What if I keep studying?" and Yi's answer, 22.1 to 52.

[MeltingPot247]

I've had a shocking past few weeks with extended family, which has stopped me in my tracks at a time that I saw myself as finally progressing and advancing personally and professionally.............I was going to take a year off my degree to work, but now I am wondering about carrying on with my study as it is the career that I really want to do with my life..............I've only had one good work experience from 2011 to 2013 -when I was working in a place/environment I loved, but moved for personal reasons which turned out really bad and life has been really up and down since then....I recently found out a referee was giving me bad reference (bitter lady, I should have known better then to use that two-face :-/ ).........I asked and received the following:........What if I keep studying?" and Yi's answer, 22.1 to 52. Hillary translation.........Beauty to Stilling??...........Key QuestionsHow can you make the essence visible to others?What do you choose to communicate?..........Oracle'Beauty. Creating success.Small yield from having a direction to go.'.........22.1 Making your feet beautiful.Putting away the carriage and going on foot........Key QuestionsWhat if there were nothing you had to do now?What if there were nowhere else you had to be?Where is your inner point of balance?..........Oracle'Stilling your back,Not grasping your self.Moving in your rooms,Not seeing your people.Not a mistake.'..................I don't get the answer - it only sounds like I will be making small steps towards who I want to be, and that I will be doing a lot of reflection which is part of this degree.....What carriage? Walking on foot doesn't sound easy, but seems good...because it's more natural and environmentally friendly lol.......Appreciate any help with this.

 

[Trojina]

22.1 says you don't need the vehicle and your job is to decide what vehicle it is you don't need. This might be the course itself. You may not need to do the course to get where you want to go you might be able to get where you want to go on your own.

I say this as my own journal has shown a few times now that this is what the line was saying to me. I'd be part of an organized way of doing something such as a course but in hindsight can see I didn't need it.

The vehicle is that which you are carried by. When you do a course you are carried along with it.

Perhaps you don't need it ?


Sometimes you can get where you want to go in your own way which may be slower and may be more of a winding road but that's okay.

 

[MeltingPot247]

Thank you

Thank you Trojina,Truth be told, the course is not my preferred way of doing what I want to do. I am not into the structure and deadlines as they feel restrictive and suffocating at times.........my main goal is to help protect and promote the well-being of children/young people.....this does not necessarily require a qualification - and I have done work with young people in the past - but with people/organisations whose approaches I did not agree with.......today I thought about working on developing a programme for women/children or mothers and daughters specifically as this would be the best thing I think I could do.....and just now I have thought about how I could encourage them to build social enterprises in our community as well......Wow, really thank you again Trojina. I feel better than I did this morning. Feeling really good.

 

[MeltingPot247]

Update:

What ended up happening is that I took 2019 and 2020 off my studies ... I worked in a frontline job within child protective services, however within the two years working I realised I was at the bottom of the food chain and not in the best or qualified position to advocate for the young people I worked with and I realised that I would not have the ability to change policies or the system without completing my qualification.

Rosada you had good timing to ask me for an update, as I had my reselection interview for year 3 today and I’m returning to study in 2021.

Thank you and Kind regards,
Me

 

[rosada]

Wow, that is interesting timing. So how would you equate this with the reading? I'm thinking the studies were the carriage and you needed to get some on the ground real life experience for a while? Maybe 52 was Stilling the schooling?

 

[MeltingPot247]

Wow, that is interesting timing. So how would you equate this with the reading? I'm thinking the studies were the carriage and you needed to get some on the ground real life experience for a while? Maybe 52 was Stilling the schooling?

Hexagram 22 Beauty or Grace, with Line 1 Going on foot, not needing the carriage from 52 Stilling.

In hindsight I’d say that the reading was indicating a need for time out from my academic study - to do the physical ground work and get a real feel for the career I was pursuing.

I see myself as already qualified via life experience but in the eyes of the world and my peers/colleagues etc the degree needs to be completed as evidence for them that I am.

I’d say that my journey during the last two years was 22.1 - going on foot, building on my child protection experience and trying to build a good reputation in the field ... but the issue was that I wasn’t taken as seriously by those with completed degrees that I worked with.

I think I made the right choice to pause my academic study. Being on the frontline showed me some of the flaws in the system - completing my course will allow me to work in policy etc.

 

[rosada]

Thanks for this update. I will now consider 22.1 as not just advising it's important not to put on fancy airs, but also that the situation requires real life experience. Interesting that this is line 1 of the sometimes fanciful 22. Grace - like before you go off and start imagining all sorts of lovely fairy tales you need to have your feet on solid ground first.