How will my year be like?

[hellomoon]

I asked the I ching what will 2018 be like for me. I got hexagram 47 changing to 29.47.4>29I had a really stressful 2016 & 2017...very stressed and I had trouble sleeping. I have many plans for this year. I hope it all works out. Line 4 speaks of a humiliation but temporary. What could this mean? It worries me. Any insights? I can't tell weather this hex is auspicious or not! Thanks.

 

[Trojina]

I asked the I ching what will 2018 be like for me. I got hexagram 47 changing to 29.47.4>29I had a really stressful 2016 & 2017...very stressed and I had trouble sleeping. I have many plans for this year. I hope it all works out. Line 4 speaks of a humiliation but temporary. What could this mean? It worries me. Any insights? I can't tell weather this hex is auspicious or not! Thanks.

Yes worry is a fairly common result of doing a yearly reading unfortunately and one reason I'd advise people against them. Other reason's being this is the Book of Change not the book of one fixed reading for an entire year. When people get seemingly less 'positive' answers as yearly readings it means everyone has to reassure them it's okay

There is no such thing as auspicious or inauspicious hexagrams so it is good you cannot tell which it is.
https://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/friends/showthread.php?8682-Positive-and-Negative-Hexagrams

I'm not convinced yearly readings are readings for a whole year so I will take your answer as what Yi wishes to say to you now. That is I think it's best to take the answer as what Yi is saying to you now to take into the year ahead rather than a cast iron prediction about the whole year which I do not think it is.

47 can be a time where you don't feel heard and indeed often aren't heard. A time where you can feel repressed, constrained, confined. However quite often this is more a frame of mind than external circumstances particularly in line 4.

What does line 4 actually say...from Hilary's translations

'Coming slowly, slowly, confined in a bronze chariot.
Shame. There is completion.'

This line can come up when you are really making heavy weather of something, dragging something out, making it more complicated than it needs to be. You can be slowing everything down instead of going straight to the point, hindering yourself with all kinds of unnecessary considerations. You can get to where you want to be it's just taking longer because you are choosing to do it all in a rather ponderous elaborate way. For example it can manifest as thinking you can't just go ahead and do something you have to make preparations, you to have check things etc. It needn't be like this so there is some shame, some humiliation but you do get there in the end.

In 47 it is very tempting to keep your plans to yourself and it can be the best thing because maybe no one would understand anyway. But I think by line 4 one has become a bit over cautious. It all seems terribly important to get it right and you can be scheming in your own mind about the best way to do things whereas actually this could all move along a bit quicker if you could free yourself from your own demands about how things should unfold. Maybe it is even some perfectionism ?

So practically I think Yi's advice for you now at this point in your life is that yes you feel hampered and constrained from moving at the pace you'd like but some of this is down to you overcomplicating things for yourself.

I hope that makes sense

 

[hellomoon]

Hi yes it makes sense. I think this Yi is reflecting how I feel now...you may be right. I feel exactly like this right now...I feel currently 'stuck' and I don't know what to do or where to go. I feel overwhelmed and honestly I do not know which path to take...and I think this hex is spot on...like you said "This line can come up when you are really making heavy weather of something, dragging something out, making it more complicated than it needs to be". I just feel sitting around and thinking is a waste of time and I should just make a move (because I have some plans I need to start to tackle).I have many plans and I don't tell anyone what I want to do (this is correct), I feel no one would understand so what is the point? I am very ambitious person. Thank you for your interpretation. Very spot on! I feel much better about this and the new year!!!

 

[Olga Super Star]

this is the Book of Change not the book of one fixed reading for an entire year

This sounds extremely reassuring to me too
Although I have to say that my 12unchanging year sort of fit.. It really was a 12 unchanging year. I survived, I had some good moments but looking at it from the top of the Moon it really was a 12 unchanging year. A year to pause and to think and to rethink my actions and way of doing things and way of relating to others.
So it was a good year after all, I think I have learned a lot from it.
Yet the year was 12 unchanging and nothing changed on the outside, it was me that changed on the inside.

:bows: