Driver's license 55.1.2.3 -> 40

[Phaboo]

Hi everyone,

I'm currently really busy, I am graduating next week, finished my thesis in a rush (although it turned out great), getting a driver's license, moving to a different town...

I have driving exam at the end of October, right before I move to the mainland (I'm from Italy and I live in Sardinia, which is an island) to begin my master's degree. I've been taking lessons since this summer, but barely 10 hours in total, and I feel like I need more time. However it's really complicated to do this exam in the town where I'm moving since the traffic and the streets will be completely different, I should change the instructor, paying a tax to the new driving school etc. The instructor wanted me to take the exam the 22 of October but after today's lesson he said that I won't be ready and he will figure it out. He probably meant he would try to posticipate it of a week or something, because he says but I should try anyway. In Italy we have two chances. The deadline to take the exam is September of next year, so theoretically, I could take more lessons next summer when I come back. It would be convenient also because instead of moving just a couple of days before the beginning of the lessons, I could move a bit earlier and get to know the city, my new teacher, etc.

So I think the cornucopia which the hexagram refers to here is how busy I am. I got the same hexagram not so long ago referring to new students coming to get private lessons, but I ended up not having time to teach them because of my graduation. I don't know about the changing lines. They seem to point out to the option of taking the exam next summer instead of rushing to it.

Thanks in advance!

EDIT: the literal question was in Italian, I roughly translate it as: How should I organize in order to get my driver's license?

 

[Phaboo]

I've tried to ask a more precise question: when should I take the exam? 27.6 -> 24.

To sum up, the instructor wants me to take it before I move out, while I am considering the idea of waiting until I return next summer. It changes to "return" so perhaps I Ching is suggesting that too. But the 6th line tells to cross the great river, so that confuses me. Unless crossing the great river is about moving out and nourishing myself by settling down to the new town until I return. But the great river symbolizes danger and the exam is what I feel as dangerous. The risk of failing it, wasting time and money etc. On the other hand I see no danger in moving out, but I Ching comes from ancient times where travelling was indeed life threatening. So I can't really tell if the 6th line is about taking the exam or moving out.

 

[diamant]

How should I organize in order to get my driver's license? 55.1.2.3 > 40
55.1 probably shows that you shouldn't stick with your current instructor any longer.
55.2 might be showing here a lot of bureaucracy (multiple screenings, or even tests).
55.3 breaking off the right arm (I believe this is your instructor, as he sits on your right in the instructing car in right-driving countries).
40 you will feel relief once you get rid of him.

when should I take the exam? 27.6 > 24
Whenever it suits you best. You're the customer, you're paying the instructor, it's all up to you.

 

[Phaboo]

I took a couple of lessons with the same instructor since the exam is next week, hoping that Diamant's reading is not right but apparently it is. Yesterday he seemed much more calm and even though I made some mistakes, it went fine. But today he went so mad that he yelled at me a lot. It's not the first time he does that but the more the exam approaches the more he becomes nervous, and it's a vicious circle because I become really anxious and insecure when he's like that. I didn't have the guts of telling him right away that this behaviour is unacceptable for an instructor. After coming back home I become really upset and I asked Yi what to do with him and I got 1.1 -> 44. Do not act. Does it mean it's useless to try to speak with him and to simply stop taking these lessons with him or was it an advice to be patient and wait until the right moment to speak out? I was really tempted to call the driving school to resign but that way I may have seemed like the one who is impatient.

 

[Phaboo]

How should I organize in order to get my driver's license? 55.1.2.3 > 40

55.3 breaking off the right arm (I believe this is your instructor, as he sits on your right in the instructing car in right-driving countries).

By the way that instructor has such a temper that I wouldn't be surprised if it meant that he would literally break my arm off

 

[redoleander]

1.1 does give a pretty direct message (maybe when we need it most? such as when the impulse is strongest to act) to just sit tight. I don't think that means you can never do anything in the future (seems like reporting this person is a good idea, although you never know what's really going on administratively until you see inside.) Sounds like just sit tight right now (no lessons! This person sounds scary) and I'm sure there has to be another way to get your lessons/license. You never have to interact with abusive people even if somehow they have a twisted logic that they're entitled to their behavior. Abusers always think that!

 

[diamant]

That sounds just horrible @Phaboo!
His behaviour is totally out of order and unacceptable.

what to do with him 1.1 > 44
The advice does sound like you shouldn't make any move at all. Who knows what he's up to behind the scenes. Dear heavens, what a story.

 

[Phaboo]

Thank you both for your reply. I have my lessons already booked every day until the exam, although they wouldn't make me pay for the unattended lessons if I just resign. I have to decide. He doesn't look like a bad person at all, I think he just has a really bad temper, perhaps he's overworking and he's distressed. But I don't know if I'm any good at judging people and it is an unacceptable behaviour indeed.

