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What will happen if I follow new career? 48.4 to 28

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I have been making preliminary plans over the past year or so to move into a new profession. I have done well financially from my career so far but it doesn't really satisfy me and has left me worn out spiritually and my life somewhat unbalanced; there is something else I believe I would rather do and that will serve me better over coming decades, giving me more geographic flexibility and enabling me to play a more active role in society. The time for making a firm commitment to the new intended route is just about here and out of interest I asked I Ching for its take.

48.4 reads "the well is being lined. no blame". I take this as a positive thing - the well is something that provides replenishment, and repairing the well may mean that I am mending the structure of my life through which I will be able to receive replenishment? I have heard 48.4 referred to as "returning to the source: one has paused to replenish the reserves", which echoes somewhat my recent experiences - I have taken a break from my work and have been concentrating more on myself (having neglected myself somewhat, especially spiritually, for several years) and have been setting up plans for the next stage and a shift.

Hex 28 says "the ridgepole sags to the breaking point. it furthers one to have somewhere to go. success."
Should this be interpreted as what will consequently happen should I follow the new path - that I will reach breaking point? Wilhelm mentions that one needs "to find a way of transition as quickly as possible". I take it as meaning that I ought to be under no illusions this will me quite a challenging shift and I shall need to move fast and be prepared and coordinated to ensure success?

Wilhelm speaks also in his commentary on hex 28 of "the tree, which stands firm, even though it stands alone, and the attribute of Tui is joyousness, which remains undaunted even if it must renounce the world".

I take this as positive sounding? In a sense I have somewhat "renounced" the world to some degree by taking steps away from something that was rewarding financially, but in which I did not feel I could endure, and have done so in a deliberate and quite careful way.

I appreciate anyone's thoughts on this.
 

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Hi bologna_tendra,


I see it this way:

imagine yourself inside your well, overwhelmed and alone, repairing and strengthening its walls and pondering, searching and measuring the best way to do it. - If you want to get water out of the well, this has to be done!No one can do it for you! - You are on your own and you are invited to go ahead decisively in this repair.

" What will happen if I follow new career? 48.4 to 28"

The answer the yijing gave, is related to what I wrote.

Cheers, :)


breakmov
 

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This is good, it's what I would expect to hear, and is sensible advice. I like the image of repairing the well, it is very exact and fitting foe the scenario.
 

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Hi bologna_tendra

What will happen if I follow new career? 48.4 to 28

'Replenishing 'through 'Great Exceeding'. Getting nourishment through exceptional activity. You have been bleeding yourself dry so now you feel a change of career will help give you a new life.

The inner strengthening that you talk about is good and there is no fault in having done that (48.4); the tiles are lining your being, shoring up the sides in preparation for your next step. The nuclear of 48 is 38 Diversity which carries a sense of 'seeing things differently'. Maybe the driving force of this reading is urging you to take a step back and consider all perspectives. It may be that what you have is enough and trying for more will not necessarily bring the type of rewards that you are hoping for. The fan yao 28.4 speaks of this.

Wilhem does extol the joy in standing resolutely alone, however, in 28 he also says 'The problem must be solved by gentle penetration to the meaning of the situation, then the change over to other situations will be successful'. Hex 48 expressly says that you can 'move the city but you can't move the well'. So even if you follow a new career you need to understand that the things within you that need fulfillment will still be the same.

Maybe the exceptional activity has to be undertaken where you are, especially as the best option as you step into the body and mind of the noble one in 48 is to ' encourage the people in their work and exhort them to help one another' (Wilhelm 48 - image). Perhaps, a pointer here about the isolation that you feel in the world, personally and in your job, and that working with others more closely will be one way of clearing out the mud in the bottom of the well. Perhaps, this is the source of your misfortune - the place in which you are coming up short and which has damaged your bucket, thus allowing the water of life to drain away, (48 - judgement)

So my interpretation has a different take than yours. There is, for me, a sense about this response from Yi that the grass is always greener on the other side and you have to be sure that this is truely where you want to be.


......of course, it may mean nothing like this at all for you.

Good Luck.
 
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During 48.4, one is not much use to other people.

Important things have to be done for you during that time,
things that nurture you, and allow you to become a resource for others.
Maybe spiritual & emotional rehab?
 

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Important things have to be done for you during that time,
things that nurture you, and allow you to become a resource for others.
Maybe spiritual & emotional rehab?
This is somewhat of the situation in the past 12-18 months - I have been dedicating time and care to myself and more spiritual dimensions and it has been a beneficial time - and this is ongoing and will always continue to be - there's no finish point to it. There has been a lot of emotional rehabilitation and there is more to do, so your comments on 48.4 ring true.

I have a plan in place now to make a change in a professional dimension which I believe would assist in the general change that is going on in my life; this plan would take a further 18 months from now and if executed mean I would complete the shift to the new field of work by autumn of 2021. This field of work is more concrete and less abstract, more involved with people as opposed simply to information.
 

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Hello;

Your current career deprives you of some essential aspects in the life. By changing it, you repair the "well"- the source of joy and meaning- amid the chaotic environment.
 

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Your current career deprives you of some essential aspects in the life. By changing it, you repair the "well"- the source of joy and meaning- amid the chaotic environment.
Thank you Mary Bluesky, this is somewhat my feeling on the matter and the image of the well resonates with me. It heartens a bit more the confidence already inside me.
 

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