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Hi all, I'd like some feedback on a couple of readings that I've just done on a topic if anyone can help me in my interpretations. :) I'm now on holidays after studying my first semester of a diploma in nursing. I'm feeling a little bit frazzled and tired, and I'm contemplating if maybe I should take six months off next year just to work and hopefully save up enough money to move out of home (I'm 22). I'm liking my course, although it's not easy, but I kind of want a break from studying for a while.

The questions I asked were:

Please tell me what you think of me continuing my nursing study next semester?
Answer - Hexagram 46, Line 5 changing, resulting hexagram 48.
I think this tells me to just continue my studies next semester, to keep going. Maybe to pace myself so that I don't get burnt out and stressed so much? Any thoughts?

And my 2nd question...
Please tell me what you think of me taking 6 months off study to work and move out?
Answer - Hexagram 62, Lines 1 and Lines 4 changing, resulting hexagram 36.

I feel like the i ching is saying to keep studying next semester, rather than take time off. Maybe I would lose momentum and never go back if I did that. I find this interpretation uncanny: 'Leaving home, doing your own thing, being independent or headstrong will not lead to good fortune in this issue. You are not ready yet.' (dreamhawk.com). Interesting...is it commenting that I'm not ready to move out of home yet? Any thoughts about this line, and line 4? And the relating hexagram 36? I don't quite get what 36 is about or how it might relate.

Before starting this course I was studying an arts degree, which I never finished. I guess I just feel restless, and it's november and all. I've been having some doubts about whether I really want to be studying...but I think it's more because I'm being confronted with things that I never have before and I worry that I don't have what it takes. Perhaps I'm just tired. :( Good thing I'm on holidays then I guess?

My answers were surprisingly clear, I think. Anyone have any thoughts about other possible meanings?

Thanks,
Alyce
 

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Seems to me you nailed it. Stick with it for now, there will be time later, when you are in better position, to move out.
 

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I think you nailed it too. The answers are very clear. You need to continue going on with your studies, have some patience, realise progress will not be instant but steady, step by step. 46.5 is very encouraging if you feel tired and limp about the whole thing...hang in there Rome wasn't built in a day and you can make it if you take it steady like you said.

Taking 6 months off study looks a bad idea. In 62.1 one takes on something beyond ones strength. Not too clear about 62.4 other than theres things you need to deal with, it could be you need to deal with your studies not flit about like a little bird on a big birds mission ;) (I'm encountering Sesame St imagery everywhere today :confused:) As a sentence 62>36 is keeping small, hiding brightness..oh hang on thats not a sentence but you know it just doesn't look a great idea to me not compared with 46.5. 62>36 looks generally rather lost and vulnerable to me whereas 46.5 is buiding up some strength, getting to an effective position, achieving slowly but surely.

Interesting both Firehorse and I use the word 'position'..i reckon theres loss of position with 62>36, consolidating position in 46.5


Also yes as you say your answers were suprisingly clear. I think this is partly due to the fact your questions were clear, and well thought out, thats so important sometimes. 2 clear options posed, 2 clear answers..i like the way you posed the questions, they are open, but also clear and i quite like the way you say 'tell me what you think..' to the oracle, a real conversation with the Yi
 
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And, as a nurse to a potential nurse, I must encourage you to continue!
 

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Thanks guys...sorry I haven't replied until now! Ugh, been busy...I appreciate your answers though :) Glad that my own interpretations weren't way off! Trojan, I quite often pose questions as 'tell me what you think'. I seem to get better, clearer answers than if I ask 'What will happen if I...' or other 'show me the future' kind of questions. The yi must like being asked for it's opinion I guess. I agree, I think it would be a bad idea to take 6 months off and I don't believe I will now. Still entertaining the idea of it, I'd love to move out and all, have my own freedom and independence and all that. I don't think I'm really ready yet though. Maybe in a year or two I'll move out, but not just yet. I think I should just keep at my studies for now and not worry too much about it all.
 

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update

I thought I’d come back and give an update on this reading. I decided to stick with study this year. However, I applied to transfer over from the diploma/Endorsed Enrolled Nurse course to a university/Registered Nurse course. I got in and I’m just about to finish my first semester. My reasons for transferring were that I wasn’t very happy with the particular course that I was doing because of the way it was structured. My initial plan had been to do the Enrolled Nurse course first, and then study the RN degree whilst I was working as an EEN. What I found with the diploma course however was that it was really intensive. In my opinion too intensive. The Anatomy & Physiology class attempted to teach all of the body systems in one semester. At uni, we spend a whole year on the body systems, and then another whole year doing pathophysiology of the body. At uni we have labs for anatomy & physiology, which give us the chance to look at and dissect body parts. The teacher is also really good at explaining things in several ways until we understand. I’m actually loving anatomy & physiology now, even though it is hard I’m enjoying learning about it. I’m really happy with the university course that I’m doing. It’s three years fulltime, and I’ll probably stay living at home until I finish it unless I can work something out to move out with friends or whatever. It's pretty hard to work and study fulltime. If I do get a job it might be next year...I've been told I would be able to get a job as an assistant nurse. I’ll probably move out once I start working as an RN. It's actually not all that unusual now for people to stay living at home until their mid-20s, at least here in Australia it's becoming the norm. I think it's because a lot of young people are studying, and tend to start a couple of degrees before they figure out what they want to do. Plus renting is pretty expensive.

At the moment I plan to do honours in my first year of work. We can do that apparently…it’s not like other honours programs where you add another year to your degree, we do ours after we’ve graduated. I love academic writing and would love to go higher than just a bachelor degree. Clearly I’m feeling very ambitious at the moment! I have two more exams to go. Anatomy & physiology this thursday, and then a communication challenge exam next thursday. Most worried about anatomy & physiology, the communication challenge just involves interviewing a 'patient' with a scenario. Next semester we go out on clinical placement, which I hope will be a good experience.

I think my initial reading was pretty accurate. Continuing study has been a really good decision. I really feel like I've grown and changed a lot in the past six months. I feel like I've learnt a lot, and really committed myself to study. I procrastinated a whole heap less this semester than I have previously. Hardly at all in fact. When I last studied at university (my arts degree) I did many assignments the night before, and even handed stuff in after the due date. I also did that last semester when I started the diploma, and that probably is what made me feel so tired and anxious. I've suffered from anxiety and depression for the past few years. This year I don't know what it is exactly but I feel more calm and content with myself. Perhaps it's just that sense of purpose, of finally knowing what I want to do with life, at least career-wise. As cliche as it sounds, I feel a calling to be a nurse and to help people. I think this year I've taken my studies at a good pace that I haven't gotten too overwhelmed with it all. Maybe the change of course has helped me with that, but I also think it's just been a change in attitude. Not sure if all of this was predicted in 46.5 --> 48. Perhaps it was?
 

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