Moving in with my Fiancee from the troubling, bubbling home of friends.

[atticus]

I'd landed back at the family home of rich patrons who supported me when I was writing my first book-only to fall in love with a woman and in a matter of months be ready to move in, marry and start our life. I was confused. My friends have all sort of problems--alcohol, a lack of intimacy, the list is long. I grappled with my responsibility to them, if at all, and then decided to consult the oracle. Now I have been doing this for twenty some odd years, compulsively even--and I cannot recall, though I'm sure it has happened a more unequivocal answer. Move to K's immediately (this weekend)Your reading resulted in the following hexagrams:25 changing to12Hexagram 25, Without EntanglementKey QuestionsWhat is real?What is genuinely your responsibility, and what is not yours at all?Oracle'Without entanglement.Creating success from the source, constancy bears fruit.One who is not upright commits blunders,And it is fruitless to have a direction to go.'To be entangled is to be caught up in futile, groundless things: deluded beliefs, or reckless actions, or a compulsion to rewrite the past or control the future. When you are without entanglement, you recognize what is not yours, and you will not take it on. Sometimes other people's problems are not yours to solve; sometimes bad things happen to you and are not your responsibility.Freedom from entanglement brings extraordinary energy. It liberates the whole creative flow, from source to enduring fruition, natural and spontaneous as a growing plant. This is the creative potential latent in the present moment. To connect with it, you need to be conscious of your place on the earth, and set yourself straight accordingly. Entanglements are groundless; if you realign your course with present reality, you are well grounded. If you don't, you will make bad mistakes.Now is a good time to re-evaluate your plans, dreams and goals: imagining new places to go is of no use if you can't see where you are – and in any case, even the clearest of plans is not immune to chance.Image'Below heaven, thunder moves. All things interact Without Entanglement.The ancient kings, with abundant growth in accord with the seasons, nourished the ten thousand things.'SequenceBeing Without Entanglement follows from Hexagram 24, Returning:'Returning, and so truly Without Entanglement.'PairWithout Entanglement forms a pair with Hexagram 26, Great Taming:'Without Entanglement means calamity; Great Taming means the right time.'Changing LinesLine 1'Without entanglement,Going on, good fortune.'Hexagram 12, BlockedKey QuestionsWhat 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.'SequenceBlocked follows from Hexagram 11, Flow:'Things cannot end with flowing together, and so Blocked follows.'And so it was obvious that I would move, sooner, than later if not immediately.