25.2.5-38 is this a real opportunity or should I escape

[Miss_understood]

Hello dear friends,
A few weeks ago a friend of mine presented me with what seemed to be an exciting business opportunity that became available in light of the COVID crisis. In a very nice touristic area of the city a Café/bar performance space was up for grabs: the previous owner went bankrupt and the space was empty and waiting for us to take over.... the owner of the complex agreed to give us a period of grace of a couple of months rent and bill free. The previous owner left behind all the stuff for us to run the place and we happily started thinking and dreaming together of all the exciting things we can do...
A dream come true. now two weeks into it I feel that maybe it wasn’t such a good idea..,, My friend is very erratic and unstable, everything seems chaotic and I am spending all my time there neglecting my family. I’m not sure if it is worth my while to stick around or if I should make a run as soon as possible before I entangle myself any more...
I asked if I should continue with this venture or move on and I got
25.2.5 to 38
I understand from that that it is best not to get entangled any further.
Any insights?
Thank you in advance for your time and knowledge,
Miss-understood

 

[Trojina]

This right here is line 2

In a very nice touristic area of the city a Café/bar performance space was up for grabs: the previous owner went bankrupt and the space was empty and waiting for us to take over.... the owner of the complex agreed to give us a period of grace of a couple of months rent and bill free. The previous owner left behind all the stuff for us to run the place and we happily started thinking and dreaming together of all the exciting things we can do...

It's such a mysterious line, can't say I have the gist of it other than it does seem to show up to do with dealing with things that are already there for you. Hilary's translation from wiki

'No ploughing, reaping.
No cleared land, ploughland.
And so there is harvest in having a direction to go.'

Oh and I seem to have written of my experiences with the line a long time ago, I forgot that, here it is from wikiwing

For me several times this has been clear advice not to consider that previous work on or investment in something is a good reason to keep going on with it. It is quite a usual ingrained habit (from what we are taught) for us to think 'hmm I already did quite a lot of work on this so now I started I should keep going and expand on it or complete it'. But whilst this is generally a good attitude here it isn't best for us. We are in 25 so this is to do with disentangling from previous efforts not trying to build upon them. I think this can be quite a hard thing to do because we naturally do want to build on previous work. It could perhaps be seen as 'cutting one's losses' and then there's harvest in a fresh direction.

In one situation I had purchased things in order to set up a project but the project wasn't really getting anywhere. In hindsight I can see it was better to just write off the cost and move on elsewhere but I was a little stuck on thinking 'but I already bought all these things !!'.

In another instance having given a fair amount of time to and made some progress in an arts interest I really wanted it to 'go somewhere' or develop but it was better, in hindsight again, to forget whatever investment was made, leave it and move on.

From a slightly different angle another example is where an aggressive woman was using the dryer in my allocated wash time slot in the block of flats I live in. She was blatantly trespassing boundaries but also quite scary not friendly and amenable to requests I thought ! Her wash was already in the dryer I needed to use. I consulted and got 25.1.2.5>64 about it. I decided that just because her laundry was already in the dryer it didn't mean it had to go on being. I decided I had to 'face her down' told her to take it out and after a lengthy staring match she complied. She undid what she had begun and we could disentangle from that situation. (Trojina)

I think I'd stay with what I said there really, but that's only my experience, I don't think the line is that clear.



It's odd that for me it's come up in almost similar circumstances to you. I was offered a room to work from, already set up, sort of just there for me to use so I bought a few things for it- it didn't work out anyway.



25.5 on the other hand I find pretty clear, if there's a problem or an issue it will resolve itself.



For that reason I could easily see this as things will sort themselves out but I think here that means this situation will just fold. You choose how to see this, either it means any issues you have will iron out so carry on OR it means this is an unexpected things that you can easily get out of.



I mean there's so much happenstance in 25, people offer rooms to me, people offer a bar to you and it all seems good but, well it just isn't always. Yet I can't say either really this means yes give up.


What about the 38 'Disentangled Difference'. Well mostly are you and your colleague seeing this a totally different way ? Overall this cast has a flimsy feel to it, it doesn't give me the sense of solid hard work or commitment and you do have other commitments.

Yi isn't really telling you what to do but my feeling is to call it a day, yes. Of course you may want to ask specifically about stopping because you have 2 options in the question

I asked if I should continue with this venture or move on and I got

I think move on with this cast. You've got something chancy (25) you're really divided about (38) to make something like this work you'd have to have much more solid focus and more solid workmates too I guess.


It can never be good to neglect your family can it though

 

[Trojina]

Also taking from Hilary's commentary in her book she says you could easily get very busy with line 2 without actually stopping to consider what you really want to happen or achieve. I think that's a good point.

For me I was offered a room to work in so I thought 'ooh it's meant to be fell into my lap' but even if things fall into your lap as' the bar did it may not really get you where you want to be.


None of this is saying 'don't do it' it just looks a bit 'meh' to me. Also running a cafe/bar in covid time is quite a haul I imagine.

I don't know what country you are in but in the UK there's a second wave expected in winter and if there's another lockdown then it's a disaster. Also if you have a family at home and you are working in a public place that's a worry.


I mean I'm not sure of the 38 here, it could be your divided interests. Your priority is likely keeping your family well so hard to run a cafe at the same time but I guess you have thought about all that.