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Why didnt I get thru at this institution?
18 (1,2,3,4,6) --> 51
To get into med school is so difficult that even straight "A" students cannot get into the medical school of their choice.
In my opinion, if I had gotten 18.6, I would realize that med school is the wrong dream for me. A person can have more than one dream. I am sure Rose has more than one dream.
Why does she feel she has to take the hardest, most difficult route to success? She doesn't have to.
I would like to hear from Rose whether or not she has felt a true vocation to be a physician, to be healing the sick, working in a hospital. Has she studied all the biological sciences? Is she particularly attracted to one specialty? Is she ready to spend all her days and nights for the rest of her life becoming a better and better doctor? Is her mother a doctor? Her father?
In other words: Why is Rose trying to get into medical school?
Rose, sorry you didn't get in this time. University admissions processes can be thoroughly horrible things. (There's an urban legend about an Oxford interview where the interviewer just said 'Impress me' and sat back to read his newspaper. The interviewee took out his lighter and set fire to the paper. Oh, how I wish it were true...) Don't let them get to you. (Note for WF: that's my interpretation of 13.4
I see line 13.4 differently, as she seems rather despondent after being rejected, in her despair she is crying out, "tell me the truth, is med. for me or not?" She feels alienated by the school, and thus doubt is creeping into her mind, saying that she is not good enough, so now she thinks of the school as the enemy.
But slowly she will come to realize that its no use being angry with the school and neither is it useful to doubt her talents as she needs this school, so the line comes with good fortune tagged onto it, suggesting, stop your upset and despair as med is right for you.
You must be more honest with yourself, Rose. When you got that hexagram 18, every single line in it was moving, except the fifth line.
18.1. Your principles are old-fashioned or out-of-date.
18.2. You have some really specific weaknesses that are obvious to other people.
18.3. In your haste you stepped on some toes.
18.4. Your troubles were not over. They had just begun.
18.6. It would be best if you attended to your own affairs. This line could also mean that your true interests are spiritual in nature and that you are not meant for the super-busy life of a doctor.
The fifth line is one in which people react favorably to you if you make any effort to change the mistakes you have made. This is exactly what did not happen. That was the line you did not get.
To get into med school is so difficult that even straight "A" students cannot get into the medical school of their choice.
In my opinion, if I had gotten 18.6, I would realize that med school is the wrong dream for me. A person can have more than one dream. I am sure Rose has more than one dream.
Why does she feel she has to take the hardest, most difficult route to success? She doesn't have to.
I would like to hear from Rose whether or not she has felt a true vocation to be a physician, to be healing the sick, working in a hospital. Has she studied all the biological sciences? Is she particularly attracted to one specialty? Is she ready to spend all her days and nights for the rest of her life becoming a better and better doctor? Is her mother a doctor? Her father?
In other words: Why is Rose trying to get into medical school?
Hex 41 is supposed to clarify Hex 8 which was the answer on whether rose would get a chance to get into med school in 2011.
So, Hex 8 is about joining a group and being accepted as a member, and therefore if rose does not try then obviously she will lose her chance, so she does indeed need to try again.
So, Hex 41 not only calls for simplicity but a sacrifice as well, so joining med school would need sacrifices to be made in rose's way of life plus a need for frugality and simplicity, plus a need to blend in and be just another quiet, unassuming student.
Also, 18 > 51 was about why she failed and is certainly not telling rose "to let go" of her dream.
I see line 13.4 differently, as she seems rather despondent after being rejected, in her despair she is crying out, "tell me the truth, is med. for me or not?" She feels alienated by the school, and thus doubt is creeping into her mind, saying that she is not good enough, so now she thinks of the school as the enemy.
But slowly she will come to realize that its no use being angry with the school and neither is it useful to doubt her talents as she needs this school, so the line comes with good fortune tagged onto it, suggesting, stop your upset and despair as med is right for you.
(There's an urban legend about an Oxford interview where the interviewer just said 'Impress me' and sat back to read his newspaper. The interviewee took out his lighter and set fire to the paper. Oh, how I wish it were true...) Don't let them get to you. (Note for WF: that's my interpretation of 13.4 )
With hexagram 18 in your answer, it's good to 'dig' a bit - maybe as Ginnie was doing, maybe along different lines. It implies there is something hidden under the surface of your intention, that corrupted your efforts at the interview from within.
