Should I meet up with old friends? 38.3 > 14

[LittleMissSunshine]

Jeez, this reading is so tricky because the changing line is decidedly negative, but the outcome is seemingly positive. I'm having difficulty resolving the two (haha, Opposition indeed!).

My situation: I used to hang out with a group of people; we would go to different bars/clubs on the weekends. It was a big group, and sometimes other people would get invited, and there were some people I didn't like. I used to go regularly about a year ago, but I stopped because I felt like I had no connection with those people. I felt different from them - hence 38.

However, once when I was inquiring about applying for a job, the relating hexagram was 14 (I don't remember the present hexagram that yielded it), and I got the job. So, it seems to harbor success. However, the changing line seems to imply that my perceived differences that separate me from that group harbors humiliation and making no headway (socially, I assume).

How do I resolve these conflicting messages? Is what I possess in great measure the knowledge of those people and their outings?

My question was, "Would I have a good time if I went to this event?"

 

[marybluesky]

Hello Miss Sunshine!

Would I have a good time if I went to this event? 38.3>14
You felt like a Stranger (38) in that group but now can find something Valuable (14)(joyful moments?) there.
38.3 is an auspicious line all in all: "Liu: When the ox stopped, the cart moved back. He sees a man whose hair and nose have been cut off. Misfortune in the beginning, good fortune later."
The initial alienation is likely to give place to great moments.

Good Luck!

 

[moss elk]

Jeez, this reading is so tricky because the changing line is decidedly negative, but the outcome is seemingly positive.

Hello sunshine,

When you stop thinking that the related hexagram is the outcome,
You'll start to understand your readings.
This isn't tricky at all.

The answer is not 38.
The answer is not 14.
The answer is in the text of the line that connects them: 38.3

Ask youself this:
If meeting up with this group was like
Being robbed, and scalped, and having your nose cut off...

Is that something you would like to happen to you?

You'd survive it but it would not be.... pleasant.
It's not something one would willingly go into without having a higher purpose/very good reason for doing so.

Mary,
It doesn't say there will good fortune.
It says there will be 终 (Zhong1.)
(An end to it, a conclusion of it, as in: the ordeal will end)

:bows:
m.e.

 

[LittleMissSunshine]

Hi Mary and Moss Elk, thank you for your responses. I've decided not to go.

However, Moss Elk, you've left me with a question. Say I have a reading, and the present hexagram has a positive changing line, but the relating hexagram is decidedly negative (say, 12 or 36). If I follow your thinking, since the changing line is positive, despite the negative relating hexagram, the situation bodes well. Is this correct?

Also, does this mean that changing lines are more important than the hexagrams themselves?

 

[rosada]

I hope you'll go and give us feedback!

 

[moss elk]

Say I have a reading, and the present hexagram has a positive changing line, but the relating hexagram is decidedly negative (say, 12 or 36). If I follow your thinking, since the changing line is positive, despite the negative relating hexagram, the situation bodes well. Is this correct?

Yes, you've got it.
Please understand that this applies only to readings with a single change line.

Also, does this mean that changing lines are more important than the hexagrams themselves?

In a single-line-reading only, yes this is correct.
(Though I would caution not to forget what hex you are in and take a 'good fortune' out of the context of the hex, example: 24.2 content to return, promising. It is promising only if you do the Return part.. maybe letting that old friend talk you into lunch)
............................................................................

In a reading with multiple change lines,
You have to do the opposite.
You have to tune the lines out and focus on the meaning derived when hex A is married to hex B.
(Close examination will show that this is how the individual line meanings were derived.
I usually point to the easy example of 8.5 (2) to illustrate this)

Two things to consider with multiple change lines:
In the special text of 1 and 2 (1.7, 2.7),
The lines are ignored entirely, and replaced with a super-line-text.
(Our book is unfinished... several thousand more 'super-line texts' could have been written,
Someone tried to do that by writing The Forest of Changes,
But it was an unfinished work)

Even in a reading with two lines,
The the two lines are just details (looking at the grain of wood, though it is a table),
The big picture (the table) is seen by looking at the two hexes married together.
An example I can offer here is a reading of mine.

Good to do this work with Mr M?
(He asked me to be his manager, he is a musician)
42.2.5 (41)
If you look at the lines only....
Outstanding opportunity!, Kindness is our virtue!
...it looks great.
But, the situation came to nothing after 48 hours.
The Big picture shows 42 and 41, as Hilary pointed out: +1 minus 1= zero, nothing came of it.