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14.3.6 to 54

I'm not sure what info is required from me but I asked the yi "What is my calling?" And received the above hexagrams. Great possession into marrying maiden.

Can anyone help me?

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To give some background I asked this question as I am 38, happily married with a child. Work is boring but convenient. I was wondering if I had a bigger calling to the world. I felt disappointed when marrying maiden turned up. Having let the reading go deeper over the past couple of days I feel yi is telling me I'm already rich and definitely not to take action. Any advice or questions gratefully received. Thank you in advance.
 

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Hi and welcome

For me line 3 is the key, the line is describing some sort of sacrifice. This could me your time or money, maybe it could be charity work or some kind of community activity, this what i believe will lead to line 6 and you would have a more fulfilling life. I think 54 is the background to the situation like being a slave to the rat race is how you feel now.

Steve
 
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I would start with the answer, hex. 14, concentrating on this and then later move on to the secondary hexagram. And, as Steve pointed out, sacrifice of a kind playes a role in this....
 

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Hello PaulWright :) (may we call you "Paul"?)

Is there something particular in mind that you'd like to pursue?

I understand what Steve and Svenrus are saying about 14.3 and sacrifice, but I also think 14.3 is about assessing context - what can you afford?

In WikiWing (a shared repository of reading experiences and insights which is very much worth joining) there are a couple examples of 14.3 meaning something is more "affordable" than it seems. A (very) mundane example of my own from WikiWing was that instead of spending all kinds of time hunting for a tube of Chapstick I'd dropped on the floor that was inexplicably nowhere in sight, I should just open a new one. I could "afford" that small decadence for the sake of convenience and expediency, to make my life a little easier at that moment. (I found the dropped one a couple days later - it had rolled into a hard-to-see place.)

But you might have to be a bit careful. 14.3 presents two kinds of people, princes and common people, who have very different sets of options. People's experiences with 14.3 are often that they're more "prince-like" than they realize, able to offer up resources to "heaven" (that is, just a pure offering with no expectation of return). But the text doesn't literally promise you're the prince. It also says, "Small people are in no way capable of this." Small people without a lot of resources can't afford such things.

I vaguely remember a thread on the forum where someone was wondering if they should buy something, but they weren't sure if it would work, or perform as expected...something like that. I remember thinking they'd have to decide if it was an amount of money they could afford to lose, if it came to that. We all have different levels of tolerable loss - context, again. I can afford to lose a Chapstick. But when I couldn't find my paper shredder, which was more expensive, I couldn't just shrug and go buy a new one. Until I found it (in a closet I still don't remember putting it in :rolleyes:), I just had to do without. [Edited: the paper shredder was something I just knew, without casting a reading - I got 14.3 about the lost Chapstick, not about the shredder. Wanted to make that clear.]

14.3 in conjunction with 14.6...that combination might really indicate that you're more blessed than you think, and that you really can "afford" whatever it is. Two lines, double the goodness. But as Steve said, line 3 might be a prerequisite for line 6. The combination might be saying, "You have sense enough to make good decisions in the context of your life (14.3), and in that way you have heaven's 'help and protection' (14.6)." Or something like that.

(This is all very speculative, of course - it's rarely (if ever) possible for third parties to say with absolute certainty what someone else's reading means. It's hard enough figuring out with any certainty what our own readings mean...)
 
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I really agree with Lisa above - she has put it very well indeed. Also Steve's notion of sacrifice in some way - I think it is what you are willing to 'sacrifice' in your life at the moment. Not everyone can say that they are happily married, with a child and be in work - and this reading stems from this I think. There are times in our lives when we feel that we need to be doing more, branching out, not really getting what we want from living.... but it is often because we are in a mundane place, boring old conventional job, that we have time to think about what we actually want to do. I think this is what is the thrust of the casting actually. It also has a hint of a be grateful.....be content notion I think.

It reminds me of an older lady who lived near my Mother. She was very,very comfortably financially situated, went on long expensive vacations, she had good health, family nearby, connections at her Church, indeed most people would have looked at her and thought that she was incredibly lucky. And yet she said that she found her life unfulfilled, it was not going anywhere. She had not found her calling. She would moan about her boring existence stuck in her house, with no meaning. She said that she had married young and had no experience of work - she gave lots of excuses. She moved in the end - still complaining that her life had not been a success. I do not know where she went.