Rose,
My interpretation is along the line of Ginnie's, but perhaps even more general. It's important to do what you consider to be the right thing, but doing them for the right reasons. I don't see it as prescribing what you should do, but as the productive way to work out those troublesome details which may be standing in the way of achieving what you want to achieve. For example, was there any self-sabotage, possibly due to discouraging words of parents, friends or lover? 18 is a lot about early influences, or current influences which even when well intended bring about corruption in our thinking and actions. 18.6 finally breaks free of all that, and you can make adjustments and corrections based on your ideals, not those of others.
It might have to do with my line of thoughts that nothing works out for me.
Is medicine the right path for me?
13(4,6)-->63
Hi RoseIs medicine the right path for me?
13(4,6)-->63
It is the highest form of myself that I can give to society. I yearn for my life to be more than just being in it. I know it is 4 years of study – only to start with, it takes at least 10 years to be a fully fledged doctor. Yet I am excited about it. I have tried not wanting to do medicine. Yet after more than10 years, it keeps surfacing and I only feel more passionate about it.
Why didnt I get thru at this institution?
18 (1,2,3,4,6) --> 51
Is medicine the right path for me?
13(4,6)-->63
Will I do med in 2011?
61(1,2,6) -->8
I personally don't ask another question whenever 8 pops up - I understand from others that that is a mistranslation and for me it seems to muddy the waters but I did laugh when I saw that you got 41 because my understanding of 41 has been based on seeing it as a crucible - for reducing and concentrating essences - alchemy style!
Lucia
That's interesting.
I don't have a cell phone and once asked Yi if I should buy one. The response was H41 unchanging. I took that to mean, "Dead loss financially; decrease your involvement."
Lucia was saying above that H41 unchanging can also mean allow yourself to be reduced and changed, as if in a crucible. Someone said make the sacrifice and you will succeed.
Can H41 unchanging can mean diametrically opposite things? Make the sacrifice seems to be saying "Go." While decrease your involvement, seems to be saying "Do not go."
H41 can mean a decline, a decrease in resources, a decline of the life force itself. It is said to be a time to modify extreme emotional reactions and also avoid expenditures. In addition, the Wing translation says: "Before things will change successfully, a certain economy must be reached in the intensity of your emotions."
According to another source I read once, H41 means that there is something that needs to be cleared before actions can be taken. That makes sense of both interpretations above and reconciles them.
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I don't have a cell phone and once asked Yi if I should buy one. The response was H41 unchanging. I took that to mean, "Dead loss financially; decrease your involvement."
Get rid of all conditioning and forms. You think you need them for being present in the world, for being visible, being you. But what they do is hiding you. They hide your soul, your essence, your creativity, and they can even destroy all this.
If you dare to be your naked self, you will be amazed how great and rich it is.
Lucia was saying above that H41 unchanging can also mean allow yourself to be reduced and changed, as if in a crucible. Someone said make the sacrifice and you will succeed.
Hmm...........
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What I learned from him is that the people who are blessed are the ones who find their groove early on - who have a direction! If you don't have that you can witter about like a child wondering what you are going to do when you grow up until you are 70.
I love quietly passionate, dynamic, somewhat driven people - channelled wisely it is an amazing force to contend with and oh so creative. I work in a profession where putting words like obsessive and driven on your CV will get interest... people who don't work like that are amazed that these things are seen as a plus.
People who give up at the first knock back don't have what it takes. However, the period after that knock back is a vulnerable time because part of achieving these goals is self belief and an interview cock up hammers that for a while, hence a part of the process is to question.
Rose has done that and without the ching, as I said, she answered her own question loud and clear and in my opinion, delightfully.
I also think 18.6 is quite vocational - but that's another story.
Lucia
Clarity,
Office 17622,
PO Box 6945,
London.
W1A 6US
United Kingdom
Phone/ Voicemail:
+44 (0)20 3287 3053 (UK)
+1 (561) 459-4758 (US).