At the jumping off point about school - Hexagram 8.2 >29 and Hexagram 27 uc

[yinwithjim]

School School School! A constant idea of mine. I have the ability (time and resources and hopefully the energy) and I am 60. With my prior experience a good friend suggested nursing school - an associates or RN. Three years - if all went well I'd be 63 when I finish and could work for hopefully several years. My first semester is gratefully easy due to prior college credits transferring and it's time to "put up or shut up" so to speak - registration and tuition for the fall is due on Monday.

I asked Yi - What about me going to PCT this fall and received 8.2 > 29.

8.2 found me in that situation with hex 8 first saying "good fortune" and then "inquire again to see if you have the constancy/perseverance. I also found 8 being true with "whoever comes too late meets with misfortune" meaning it's time to make a decision. Line 2 - perseverance brings fortune brings to mind that I have to stick with it.

29 as the resultant hexagram - DANGER - oh boy! The abysmal, sinking, water, gorge, repeated entrapment? I don't understand then why Legge "The trigram of Danger, here repeated, shows the possession of sincerity, through which the mind is penetrating. Action in accordance with this will be of high value." Am I to conclude that this journey into school will be dangerous and that I can succeed if I keep my wits about me?"

and finally - Hex 8 tells me to ask again - so I asked Yi - "do I have the qualities to be a nurse" and received hex 27 uc.
Legge uses the term Nourishment - good fortune through firm correctness...make sure you know what you are feeding, and determine your proper diet.

At this point I don't really know what all this means. If I look at the castings simply I see good fortune if persistent in a very dangerous situation of some sort but through it all if keeping with firm correctness - things will lead to good fortune.

Maybe I am missing something?

 

[Liselle]

8, Seeking Union, means to follow your affinities in a spirit of willingness - join the stream without hesitation. I think line 2 - both by text and 2nd line position - means this is something you want to do. (And I think 27 might mean you do have the right qualities, and again, you're seeking something: 'Nourishment: constancy brings good fortune.
See the jaws,
Your own quest for something real to fill your mouth.')

What will happen if you jump in is by definition unknown. That could be the 29. Hexagram 8 is a stream to join in with. The more the stream is joined-in-with, the bigger and faster it will get, maybe to the point of looking more like a chasm.

Even so, 29 is not necessarily a disaster. Look at the oracle:
'Repeating chasms.
There is truth and confidence.
A connected heart creates success.
Movement brings honour.'

"Repeating chasms" - could be danger, as you said. Certainly commitment, and "the unknown."
"There is truth and confidence" - excellent! Also something you will need.
"A connected heart creates success" - from everything you've said for quite a while now, I do think you're connected to this. What will happen in the future can't be known, which brings us to...
"Movement brings honour" - reminiscent of jumping into the stream without hesitation.

You'll never know if you don't try, in other words, and you'll probably keep wondering "what if."

I think if it were me - and if I were reasonably sure nothing ruinously bad could happen - I would try it.

 

[Trojina]

Have we been here before with this thread, is it the same course?

Fresh perspective on going back to school - Hexagram 63 uc

Greetings community! I have been silent for a while. I was OBSESSED with figuring out if I should go back to school - a Phd program - where - which one - was it right for me? I was so tied up in it I had to let it go. and so I did I found this paragraph in a kindle book which I felt was...

www.onlineclarity.co.uk

I have the ability (time and resources and hopefully the energy) and I am 60. With my prior experience a good friend suggested nursing school - an associates or RN. Three years - if all went well I'd be 63 when I finish and could work for hopefully several years.

......also elsewhere you said you had really bad and chronic health problems. I'm puzzled because might you not only be placing a great deal of strain on yourself to do this you'd scarcely have any working years left after qualifying surely? I think I said similar things on that thread. I think you said in another thread you had to quit a cleaning job through health issues, pain specifically I think? Here is where I recall it from

new job thoughts - hexagram 1.3 changing to 10

My ongoing "struggles" with employment continues. I have asked Yi about me leaving my current situation due to the physicality of the position and my aging bones and body --> https://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/friends/index.php?threads/leaving-a-job-23-unchanging.33761/ unsure whether or not I...

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However you say you have everything needed to go ahead so you must do I guess but nursing is incredibly physically demanding.

These puzzlements are entirely separate from your readings.

oh and no I'm not stalking you I just have an extreme memory

 

[Liselle]

(She does, it is quite legendary )

And those are good points. If you start and can't continue, do you think you'd be glad you tried and found out for sure, or would you, for instance, have given things up that aren't easy to replace?

 

[yinwithjim]

(She does, it is quite legendary )

And those are good points. If you start and can't continue, do you think you'd be glad you tried and found out for sure, or would you, for instance, have given things up that aren't easy to replace?

and there you have it - the fear or apprehension of starting school and it being too much or any other life event preventing moving forward AND more of the knowledge or non-wanting to later (a few years) feeling sad because I didn't do something I really had wanted to!

so, thank you for this reply!

 

[Liselle]

What happened on Monday? Did you register or decide not to?

I could see it both ways: if you gave it a try, one semester at a time, even if it didn't work out at least you'd know and wouldn't have regrets for not trying.

On the other hand is whatever you'd have to give up in order to do that. Quitting your current job? Tuition money you couldn't get back? Whatever else. I don't know what the ramifications of that would be. Maybe pretty serious, maybe not too serious at all.

 

[Liselle]

Oh, I just noticed your new 11uc thread...

 

[yinwithjim]

What happened on Monday? Did you register or decide not to?

I could see it both ways: if you gave it a try, one semester at a time, even if it didn't work out at least you'd know and wouldn't have regrets for not trying.

On the other hand is whatever you'd have to give up in order to do that. Quitting your current job? Tuition money you couldn't get back? Whatever else. I don't know what the ramifications of that would be. Maybe pretty serious, maybe not too serious at all.

 

[yinwithjim]

I have registered but have not paid. I have until 8/15 to decide which I think is just putting off tearing off the bandaid and making the decision yes/no to jump in.