I will move to another city the day after the exam. I mean, I could have moved earlier if it wasn't for the exam but I decided to give it a chance. I will ask tomorrow whether I can take the exam later in the other city or not, because apparently I can't if I already took the theory part, according to a website that I read. Better ask directly though.

The cost of changing school would be about the same of taking these lessons until the exam so it seems reasonable to call the school and resign tomorrow. But it does sound like a move to him, I mean, I would have to explain that it's also because of him, unless I come up with other reasons (having to move out, not feeling prepared about the exam etc).

 

[redoleander]

1.1 was “with him” right? The question, I mean. Because if “what to do with him” is 1.1, it seems that the answer is do nothing with him but maybe just calling to ask for a different teacher would be fine. Do you think you could ask to switch?

 

[Phaboo]

1.1 was “with him” right? The question, I mean. Because if “what to do with him” is 1.1, it seems that the answer is do nothing with him but maybe just calling to ask for a different teacher would be fine. Do you think you could ask to switch?

Yes, I asked the question about what to do with him specifically. I could ask to drive with a different teacher of the same school although it would be really embarrassing and they are full of students so it also depends whether they have spare time or not. Honestly I don't feel prepared for the exam at all and it's only next week's Friday. If I could postpone the exam and take lessons in the city where I'm moving I would be relieved, although there's a little bit of bureaucracy to handle and I'm not sure that I can take the exam in that city if I already took the theory part here. The two cities have completely different streets so it would be a problem to take lessons there while taking the exam here. I will call tomorrow to ask about this.

 

[redoleander]

Ah I see, yes, the logistics can be a lot more confusing and troublesome than the very simple idea of the reading. It can make it hard to know exactly what to do. Maybe you could read on this alternate plan overall, see the outlook for taking exam and lessons in your new city? Who knows, sometimes bad things happen to help you in the end (like getting to take your test later on when you’re more ready, for example). Let us know how it goes!

 

[Phaboo]

Maybe 1.1 simply meant that there was no need to do anything, today I went to the driving lesson and he basically apologized, saying that he wanted me to be more responsive in my driving because driving is tough etc, but that it wasn't the right approach to obtain that. He said that he really admires me (he knows that I just got a degree with full marks with honour in musical composition) and that I shouldn't be afraid of anything because of my young age and talent. He knows that I have a tendency of being anxious and this is perhaps what makes him nervous sometimes, because it shouldn't influence my driving, although I think it's normal that I have a tendency to freeze when it yells at me, at the end of the day in real life if I had a passenger shouting in my car and I would simply ask them to get out

So, today he was really calm and the driving went much better, I was more independent and even though I made a few mistakes that wouldn't have made me pass an actual exam, he was really happy about it. He said that he cares a lot about this exam, almost as if he was him who was going to get the license. In my experience with teachers, I've seen other times that there are a few who take their students' results so seriously that they get nervous as if they're the ones who are going to take the exam and have to prove worthy as teachers. Especially with individual lessons (such as music lessons, where I had many teachers)

Before going to the driving school I asked: what should I do with my driving school? (changing it, explaining the problem ecc) and I got 61.1.3 to 57. So I called the school and I said that I wasn't feeling ready for the exam, and they told me that since I've been already registered it's best to take it. Should I not pass it, I could take some driving lessons in the city where I'm moving in, but I must take the driving part of the exam in the same city where I took the theory part, so they confirmed me that.

So perhaps 1.1 was simply an invitation to remain patient, as in wilhelm translation: "it is wise for the man who consults the oracle and draws this line to wait in the calm strength of patience. The time will fulfill itself"

 

[redoleander]

Good news. Hope it continues to go well!

 

[Phaboo]

So, today I failed the exam but I feel much relieved anyway. The teacher was surprisingly calm as well and even comforted me that I have the abilities to drive, that perhaps being in a hurry with the graduation and moving out wasn't helpful at all. So he said to drive in the new city with another instructor if possible, and to let him know when I come back to try again.

Fun fact: yesterday I asked I Ching what to do in the exam. I got 62.3 -> 16. The 3rd line advised to be extremely careful on details that I might otherwise regard as insignificant. I thought it may referred to my driving technique in general, things that my instructor usually criticize, like how I use the clutch and stuff like that. That wasn't what made me fail the exam: I was on a road without road signs, there was only a road surface marking before the turn which I hadn't payed attention to (it was really faded) and that would have let me know that the road was a two way road, instead I thought it was a one way road and I took the wrong lane to turn left. There wasn't lane lines at all so it was a bit tricky, but if I observed better I would have avoided that mistake.

What's funny about that 3rd line is that in Italy the driving examiner sits in the back seats, and in Wilhelm translation it says:

If one is not extremely careful,
Somebody may come up from behind and strike him.
Misfortune.