Please help, am I right in interpreting this reading as a positive in that that this is the right path for me.

[Scoobyzoom05]

Your reading​

Hilary Barrett translation Legge translation

Please advise is becoming an artist the right path for me​

Your reading resulted in the following hexagrams:

49​		31​
	changing to

Hexagram 49, Radical Change​

Key Questions​

How can you break the mould?
How must the form change to express the essence?

Oracle​

'Radical change.
On your own day, there is truth and confidence.
From the source, creating success, constancy bears fruit.
Regrets vanish.'
It is time for transformation. The old Chinese character for 'Radical Change', which also means 'leather', shows an animal hide: this is change like a shaman's, putting on a new skin to change your identity. And it is also revolutionary change: this hexagram marks the day when the Zhou people and their allies marched out to meet the armies of the corrupt Shang dynasty, and defeated them. You change the governing principle, and bring about renewal.
In the moment of change, there is truth – sincerity and a sure knowledge. Then the power of the whole unfolding creative process, from the source through to fruition and fulfilment, can enter here and change the world. Naturally regrets vanish, along with the past to which they belong. The new time is coming.

Image​

'In the centre of the lake there is fire: Radical Change.
A noble one calculates the heavenly signs and clarifies the seasons.'

Sequence​

Radical Change follows from Hexagram 48, the Well:
'The way of the Well does not allow things not to change radically.'

Pair​

Radical Change forms a pair with Hexagram 50, the Vessel:
'Radical Change puts away the old; the Vessel grasps renewal.'

Changing Lines​

Line 1​

'Bound with yellow rawhide.'

Hexagram 31, Influence​

Key Questions​

What influence is active – and what does it draw you towards?
What is its place in your life?

Oracle​

'Influence, creating success.
Constancy bears fruit.
Taking a woman, good fortune.'
Influence is what moves people, and how people are open and available to be moved – by emotion or inspiration, physical responses or visiting spirits. All these things touch, stir and attract us, drawing us into relationship. The Chinese character for 'influence' shows a mouth and a weapon: the influence goes deep, and makes us vulnerable.
It is good to respond to the power of influence with constancy, steadying the motion it inspires and creating a place in your life to contain it. The man who 'takes a woman' in marriage brings her into his home and makes room for her there. Good fortune comes from this more feminine way of relating: being open and allowing space for new influences.

Image​

'Above the mountain is a lake: Influence.
A noble one accepts people with emptiness.'

Sequence​

The Yijing is divided into two canons: the Upper Canon ends with Hexagram 30, Clarity, and the Lower Canon begins here. Influence follows from all the hexagrams that precede it:
'There is heaven and earth, and so there are the ten thousand things.
There are the ten thousand things, and so there is man and woman.
There is man and woman, and so there is husband and wife.
There is husband and wife, and so there is father and son.
There is father and son, and so there is ruler and minister.
There is ruler and minister, and so there is higher and lower.
There is higher and lower, and so there is a place for rites and justice to operate.'

Pair​

Influence forms a pair with Hexagram 32, Lasting:
'Influence calls, Lasting endures.'

 

[rosada]

What does "becoming an artist" mean to you?
49.1 sounds like you're being advised to step on to this path very carefully.
31. seems to encourage opening yourself up to the influence of others.

Maybe advice to not quit your job and move to Paris just yet. Perhaps start by joining a co-op or taking a class. or getting an agent - do something to give you a support system.