforced break. Now that work is re-starting I am reminded that I love the people that I work with, but that the work, although rewarding, is incredibly draining, exhausting, and leaves me nothing to create with. Maybe the creation is helping others, I don't know.

I asked if I should stay in my current position for the foreseeable future.

The answer was 16.4 - 2.

I think the reading says that there is a breakthrough coming but I do not know.

 

[rosada]

2. The Receptive is in the position of receiving (rather than initiating). It is made of Earth trigrams and suggests a fertile field where any seed can grow, any idea can be considered and nurtured into fruition - but it needs the seed or the idea or it's just an empty field.

As the second hexagram, 2. often indicates for me that my idea or situation doesn't grow any further, the energies just come to rest like a quiet field. As the second hexagram for your question, "Should I stay in my current position for the foreseeable future?" I think it mirrors your sense that this work is taking everything out of you - leaving you like an empty field after harvest - but it also makes me think this could be saying, "Stay where you are until you've absolutely done everything you came to this place to do/experience."

16.4 makes me think you can attract all the help you need so perhaps this is a hint about how to survive - don't try to do it all yourself!

Bottom Line - If you're not totally burned out, I think these lines encourage you to stay. If you really feel it's time for a change I think 16.4-2 is pointing to the need to leave things in an orderly complete state and also as there doesn't seem to be a suggestion of where you might go from here perhaps a warning to give that more thought before you quit your day job!

 

[__dru__]

Thank you

it is tiring but rewarding. Trusting the team and myself is the right thing to do.