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Family reunion vs job training: 10.2.6 -> 17

mulberry

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I have the opportunity to do some job training that only happens once a year, but the dates conflict with a family reunion that we have been trying to attend for years. A special aspect of this family reunion is it is our only link to a family member who died tragically young many years ago, and my daughter (born last year) is his only descendent besides my husband. There are many people who would love to meet her, including several elderly people who can't travel.

Well, writing this out I answered my own question about what should take priority, didn't I?

The downsides of going are that it is a 10 hour drive away (it's a remote area so makes no sense to fly) and this job training course could be quite important...

But this is what I asked Yi:

What would be the outcome of not doing the training course and instead going to the reunion?

10.2.6-17

The 10.6's mention of ancestors' blessing is what makes me think that we really should go to this reunion, as does the 10.2's treading the easy path and 17 in general (following the flow).

Slightly earlier I asked Yi for any advice about the professional training week and got 49.1.5 -> 62 which frankly makes me want to run the other way from it. (Which goes against what I wanted to hear from Yi-- I wanted Yi to be all gung-ho about the course but it is not...)

Thoughts, anyone?
 
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What would be the outcome of not doing the training course and instead going to the reunion?
10.2.6 > 17

I had this cast once, when I had asked about a sort of a conflict between myself and a health authority. It turned out to mean "don't act right now, follow up later". So I take it like if you don't do the training course now, you'll pursue it again in the future.

any advice about the professional training week and got
49.1.5 > 62

I got this cast on a few occasions actually, and in all cases it turned out like "delay now, everything will change, the thing you're asking about will not happen".

Sorry but I can't figure out how it applies in your case.
Whenever I have a dilemma I ask two questions, outcome if I choose A and outcome if I choose B.
A really tough choice you've got there :-/
 

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Thanks, diamanda! I appreciate your feedback. I really have had some tough experiences with 49 and 62 (those two make me leerier than 29, 51, or even 47) so I am happy to delay the job training if it means avoiding going through the flavor of those hexagrams again.

I asked Yi if it had any general remarks on attending the reunion and it answered:

6.2.4-> 20

which is not exactly enthusiastic, but does make some sense if I consider "Return home, escape to your town's people/Three hundred households" to encompass by husband's family. For what it's worth, in China and most of Asia, this would in fact be the case, since a woman's husband's family becomes fully hers after marriage. And line 4 resonates, to really push not attending in order to do training would cause conflict, a conflict that would be best to step away from.

I'll try to remember to update the thread this summer!
 

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Further update, independent of the family reunion time conflict, I would not have wanted to do the job training at this time. My daughter has entered the separation/stranger anxiety phase and wow...she is taking it hard. She's been very clingy and not easy for any one else to take care of, even my husband and mother who she is very comfortable with. Also she is really mobile and fast now, but has no sense of safety whatsoever, so needs constant supervision. Delightful but exhausting! It would have been a rough time to hand her care off to others for a solid week. This seems to be what the somewhat puzzling 49.1.5-> 62 reading was about-- 49.1 feels like the bond and obligation I have to my daughter, which comes first, and 49.5 about the radical changes that she's undergone in terms of growth and ability since I made this cast, which I knew intellectually would happen but didn't understand fully in terms of how much it would shift the daily rhythms we'd established since she was a newborn. 62 is a good description of overdoing it, which trying to do the job training right now would likely have resulted in.
 

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