Professional/life decision 18.3

[See_Q_bensis]

So I consulted the i ching to help me make a decision on whether or not I should sell a trailer I own. I phrased it Here’s a little backstory so you understand why I did kind of a big deal.
I started a business doing seamless gutters the past year and I was able to do so because a wealthier uncle of mine was kind enough to give me A beautiful covered trailer. It’s a race car trailer it’s really really nice. The nicest trailer I ever been in actually.
Recently I had some bad luck with my truck and was not able to work for 6 weeks and I fell behind(still catching up but working steady so far) so I decided to try and sell it.

Today I received an offer for 10,000 of the asking 17,000 which was still a good price. I could really use the money but I feel guilty selling it and I really do think in the future I’d be able to wrap it with my companies info and pull in work.

I asked “What would the state of things be like if I sold the trailer?”

I got 18.3 and I don’t know what to make of it exactly

 

[Olga Super Star]

Hi
18 is something that has been spoiled.. something bad that you need to correct.

line 3 should be about male ancestors if I well remember, so your uncle would fit

at the moment I can’t think of something else, but I am bumping this up for you

 

[Trojina]

The first step is often to find your question in the hexagram - and then find your hexagram in the question, that is apply it after you have recognised the 18 here.

18 to do with trying to put things right that have gone wrong or been neglected so it's both the corruption or decay in a situation and the attempted remedying of that. So we have to figure what it is that's gone wrong that you are trying to put right.

Recently I had some bad luck with my truck and was not able to work for 6 weeks and I fell behind(still catching up but working steady so far) so I decided to try and sell it.

So I'm guessing what went wrong was the fact you couldn't work for 6 weeks and you are trying now to compensate for that.

If you are going to try to sell the trailer to make up for lost earnings with the truck I'm not sure then it's worth doing -

I'll just copy paste my own experience on 18.3 from wiki and you take whatever fits...

I see this line come up when there is an attempt to remedy something but it doesn't really work. There is no great shame or harm in this, it just doesn't work well. So I think this is a rueful line where one may end up saying or feeling 'ah well at least I tried'. I once asked about a new medication for pain and got this line. I tried it but it wasn't really appropriate. It was a patch constantly feeding small amounts of the drug into the bloodstream. Far too much, far too strong. I stopped it. I also had this line when investigating my compulsion to share my ideas with people who are not at all receptive. Again it's a picture of misapplied effort. There's an attempt to rectify or help something or someone but it misses the mark. It is often an over correction, a sledge hammer to crack a nut, inappropriate efforts at restoring things or helping in a situation. Perhaps one just does not have a clear picture of what the 'decay' is here and so just does something, anything, in an attempt to make things better. Not a lot of use, but no great disaster either for trying. Fan yao is 4.3 where one engages in false values in looking up to others. Here there are false values in attempting corrections of any kind yet I think one will still be drawn to try as a sense of compulsion to make things right often occurs here.(Trojina)

So you asked

I asked “What would the state of things be like if I sold the trailer?”

'Ancestral father's corruption.
There is small regret,
No great mistake.'

Well if I take that directly it's an okay thing to do but it doesn't particularly help you. I think in your shoes I would keep the trailer not sell it because it doesn't remedy anything much to sell it though it's not wrong to sell it.

I have to say for some reason I struggled a bit with the situation, I was a bit muddled about the vehicles....but anyway that's what I have come up with.

What do you think?