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"how can I make money from my gifts" and Yi's answer, 12.4 to 20.

mjfontaine

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Hi, I am a newbie here so I am a bit green on this forum. I am also on a new journey learning the Iching.
My reading is based on trying to get my businesses off the ground. I am an artist and a personal development trainer. I have recently been working for organisations to have a stable income but I am increasingly tired of the unscrupulous actions of some learning establishment. I have decided to just focus on my businesses but there seems to be a block and I did an online reading here and the information is below.

how can I make money from my gifts

Your reading resulted in the following hexagrams:
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Hexagram 12, Blocked

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Key Questions

What work can you do when nothing is working?
Who are you when no-one is noticing?

Oracle

'Blocking it, non-people.
Noble one's constancy bears no fruit.
Great goes, small comes.'

Nothing moves or grows, communication doesn't happen, everything is negated and blocked – and this is because of 'non-people'. That may mean that some people are a consistently, exclusively and pathologically negative influence and sabotage all attempts at progress. It can also refer to perceiving someone as not quite a real person, explaining their behaviour with labels and stereotypes rather than seeking to understand. In both cases, there is a complete failure of empathy. This means that your very best and strongest efforts come to nothing. You can have a soaring imaginative concept of the creative possibilities here; you can have the will to be true to that concept and carry it through. You're not doing anything wrong; the problem is that these creative possibilities are just not available when things are Blocked. Small concerns dominate. The adaptive response is not to strive constantly to rise to a higher level, but to focus your attention on the small details – the immediate, uninspiring reality.

Image

'Heaven and earth do not interact: Blocked.
A noble one uses his strengths sparingly to avoid hardship.
He does not allow himself honours and payment.'

Sequence

Blocked follows from Hexagram 11, Flow:
'Things cannot end with flowing together, and so Blocked follows.'

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Line 4

'There is a mandate, no mistake.
Work with clarity, fulfilment.'



Hexagram 20, Seeing

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Key Questions

When you stop searching, what comes into view?
If you had no preconceptions, what might you see?

Oracle

'Seeing. Washing hands, and not making the offering.
There are truth and confidence like a presence.'

To see is not to focus on some specific thing, but to witness everything that comes into view, with open awareness like a heron seeing a lake.
In the ritual, the everyday world is washed off – and then there is a breathless pause. It is not yet time to make the offering, but only to watch for what comes, 'like a presence', into space. In ordinary life, also, you can pause before falling automatically into the next step of the process, and see what is present before you respond. Into this space between actions comes truth, its presence as unmistakable as a great person's aura. You need only watch for it as it comes.

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'Wind moves over the earth: Seeing.
The ancient kings studied the regions,
Saw the people,
And established their teachings.'

Sequence

Seeing follows from Hexagram 19, Nearing:
'What is great allows Seeing.'


I think the readings telling me to focus on the smaller details instead of moving too fast towards the next level, taking one day at a time instead of running instead of walking. I hope I have posted this properly.

 

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12. Standstill and the Image saying "the superior man does not permit himself to be honored with revenue" certainly seems appropriate for your deciding not to continue working for organizations that are nor promoting the highest ideals. The whole hexagram gives guidance for how to bring a state of inertia back to life. Line 4 points to doing work you feel called to do and finding others with similar ideals to work with. 20. View emphasizes the importance of seeing and also of being seen. I think you are being guided to look around, see what conditions are, to find a need and fill it. There also seems to be an emphasis on group enterprise, perhaps something to do with co-ops or a support group. If you are wanting to be self employed this hexagram stresses the importance of advertising.
 

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12. Standstill and the Image saying "the superior man does not permit himself to be honored with revenue" certainly seems appropriate for your deciding not to continue working for organizations that are nor promoting the highest ideals. The whole hexagram gives guidance for how to bring a state of inertia back to life. Line 4 points to doing work you feel called to do and finding others with similar ideals to work with. 20. View emphasizes the importance of seeing and also of being seen. I think you are being guided to look around, see what conditions are, to find a need and fill it. There also seems to be an emphasis on group enterprise, perhaps something to do with co-ops or a support group. If you are wanting to be self employed this hexagram stresses the importance of advertising.
Thank you I am self employed and I am thinking of Collaborations. and working more on my marketing. Once again this reading is so apt I just need to digest the information.
 

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