Losing My Happy Home

[arabella]

Today the surveyor came to document the condition of the house I am renting that is going on the market next week. In my area there's not much to rent, prices to buy run high and my own house in another country where the market is depressed hasn't sold eight months on. Fingers crossed on that one!

I expect that living in this rental house while it's on the market is going to be a pain in the neck, so not looking forward to that experience. Apparently the owner had tried to sell it once before, but she wanted too much. That situation appears to be identical: she wants a third more than it is really worth. However, it's a cute house in a good location and some people have so much money it seems, maybe they won't care that the fabric of the place needs a lot of work and it was really built as a holiday home, not a permanent residence. It has no central heat, and on and on, in terms of what is needed here.

My question of the IChing was: What is the outcome of this house sale in relation to me? The casting: Hexagram 28.2.4.5, becoming Hexagram 15.

My own take on this is that there are a lot of moving lines, but Hex 28 may well stand for: more than the market can bear. That is, she is asking too much, BUT in line two, there is somebody willing to pay that much although the property structure isn't the best? I'm thinking here of the old man who somehow qualifies for a new wife.

Then line 4: which seems to advise me not to panic. Maybe some alternative turns up for me to have a better place? Though I feel down and out at the minute, and I guess the Yi is acknowledging that, no need to run in circles trying to fix something, take a deep breath.

Final line, 5: Old woman getting a husband this time around, so maybe a new place with central heat?

And the outcome is Hexagram 15, which I always like to see because it feels to me like a fair exchange then, something improves the situation or, at the very least, it's the way things should be.

Opinions?

 

[rosada]

28. Collapse leading to 15. Carrying On. (I call 15. Carrying On because Wilhelm translates the Judgement, "The superior man carries things through.") Sounds like even if they pull the rug out from under you, you will carry on - and I don't mean just surviving either, but actually finding a place that is suitable.

I think it's an encouraging reading, Arabella.

Best wishes,
Rosada

 

[arabella]

Thanks Rosada, that's encouraging. Did you have any particular insight about the lines? Unless it's an actual relationship reading I find translating the old man, young wife; old woman, young husband more difficult. Have I got it right, do you think, to assume that these lines indicate a better living arrangement in the offing, even though on the face of this I'm just losing my settled home? While I'm at it, I'd like to get a better understanding of Hex 28 in general.

 

[willowfox]

Well, if(emphasis on "if") she manages to sell the place then you are out, and you find another place.

Strange question. What other possible outcome do you expect?

 

[arabella]

WF, it is a strange question, except that there are so many variables. If she sells it to somebody who wants an investment, I could conceivably stay on. If she sells it next week, that's a lot different than if it drags on and on. If my house sells while she's getting this on the market and she [by some miracle] set a reasonable price in light of the valuation today, I could possibly buy it. There was probably a better question to ask -- isn't there always? Except my brain is a bit fuzzy with all of this running around inside.

The question of finding another place is interesting in itself. Other places are VERY thin on the ground.

 

[willowfox]

She won't sell it next week, and neither is it a good proposition for you to even consider even if you had the money and if (?) it did sell then your chances of staying on would be slim, so back to what I said, need to look for a new place, so one outcome, and the only variables being what you decide to have for dinner tonight, fish or ravioli.

 

[arabella]

Yes, this is what I've been sensing in the situation. Moving on is inevitable and, I hope, an improvement. But I simply need to stop doing it -- soon. It's expensive and exhausting, and I'd love more than a year at a time of stability. So, this is what you call the "wishful thinking" casting. Back to the drawing board. And, BTW, it's fish for dinner.

 

[rosada]

Hi Arabella,

Well...knowing now that you might even be able to buy this house makes me see some sense in the lines of 28. Could they be saying...

28.2
A dry poplar sprouts at the root.

Well, you are already in the house, at the root so to speak

An older man -the old owner - takes a young wife - you.
Everything furthers

28.4
The bridge pool is braced. Good fortune.

The owner may really need to sell it now and your low offer may be accepted.

If there are ulterior motives, it is humiliating.

If your offer is seen as just an attempt to get it cheap - if the owner doesn't realize it's not worth what she's asking - then it probably wont be accepted. So a need to talk to the owner and see if we can't work out some sort of win - win arrangement.

28.5
A withered poplar puts forth flowers.
An older woman takes a husband.
No blame. No praise.

The old owner works out some sort of arrangement with you.
You don't have to move!

Well, I'm not saying this I know the IC is saying this will actually happen, but I do think it could be encouragement to talk to the owner. Perhaps knowing your interest, your desire to buy the house, would interest her and she'd take hers off the market until yours sells.

