What can I expect if I travel home? 37.1.3.5>23

[aslnyc]

Think I got the line format right...Hexagram 37 changing lines at 1,3,5 changing into 23.

I have an opportunity to travel and see family next week after having been cooped up and alone this past month. Only hesitant due to fear of Omicron while traveling through the airport.

At first glance it seems like an obvious response: Go!

But 23 throws me a bit, as Stripping seems to be what I've been doing the past month, having to do some deep personal work. And the experience of being along has been a kind of Stripping away process. To me, it seems like an indication maybe I'm supposed to stay and keep this up.

Perhaps this reading is more clear cut than I realize, but I'm a novice at readings and confused by the role of the changing lines and 23 in this one.

 

[Trojina]

It can help to notice what the reading isn't saying and I think if this was advice to stay holed up and not go there are other ways Yi could have expressed this much more directly. So no, at first glance I don't think you can take it as 'don't go'.

However there's a lot here I can't see because it's about your personal connection to family and I can't tell if they are a support to you or they undermine you? It could be the support and enclosure of family upholds you in a 23 time. It could also be you need to develop or maintain your own boundaries within the family because they don't take you seriously enough. Seems to me you are being asked to think about how the family will impact on you.

The lines we could read as a story

line 1

'With barriers, there is a home.
Regrets vanish.'

line 3
Dwelling people scold and scold,
Regrets, danger: good fortune.
Wife and child giggle and giggle.
In the end, shame.

line 5

The king enters his own home.
Do not worry. Good fortune.

This looks like a scenario of keeping oneself safe, using boundaries. There's a slight threat to that in line 3 where things aren't taken seriously enough but in line 5 one is in control of one's own sphere again.

Is this about your actual family you are visiting do you think or about keeping yourself and your family safe from infection? It could be either.

23 is the erosion of structures that uphold you or simply their disintegration. The relating hexagram is that which surrounds the whole question, so here it is loss, stripping and as you say you have been going through that.

The reading doesn't shout 'don't go' but the reading does seem to be talking about making a very safe space where you are the king, the home owner. Does that refer to you being in the midst of your actual family or apart from them?

Also this could refer to you being king in your own physical space wherever you go Covid was boss for a long time and still is in some areas, I'm not up to date with world figures. Being vaccinated is quite a good 37.1 image, holding one's space, making a barrier to keep the home safe.

 

[redoleander]

37.1.3.5 is a casting I’ve received multiple times and for me it ended up meaning moving into my own separate place. 37.5 (again, just for me, and only thus far…) has always been about being independent and needing to be the one to fix, do, protect, live on my own, and so forth. The relating hex helps make sense of that I think. Something is being stripped away. I would lean toward this meaning to stay in your own home, or perhaps to stay on your own when you visit them? It could also simply be the progression of you going there, experiencing a mixed experience at home, and then returning to your own space (line 1, 3, 5)

 

[aslnyc]

Thank you both for the feedback.

The situation should be positive, as the family (my in-laws) are a source of support. And I'd even have my own space while there, so there would be some separation possible, a way to have my own 'realm' so to speak. But here at home I'm truly master of my domain right now. There I would be beholden to some of their schedule and needs. But that's fair. Having been riding solo for a whole month, it could do me good to break it up.

 

[Liselle]

Wonder if another possibility might be that you won't have to worry (line 5) if you do lines 1 and 3? For one, as Trojina alluded to, it could be a good idea to make sure of everyone's vaccination status.

 

[aslnyc]

That's possible. Everyone would be vaccinated. I've not been boosted due to health issues - one reason I'm a little nervous about passing through an airport with such a contagious variant going around. That said, I traveled several times last year without an issue, but I always found the airports stressful.

 

[Liselle]

I recently read that without a booster, your immunity's about 30%, which dismayed me, it sounds like barely being vaccinated.

(I won't have those words exactly right, and I'll have to look for the link - will post it if I can find it again.)

If it was me, I think I'd be worried, depending on how Omicron is where you are and where you'd be going.

But that's not much to do with the reading. Not completely sure what to make of it.

Any chance everyone could get their booster, and then you could go visit, two weeks after?

 

[Liselle]

I can't find the link, so there's a pretty good chance I'm not remembering it quite right. So take what I said with a grain of salt, or look into it yourself.

 

[aslnyc]

Close enough. Unfortunately the 2 vaccines don't provide strong protection after several months. The booster is effective for about 10 weeks then looses about 50% of it's protective ability, if I'm remembering right. Everyone there is boosted, so I'd be the odd bird out. I'm in a city with a very high transmission rate currently and would have to pass through a busy international airport. This has been the biggest obstacle to me leaving.