Reading it in reverse or not? 55.3.4 > 24

[vng78]

Hi All,

I asked about "what if I tried to apply for a job at company X?" (overseas, where I used to live) and the answer I got is 55.3.4. changing to 24 (return). I know 55 is abundance although the lines aren't exactly that auspicious. What confuses me is, my current situation related to his question isn't in a state of abundance at all, probably even the opposite. So, the way I see it there are three ways I can think about in interpreting this:

1. Hex 24 represents my situation, wanting to return, and by returning I get abundance through the job. This is what my intuition is telling me but the cause and effect order is in reverse. Normally I'd read the changing lines keeping in the back of my mind what the new situation will become *due* to these changing lines. Now that I reverse the situation, how can I understand them since I no longer have a point of reference?

2a Somehow, I apply and I get the job and that leads to abundance and the result is I have returned? I feel this is a long shot but could still make sense.

2b. Like 2a, I got the job, leads to abundance and nature takes its course leading to decline and I have to "return" i.e. leaving the country company X is in? Well, this one I really don't think it makes any sense but I am listening...

Anyone can give me some advice on how to read this one properly? How would you read it if you got this line? Feel free to share the third or the fourth way to interpret this.

Thanks :bows:
Vince

 

[themis]

Hi,

My impression is that the Sage has given you a picture of your current situation. Things have or
will move from a state of dissolution/resolution to one of reconciliation/association. That's my
take on it and my experience of these particular lines ... to be taken with a grain or two of salt.

Hex 55 Abounding
The situation described by this hexagram is charactrized by a peak of development, a
culmination that can be fully expressed and enjoyed, even with the awareness that it
will be inevitably followed by a decline.
Abounding.
Growing.
the king imagines it.
No grief. Properly the sun in the center.

Counter Hex.: The Counter Hex of Abounding is hex. 28 The Great Exceeding which switches
the emphasis from a culmination that can be fully enjoyed to the excessive predominance of
a central idea or goal, which may become too heavy to bear.

Line 3
Abounding one's overflowing
The sun in the center: viewing froth.
Severing one's right arm.
(Referring to an associate/family/friend - possibly)
Without fault.
Comments: Abounding one's overflowing.
Not permitted the gerat in affairs indeed.
Severing one's right arm.
Completing not permitted availing of indeed.

Line 4
Abounding one's screen.
The sun in the center: viewing a bin.
Meeting one's hidden lord.
Significant.
Comments: Abounding one's screen.
Position not appropriate indeed.
The sun in the center: viewing a bin.
Shade, not brightness indeed.
Meeting one's hidden lord.
Significant movement indeed.

The Original I Ching Oracle: Ritsema & Sabbadini

May I suggest you enquire about your biz venture, if it would be worth pursuing, if there
would be fruitful/positive/tangible results by ... say ... end July ? If the response is in
the affirmative, to be sure, follow it up with another question along the lines of 'is this
in response to my Q re. biz venture'. I'm suggesting this method cos at times the IC will
merely respond with what one needs to know at a certain point in time, not necessarily
taking the Q into consideration. Hence the response may reassure you that in the long run all
will be well, in general, but not with regard to the specific Q posed.