Hexagram 22 and Money

[mirian]

Just to share this reading as it has really thrown me off. I asked about financial performance at work on a particular moment and got Hex 22 1.3.6 >> 2. It has been the second time that I have got Hex 22 when asking about money/finances recently. This time I had asked how well my department would perform in terms of income on a certain day when we would be running a special event.

Are we going to make shed loads of money or not?

 

[Trojina]

Maybe you will make sufficient rather then 'shed loads'. My theory with 2 as the relating hexagram is that the primary and what that describes, can kind of vanish back into the earth as if it never was there to start with. In practise this can mean that the subject of the question actually never even materialises. For example I've seen it a few times where a question was about an event that didn't take place in the end. In it's simplest form I can see 2 as absence, back to the earth, back to open potential and open potential is built upon an empty space. I don't think anyone agrees with me on that it's just I have noted it over and over again in actual readings.


Presuming the event does happen, have you been given 'targets' which must be reached and if you have do you think they are real or do you think someone in an office invented them as a kind of spur ? I currently volunteer in a place where staff are told if they don't reach targets then.....well all kinds of threats about job loss and so on...These targets drive them in to the ground and I wonder if they are arbitrary, invented.....a bit of a show. That's the 22ness of it. Also the hex 2 can be service, dependability and so on.

So there is the actual work, the job, the service and then superimposed on that are targets which actually don't have so much to do with the service provided. There's real work and service (hex 2) and then there's the targets, the ideals that the higher up people make to galvanise the mares who are actually working on the ground. I wonder if that is the 22

Should the mare worry ? I don't think so. My paid colleague was wringing her hands the other day for not meeting her targets, through no fault of hers. Personally I feel a person should just be able to do their job without all these threats and I told her to consider some of these targets are fictional and if she is working her butt off what more can she do ?


None of that probably has anything much to do with your situation....so I'm projecting a great deal and seeing you as the mare in hex 2 who steadily works on in the face of shiny enticements to work harder (22.3) But 22.1 is moving simply and so is 22.6. I feel a steady unhurried pace is the way forward.

Also yang pattern is 22 yin pattern is 47 and this also makes me feel some idealised projections of future targets may be quite oppressive to your way of working.

In answer to your actual question you can do no more than you can do and a steady performance is in the end worth more than a dazzling display on one day when the event runs. If I took it very literally it wouldn't seem a bad answer to a promotional day event though....but in the end how much difference does it make to anything. That is where what I said about hex 2 as relating earlier comes in. You can have a promotional day that's a good show (22) but hex 2 there shows this doesn't make a huge difference to how things are. It's like 2, the earth, 'swallows up' the event.


BTW do you think this had no replies so far because it belongs in shared readings ?

 

[Trojina]

....and pontificating further I can see how 22 can connect with money in particular with credit/targets and so on. Whilst money is a deadly serious matter in our lives it is also at times pure make believe. People say things about the economy and before you know it everyone is reacting to that.. Not long ago banks were handing out so much credit many didn't even feel like they were spending real money with their credit cards. 22.3 can be a real high, everyone drunk on success and doing well....but I think the reading is nudging you to be aware of that kind of bedazzlement. Party tinsel and glitter look tawdry next day when it's back to work as usual. I wonder if the reading actually describes that day, that event. it's like a party...but it doesn't fundamentally affect how the company does in the long run. The values of hex 2, real service, are what the company relies on. The strength and dependability of the mare, the day to day work rather than promotional events which are very 22. Although the promotion feeds the day to day graft of hex 2 I guess. Well it either presents it and so feeds it or feeds off it. Promotional days do take a lot of energy too.

 

[rosada]

Hi!
I just brought this post over from Exploring Divination.
Rosada

 

[bradford]

The radical for the character for 22 (賁) is a cowry shell 貝, meaning money.

 

[Trojina]

So money as a representation of worth ? Well that's what it is. In itself it doesn't exist, it only exists in terms of what it stands as representative for. When I buy peas my money represents the worth of the peas. Yes money seems like a 22 thing

 

[mirian]

Hi trojina,

Very interesting the association of hex 22 with money made by you and Bradford. I didn't post this thread in SR because, to be totally honest, I did not care an awful lot about the result of the reading, if you know what I mean, I was much more interested in exploring how to fit hexagram 22 into the subject of money, which has been bothering me for a while.

Back to your reply:

Maybe you will make sufficient rather then 'shed loads'. My theory with 2 as the relating hexagram is that the primary and what that describes, can kind of vanish back into the earth as if it never was there to start with.

Spot on. Yes, the event took place but, no, we did not make shed loads of money So it does make sense to me your idea of hex 2 -the relating hexagram- showing that at the end of the day we are back to where we are, actually back to where we should be, doing our job, as those events are basically a big show, which do not change anything fundamentally.

and pontificating further I can see how 22 can connect with money in particular with credit/targets and so on.

Even though there was no target attached I still think that it applies as in a way or the other we all sort of project mental targets, expectations of what we want to achieve, money wise. On that sort of event I reckon that everyone has got some sort of figure in mind.

I'm projecting a great deal and seeing you as the mare in hex 2 who steadily works on in the face of shiny enticements to work harder (22.3) But 22.1 is moving simply and so is 22.6. I feel a steady unhurried pace is the way forward.

The reading might well just be talking to us (to me in particular, as I was the person to ask the Yi) to bring us back to earth, as beyond the short-lived celebration of a successful event (if we take money as representing success) what lies is the job itself, which means hard work and everyday effort. In fact, we don't really need targets of special events to do our best. Personally, I would always try to do my job the best way I can, because that is the sort of person I am, regardless of the company or targets.

So, I think that it all comes together in your views on 22.1.3.6 >> 2 :bows: