61.3.6 to 5

[Towerofsong]

Hi all, I would really appreciate your views on this reading. I moved to a foreign country 5 years ago and started a journey of a new career and life, leaving behind a difficult situation at home. The journey has also been extremely difficuly, but ot has given me the opportunity to grow and face my own repetitive patterns/false expectations and identity constructs. It has been a survival struggle and a transformative path that has slowly exhausted me and I am now at the point where I am very worried about my health, but unable to make any quick changes. It would be very prudent professionally for me to continue the journey for a bit longer (to do some additional training) before I consider moving back to my home country or doing anything else. However this is impeded because I worry about my wellbeing and health. I fear doom and gloom if I continue to exhaust myself, but don't really see a way out right now without throwing everything I've worked hard for out of the window.

I asked the oracle Will I be okay? And received 61.3.6 - 5. I assume that both changing lines may indicate instability of character, but I wonder if especially the line 6 could mean ill faith if I persevere? Hexagram 5 indicates patience in waiting, so I understand this answer as a whole to suggest temperance while remaining in the situation? I am not certain whether the answer to my question is positive or negative, not that I would expect the oracle to respond in such simplistic terms. Any additional views/perspectives/opinions on this reading would be much appreciated.

 

[radiofreewill]

Hi Towerofsong,

Welcome to Clarity!

"Will I be okay?"
61.3.6 to 5 ~ You are exhausted only because your Stories ~ if they are to be believed ~ are exhausting.

From Wilhelm-Baynes:

Six in the third place means:

He finds a comrade [someone with whom to commiserate].​

Now he beats the drum [Story-telling], now he stops [exhausted].​

Now he sobs [Will this ever end?], now he sings [yet another Story, again].​

Nine at the top means:

Cockcrow penetrating to heaven [this is a Wake-up call].​

Perseverance [in believing that 'you' are your Stories] brings misfortune.​

It's okay to seek the highest quality life that you can make for yourself, even if you have to leave your family and home country to do it? And, while it might be more challenging to go this way than the traditional route, you should still be able to find success without exhausting yourself?

Your exhaustion, imho, is a sign that you are doing your journey wrong.

Your deeper truth (61) is that you are not your Stories, but rather you are the Awareness of your Stories [wind over lake ~ penetration of Stories].



When you believe that you are your Stories, then it's just like Wilhelm says in his commentary to line 3:

"Here the source of a man's strength lies not in himself but in his relation to other people. No matter how close to them he may be, if his center of gravity depends on them, he is inevitably tossed to and fro between joy and sorrow. Rejoicing to high heaven, then sad unto death - this is the fate of those who depend upon an inner accord with other persons whom they love."​

On the other hand, when you are in the Witness Position as the Awareness of your Stories (starring your ego), it is effortless to watch yourself thrashing around in the Washer Machine of your Stories, their feelings and their familiar anxieties...

...and *know* for yourself: This is suffering...and it's not me.

The key then becomes Staying in the Witness Position ~ where Awareness is effortless ~ and not falling back into believing that you are your Stories ~ which is exhausting.

If you can patiently perfect a practice of getting-in and staying-in the Witness Position of the Present Moment, then you will be okay:



Good luck, and I hope this helps!

 

[Towerofsong]

Dear Radiofreewill,

Thank you for the welcome and for a very insightful and accurate summary of my difficulty! You are absolutely right in that the exhausting error of my journey is the focus on the ego and the propensity to react to my anxieties, lacking centre, stability and measure. In hidlndsight, I think this is the main purpose of my journey rather than attaining any other external stability, even though that was what drove me to migrate in the first place. As much as I can relate to everything you say (thank you for the lovely diagrams!), discarding old patterns of reacting (which stem from primary insecure attachments and are therefore deeply inscribed in the notion of the world as essentially insecure) is a process rather than a decision. It might take some time, but the direction is clear and growing awareness is the first step forward. Thank you for reminding me where the problem really lies.