"What if I went back to Sauris (Italy)" 7.2 to 2.

[Max Snowman]

I decided to post a follow-up on the reading of a few days ago (see "Reading for a Difficult Decision"), as in fact, to complement, I have done a different reading, with a different question. Even though I am meant to start the Masters soon, part of me feels unconvinced, not sure whether this is the right way to go, so to cut the issue through, I have asked the oracle if it wasn't a good idea for me to go back to Italy, to Sauris, the village where I live in the Alps. It has to be added that I suffer the winter climate in the UK; I miss not being in my climate, the snow and the mountains. The answer I got from the reading was Hex. 7 (the Army), changing line "nine in the second place" to Hex. 2 (the Receptive). The overall feeling I got from the reading is that it is best for me not to go -- or at least not immediately. I would still be going in February, in fact, and there are indications that staying would make more sense then; it may also be that this time it turns into a more permanent move (Hex 2 is also "the Earth", pointing to stability in space). This may perhaps also address, incidentally, my long-standing question on where to put a more steady base; having lived for many years between Italy in the Uk I was somewhat resigned to this long-term "commuting"; this may never end, in fact, but a part of me desires nonetheless a more steady base and a place I can call 'home'. I feel at home in many ways in the UK too, but there aspects of life here (and most notably, the climate) that make this place really hard for me, and almost against my fundamental nature (winter, especially, for me is a real suffering here). Hence the reading: at one moment I felt really exasperated, and didn't want this whole adventure of the Masters to even start. But given that I have the option of attending in person only for the first month, then attend online (and therefore I would be "physically" free from February onwards), this is perhaps the way to go. The second, changing line, however, proves hard to decipher: does it counsel me to go straight away or wait? From the general tone of the reading, and by "sitting with it", my overall sense is that I should wait, as the situation, right now, would plunge me in a state of inner war (in fact I am in that state anyway, as I am torn between the two options, but going immediately would perhaps exacerbate that state further). The development into Hex 2, however, gives me an overall sense that it would still be good to go, but not straight away. There are hints of that throughout: "But in addition to the time of toil and effort, there is also a time of planning, and for this we need this solitude". Where I live in Italy I would be basically alone. It's a situation I like; in fact I don't feel alone there, as I am surrounded by nature, trees and mountains, and I do get deep nourishment out of that. But beforehand I have to "let myself be guided", which could be a reference to attending the Masters; additionally, south and west could easily be identified as the location of the Masters (Devon), while north and east the town in the Alps where I live -- which is in NE Italy. I may be wrong with this reading, but this is what intuition tells me; if there is something else that stands out that I am not seeing (as it is often the case, when we are too close to something), please help me to see it.