9.1> 57

[corvinnclaedh]

Lately I've been feeling drained and apathetic. It's to the point where it is interfering with my school work, so I asked the Oracle, "what is the purpose behind this feeling?" I oscillate between feeling excited to finally be training for something useful and helpful for people and feeling as if I should be doing something else. At this point, I'm six weeks away from graduation, so I don't intend on quitting, but its hard to feel motivated when my passion isn't behind this. Any thoughts on this reading?

 

[Liselle]

Hi Corvinnclaedh,

9.1 from Hilary's book:

"Returning to your own path,
How could you be wrong?
Good fortune."

Do you think this could just be a normal low spell? Not to imply that feeling like that is good in any way, but I think a lot of people have times when they are apathetic or disillusioned with what they're doing, even when they are basically happy with it. No one is excited and motivated all the time.

It might also be a fairly normal reaction to wonder, as you're completing school or training of some sort, if you've made the right decision for your life. It might be sinking in that you've committed to this path, and that can be scary.

But I think the reading says that you'll get over feeling like that, because it's "your own path." It ends in "good fortune."

LiSe Heyboer has this to say in her commentary (I added the underlining):

"Go your own road. When you stray off, then go back again. Sometimes it will be difficult, people expecting you to act in a certain way, you yourself insecure or convinced another way is better. Being and doing what you essentially are, can never be wrong".

 

[pocossin]

What is the purpose behind this feeling?
9.1> 57

When something we have greatly desired comes within easy reach, it loses its attraction. I have seen a cat following a mouse, and the mouse, within easy reach, stand still, and the cat turn away. The ennui of attainment. I am in the same situation. I now have the solution to a problem I have worked on, off and on, much of my life and which could be of financial benefit to a friend, but I have been unable to work on it today.

 

[xuesongyu]

Hex 9 stands for "a small amount of resources", which means that your resources and experiences are not enough, you have not made full preparation for changing a job. Hex 9.1 suggests that you should go back to your business. Hex 57 means that you should follow orders from above, than you will do better.

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Lately I've been feeling drained and apathetic. It's to the point where it is interfering with my school work, so I asked the Oracle, "what is the purpose behind this feeling?" I oscillate between feeling excited to finally be training for something useful and helpful for people and feeling as if I should be doing something else. At this point, I'm six weeks away from graduation, so I don't intend on quitting, but its hard to feel motivated when my passion isn't behind this. Any thoughts on this reading?

 

[corvinnclaedh]

Thank you all for your insight. I feel I should mention that this career I am training for was never a dream of mine and I wound up choosing it for...less than wise reasons; however, I do not regret this experience as it has taught me many valuable things outside of the profession and assisted in revealing what I truly would like to accomplish. I say this because of the line that states returning to your own path. Perhaps in seeing how this current experience aligns with what I hope to achieve will aid me in finding my motivation again.

 

[Liselle]

Hi Corvinnclaedh,

That's interesting...are you saying you think feeling like this is helping you realize that this career is NOT what you want? I can see how maybe finding your path could involve starting down other paths, and then seeing that they're not the right ones - sort of a process of elimination?

That would fit better with your question, "what is the purpose of the feeling." When I first read your post and the reading, I thought maybe Yi was not answering the question exactly, but was more saying something like, "don't worry about it; it's a temporary lull; you'll get back on the path." The kind of thing I had in mind was maybe a doctor, who's generally happy and fulfilled being a doctor, but nonetheless hits a period in his career where he feels like he never wants to see another sick person. But then that feeling passes. And I thought Pocossin described it very well: "the ennui of attainment."

But I can see what you're saying. Sometimes people go through school not sure what they really want, and then a while later things sort of crystallize for them and they end up maybe going back to school or changing careers in some way, and then they're happier. But the path they finally end up on didn't occur to them earlier. (Something like that...I'm not trying to imply that you'll have to go back to school before you're even finished this time! Just that things like that do happen.)

Maybe a much more mundane example would be trying on clothes in a store ...I've had the experience where I thought I liked something when I saw it on the rack, but as soon as I saw it on me in the fitting room mirror I knew I didn't want it. Even if it was the right size etc., there would just be something about actually putting it on and looking at myself wearing it that caused me to feel differently about it. Does that make any sense? (Edited: I've had the opposite happen, too - not liking something on the rack, but then liking it much better on me. Argh.]

Hexagram 57 as the relating hexagram...you have to actually "penetrate" or "root into" something to know how you really feel about it? Maybe? Not sure.

 

[corvinnclaedh]

Haha yes, I feel your examples are apt, Lisa. Thank you :bows:

 

[danadanadana]

Many times fear based emotions can be expressed through vague feelings of uneasiness, or pain. Since you emphasized the "purpose" of these feelings, I wonder if the line 1, which when changed results in Hex 57, The Penetrating Wind, could point to some fears or anxieties either about writing or speaking in public?