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Will the Trainer Work with Me? 41.3

David_Denmark

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There is something I would like to learn and to do it you need an expert teacher. It's not easy to find this kind of teacher and they are very selective about their students. I have had one previous teacher for another level but now I'm ready to move on, for that I need a new teacher. I reached out to this person and he got back to me telling me that he's not sure if he will be able to work with me, that first I need to do some preliminary work and then get back to him. So I've already started that work.

In the meantime I asked the Oracle, "Is X likely to take me on as an apprentice after I do the prelimenary work?

It answered 41.3, the changing line being "‘Three people walking, hence decreased by one person.
One person walking, hence gains a friend."

On the surface level seeing a word like "decreasing" as representative of hexagram 41 can make a person think of something negative, something being taken a way and therefore a "no". But I don't see it that way, it actually looks quite positive.

I did feel like a a lowly apprentice with nothing to offer this teacher when I reached out to him..because bascially, I'm asking for something from him but have nothing to offer him in return.

But Hilary's translation of 41 has the following to say, "Yi offers reassurance: even when you have little to give, making offerings is not wrong. Trusting your insight and persevering in your chosen direction, you understand why you are doing this, rather than dwelling on what you are giving up. You may still wonder how you can do it, or how much you are expected to give"


This seems like there is at least some hope that it will work out, especially considering the related hexagram being "Great Taming means doing this work with an end in mind – thinking of what can be achieved in future by controlling and accumulating the energies available now. Steady persistence over time, letting each crop complete its growth, will yield good harvests."
Which sounds exactly like what I'm doing, not only in the preliminary work but in life in general.

For some of you experts out there, do you think I've perceived this reading in the best possible way?

Any insights would be appreciated.

Thank you!
 

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I am certainly no expert, but I can comment on my impressions and then perhaps some of the more experienced diviners here will add their thoughts too.

Yes, I think the reading indicates some reason for hope that it will turn out. Your thoughts about it are sound. And when we become students we do offer something. A teacher cannot be a teacher without students. The changing line seems to reflect some of what you have told us:

"Three people walking, hence decreased by one person" --- you are moving on from your previous teacher

So now you are the "one person walking". "Hence gains a Friend" seems to indicate that this new teacher will in fact help to take you to the next level.

With the third line changing the "yang" operator is hexagram 15. I understand from Hilary that that is the "Way into" your 41 (in this case) situation. The "yin" operator is hexagram 10 which is the "way out". I understand that as meaning Hexagram 15 has brought you to 41. And you are relating to that through H 26. And the "way out" I think of us being part of "what to do" if you choose to persist with your hope. In addition to considering Hexagram 41 and 26 it may help you to consider Hexagram 15 and 10.

And the nuclear figure is Hexagram 24. That makes sense. You are wanting to return to your role as a student at a higher level.

(If my understanding of yin and yang operators is incorrect I trust that someone more knowledgeable than I am will correct me.)
 

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Hi Jumpingmouse,

Thank you for the confirmation and additional insites into the yin and yang operators. I'll let you know what happens. I'm convinced that when we're walking our path with integrity, doing the best we can, everything that furthers our growth comes to us at the right time. Nevertheless, sometimes I guess we all have a sense of curiosity about what will be ..
 

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