Now, this has nothing to do with you at all, very different, but I used to pass her house and think that if I was her, I would be enjoying my life and not moaning - I was about 14 at the time and remember thinking that I would never end up like her, wanting something that I possibly already had, a complainer. And yet, she was not content as she had not felt fulfilled in her life.... which at the end of the day was her choice.

We also sacrifice at different times in our lives - it is the price we pay for having children, looking after relatives, and it is a balance that we accept.

Hope this helps, my replies can sometimes ramble, but can sometimes make sense....
 

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Oh, about 54 as the relating hexagram. What Steve said about feeling like a slave to the rat race makes sense, plus, I think there are a few ways to look at it in general.

One is what Steve was saying - the idea of lack of control. The Marrying Maiden was a "subordinate wife," not the primary wife. She didn't have any power or influence.

Another aspect might be "biding your time." The Marrying Maiden in the hexagram's story eventually became the primary wife, and gave birth to an important heir.

Another - I think - might be the idea of priorities. I think I've had hexagram 54 at times in readings where it meant that such-and-such wasn't a priority, or shouldn't be, much as the maiden wasn't the priority at the palace.

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Yes, what Butterfly said - splendidly tying the reading to your actual question. :bows: 14.3 could mean not what you can afford financially, but more in terms of other kinds of investment. How "big" do you want your life to be? Do you want to be a prince, with the rewards that come with that, but also the responsibilities? (I.e. a bigger job would be more rewarding but maybe also more stressful and demanding.) Or would you be happier overall with a "smaller" life? "Only you can decide" (a painfully trite expression, but nonetheless true).
 

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Hi PaulWright,

"What is my calling?"

14.3.6 to 54 ~ To sacrifice the personal self (line 3) and receive the mandate of heaven (line 6) leads to union with the absolute (54).

So, while continuing to perform your ritual functions (husband, father, job, etc) with excellence, you are being called to selflessly realize your sagehood, too.

If competency with life has left you wanting more, then perhaps this is it?

I think you would like Hinton's "Tao Te Ching."

I hope this helps!
 

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That is an interesting thought, I mentioned in a thread somewhere that I am never satisfied, like always looking for a mountain to climb. It sounds glamorous, but its risky in your stability, its not being satisfied with you have, learning to appreciate you are alive and appreciating what you have is an art in itself. I have made real life changing decisions without knowing it and had start again simply by making rash decisions while in that restless state. Like when i sold a house i built the road it put me on was so much harder than it needed to be. I could have done it in a much better way. The decision changed my whole life and it was 10 years of ups and downs.

So we need to be careful, i think both scenarios fit, it depends what makes sense.

Steve
 
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Yes Steve, I agree, and I hope that 'Paul' can see that by asking his question he is actually obtaining feedback for others who are also thinking along those lines....all good.

I often feel that it is like someone who lives in the most beautiful location, scenery to die for and glorious walks and swims nearby. When my daughter went to college, she shared with someone from near where we live - beautiful scenery, mountains etc. We had moved there about 5 years earlier. This person (who had been born there and whose family had done so for years) said that she never went for walks up there, it was a bit monotonous she said...........just a lot of rocks!!!!!!.
 

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When you give or make a sacrifice when you dont benefit and others do it is fulfilling pehaps the message is both. Be content and give,

me...i am not there yet

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OK everyone first I'd like to say thank you for all your very generous interpretations of my reading. They were all very enlightening as to how others perceived what was given to me.

Now I've got some good news. I had an a-ha moment today, after much meditating, as to what the oracle was telling me.

When I asked the oracle "What is my calling?" I can see that the oracle viewed my life as a whole and what I needed to devote my focus too. What my major purpose is at this time of my life. I was thinking narrowly in terms of a career change when I asked, but silly me, the oracle actually answered the big question I gave it. "What is my calling?"

Like I said the first hexagram seemed obvious to me but the second was a puzzle. I discovered the marrying maiden in this case is me being in service to my family. My calling is in being the best dad I can be. First hexagram says I am rich with great potential turning into being of service to a bigger project ie fatherhood.

This makes absolute sense to me now. A great first reading. I'm hooked now. Thank you all.
 

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