-rosada

 

[arabella]

Rosada, the crux of the matter is what price she sets. The surveyor, I know from his comments today, is going to tell her she wants FAR too much. If he convinces her, I would seriously consider trying to work out an agreement with her. Overall, I like the house and I would solve some of the problems with it that I'm not motivated to take on as a renter. I just couldn't afford -- nor would I pay if I had the money -- the crazy price she is said to have in mind. Thanks Rosada for continuing with the Hex 28 interpretation. Good to consider the full potential here and, even if events don't conspire in my favor in this situation, it's always good to discuss varied meanings for these lines and have them in the archives for the future.

 

[rosada]

Hi Arabella,
Interesting the surveyor is going to be talking to her today about the price not being right.
I wonder if that could be said to have to do with 28.4, "If there are ulterior motives, it is humiliating," as meaning if she were to ask an outrageous price with the ulterior motive of getting rich no one will go for it. But if the surveyor "braces the ridgepole," tells her what the house is really worth, then maybe she's open to negotiations. Or I wonder if 28.5 is telling us that after all this talk and finding out the house isn't worth as much as she wanted in today's market, the landlord decides to hold on to the house, nothing happens, and you don't have to move after all?
Anyway, none of this may pertain to how events actually work out but as you say, it's good to think it through.

Whatever happens here's wishing you a pleasant 15!
Rosada

 

[arabella]

Either way I win......Hex 15

Exactly, Rosada, we'll see how it unfolds and how our interpretations hold up. And of course no matter what there's that Hex 15, which I've always found to be a pleasant conclusion!

 

[ginnie]

I wonder if 28.5 is telling us that after all this talk and finding out the house isn't worth as much as she wanted in today's market, the landlord decides to hold on to the house, nothing happens, and you don't have to move after all?

This is, I think, the most likely scenario.

You're overburdened by all this, but this looks like a good reading to me. The hexagram is talking about your situation,and it is your personal situation that gets braced.

I take it that the ridgepole of your living arrangements will be braced in three ways. First, something enters the picture that rejuvenates you. Secondly, the ridgepole gets actually braced with a very strong beam -- metaphorically, I am assuming. What good luck for you! Sometimes when the ridgepole is braced, that comes about through Cosmic Intervention, and it doesn't matter if you believe that. Whether this comes about through the surveyor or someone else does not matter.

And lastly, there could be a permanent arrangement coming out of this. After all, when 28.5 changes, it changes to 32, the hexagram of duration. A late flowering is not a bad outcome. One has to realize where one is in terms of one's whole lifetime.

 

[arabella]

Oh Ginnie, that would be simply remarkable. This has been such a stress in the midst of lots of other stresses, one I could definitely live without. I've been wondering whether to search like mad for something else and make as quick an exit as possible or wait for the present and see what possibilities there might be to continue on as the owner, or as the renter in a much better position to expect the landlord to meet her obligations. It cost me a small fortune when I took the lease just to bring the house to a decent living standard. Now I've got it looking nice and she's anxious to put it on the market with my work and things in it. A real opportunist, no?

Besides that, she promised a wood burner last year before the cold weather since the electric panel heating in the house is inadequate -- and then she renegged, only to show up in a blizzard in January [guilt i suppose] and propose she would have someone tear up the chimney to get a woodburner installed. Completely bizarre timing and I offered to see her in the Spring because tearing up the fireplace at that moment would have been insane. I needed the fire for auxiliary heating as I burned two cords of wood and two palettes of peat bricks in three months to keep the place habitable.

I've been a good tenant and she's been a miserly and pompous landlady. So going on as her tenant would be good only if she started keeping promises and acting more like a human being. Otherwise, if by some miracle I could buy the house at a reasonable price and eliminate her from the scenario, I would make further changes to the place myself because the investment would be warranted.

I like the house, the location and the overall ambience of it -- although it needs some renovation. And I've had the feeling since moving in that I might stay on indefinitely if by some miracle it became possible to own the place. So let's pray that your reading, and Rosada's might bear fruit. Many thanks!

 

[ginnie]

then she reneged, only to show up in a blizzard in January [guilt i suppose] and propose she would have someone tear up the chimney to get a wood burner installed. Completely bizarre timing and I offered to see her in the Spring because tearing up the fireplace at that moment would have been insane.

She sounds very mixed up. She sounds like an impractical sort of person, so it must be just as difficult for her to be the owner of a house as it is for you to be her tenant. Expect a miracle!

 

[arimoshe]

Arabella, if you desire to share - what happened? I just got this myself in a reading I did today. I'll share more about that later...