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Hi all.I asked Iching... Is my resume good enough to land a job that i like?Hexagram 26.3.6 to 19.Line 3 they will see from my resume that i am a "good horse"Line 6 i will successfully get a job i like19. Employers will approach me??My thoughts. Yes. But of course i am biased. Please help.
 

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I haven't had 26.6 a lot, but one example sticks out (and actually, I had never put it together very well until thinking about your post here - thank you :)). [Edited: but see second post - it's not put together very well after all...lol]

I had asked about buying and mailing a gift to someone in the hospital, and thought 26.6 was a very strong endorsement of doing it. However, after a lot of running around to stores, looking online and so forth, it turned out there was no way for me to actually buy the thing! So much for 26.6, I thought, and I was most unhappy with Yi.

What ended up happening, though, was that the intended recipient was in and out of the hospital much faster than expected, and the package would not have caught up with him (it had to be mailed).

I think this is an angle of 26.6 that LiSe explains well:
https://yijing.nl/hex/hex_26.html

First of all, she translates the line text as a question, "How about Heaven's highway? Expansion." and then goes on to say:

"Forms are like walls and doors and fences, shutting out the universal. Sages do not walk down the garden path, they will not settle for less than the Milky Way, the road of the gods."

If I'm understanding LiSe correctly, I think she's first suggesting we ask ourselves if we're actually on Heaven's highway. The part about "forms," applied to my example, might be: which is better or more important, the "social form" of him getting a gift from me, or that he recovered so fast?

LiSe's other point is possibly that there are small goals ("walk down the garden path") and there are wide, expansive goals ("the Milky Way, the road of the gods"). This is the last line of hexagram 26, Great Accumulating / Great Farming / Mastery - it's not the last line of hexagram 9, Small Farming / Small Accumulating - so it's probably on the side of something ambitious rather than subsistence?

Also, if 26.6 changes by itself, it changes to hexagram 11, Flow, which is often about things being swept away in a flow of events - a perfect description of someone "flowing" out of the hospital faster than a package could catch up to him. I suppose if such a flow is occurring, you'd do best to be on Heaven's side of it...

Of course there are various "angles" to almost everything in the I Ching - it can be tricky to "see" readings from the correct angle - and this particular angle might have nothing to do with your question, plus which you do have to account for line 3 as part of the reading. Maybe something to think about, though.
 
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Actually - :blush: - Hilary and Bradford Hatcher also translate 26.6 as a question:
"What is heaven's thoroughfare? Fulfillment." (Bradford)
"Is this heaven's highway? Creating success." (Hilary)

Why didn't it ever occur to me to think of that as a question, that I should ask myself and try to answer? :duh:

Although in my example I doubt it would have helped. I mean, I don't think a thought process like this would have, or maybe should have, happened:

Me: "Yi, what about sending this gift?"
Yi: 26.6 > 11
Me: "Hm. Yi's suggesting something might be swept away by events (11), and is asking if sending a gift is 'heaven's highway,' and possibly whether it's the right goal...oh, okay, I won't bother!"

There would have been no way for me to know why it wouldn't work out, and without that, sending a gift to someone in the hospital is usually a nice thing to do, and probably not something that should be given up on, based merely on a Yi reading you might not understand... how would I have felt about myself if I hadn't even tried? Answer: badly. I wasn't happy about the hours of fruitless shopping, but that was after the fact. I would have been more miserable if I hadn't even tried. Could 26.6 be saying something like, "Well, why wouldn't you?"

Hm. Perhaps back to the drawing board. ...when you've mastered something (at the end of 26), you should just make use of the experience you've accumulated? "Use your own head"? Or something...this needs more thinking about...
 
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"Take the high road"?
"Go for it"?
"Reach for the Moon"?
"What's the high-minded / expansive / fulfilling thing to do, maybe regardless of the result"?
"If you don't try, you can't succeed"?
 

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(Am thinking out loud. May not make sense.)
 

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Hi Liselle,What you wrote is interesting. Thank you. It got me thinking.26.6 heavens highway.Maybe it means "keep sending my resume"My resume should be "travelling "
 

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I realized I'm not sure what the facts are and what exactly you meant with your question. Have you sent your resume already, and your question was more what will come of it? Or were you wondering whether to send it at all? Or whether your resume needs re-writing?

Something I've thought of since then - and this is ONE guess out of probably many that might be scared up out of the reading - is that all of it together might be saying something like:

Applying for jobs is a "flow" (11 -what 26.6 changes into by itself) - someone has a suitable opening, you apply for it, someone else has an opening, you apply for that, and on and on until someone hires you. So "heaven's highway" might be "just get into that flow, why wouldn't you send your resume" - (I mean, outside of the fact that applying for jobs is a horrible soul-destroying experience, aside from THAT tiny detail) - "if you don't send it you'll have missed the 'highway'" and so forth.

And then line 3 would be "yes you have to do this over and over again" or "even if you don't get this job it could be good interview practice" or something like that.

Not sure what to say about 19, unless it's something like "you have to 'approach' them in order to have a chance," and there's also the part about expecting results before their "time," so to speak ("Arrival at the eighth month means a pitfall").
 

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Another possibility, that's more a direct answer to your question, "Is my resume good enough to land a job that I like?"

Possible interpretation: "Keep revising it, proofreading it, improving it (26.3), but you're on the right track (26.6)" - ?

(Keep in mind this is speculation, particularly about line 6 :eek:uch:.)
 

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I have sent my resume to a few agencies before i made this cast.So on the day itself after i sent my resume , i had an instinct to ask Iching if my resume is good enough.
 

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Hi olgaAny experience with 26.6?

Had it for a meditation course which turned out as a wonderful experience and a beautiful trip after so many years I didn't leave my home!
Had it again after a bike accident which ended up with a discreet sum of money into my bank account and not so much problems in my body.

Now I've just casted it for love and paid job before Christmas.
Which is really strange as I just never fall in love and I never get paid jobs (I keep working for free!).
So I am starting to think this may actually be a literally description of myself ascending to Heaven.
Also considering last summer I had asked about an image of my Mom before the end of the year and I had got her limping but with friends coming (I think it's 39.5). Well if I die she will experience great limping.
I'm already grieving all this, I'm grieving my death.
What shall I leave? What words , things, thoughts, stuff..
 

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