Clarity,
Office 17622,
PO Box 6945,
London.
W1A 6US
United Kingdom
Phone/ Voicemail:
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I am considering leaving a job without having another job lined up. This could be considerably risky but also free me up to find new work. I also have personal reasons in this workplace for wanting to leave with some urgency. 12 is very confusing because the judgement seems to say I will be blocked and that only small things will come but I cast 12.1.3.4 -> 37. The lines seem auspicious but the image of Blocked to People in the Home looks like a bad unemployment situation. What is the oracle stating will happen if I leave without work already lined up?
I will be blocked and that only small things will come
It is my impression that responsibilities hold you here (37)
With 37 as the relating hexagram I first wonder if it is literal and your concern about income is connected to family responsibility but I also wonder if it is to with your sense of belonging to a way of life. I wonder if you really need to feel 'at home' at work and right now you don't because you have this sense of being blocked off/going nowhere.
Line 3 can feel very uncomfortable in that some part of you feels a kind of shame about something. In her commentary Hilary writes this is shame about asking for what you need and I have found some truth in this but only you can say how it applies here. Where do you feel some sense of shame holds you back ?
I also am a person who needs to feel connected to and at home with my work, but I don't. Maybe many people feel that way but some don't become as miserable and are able to do the work as a means to an end without as much misery.
I have got to think more about this because, of the many reasons I want to leave, shame is what drove me to ask the oracle if I actually should simply go now. I've had a romantic relationship with a coworker go sour and the anxiety around this person is somehow worse than the monotony and lack of purpose.
I've been considering your post over the last day or so and allowing it to shift my perspective about the oracle by thinking "I am" rather than "I will be."
Perhaps your family (or friends or community of people you love and trust) could help you with the transition, or give good advice re jobs. (background hexagram, could be your background, what is behind you).
100x yes.Perhaps 12 is also showing that this job has blocked you from inspiration needed to seek and find other opportunities?
Think it means, don't wait for anyone to give you approval, go looking for a new job now, decrease your offering to the job you are in (energy, emotion, anxieties).
Every day you go in, treat it as the last term in a school you know you are leaving soon.
Maybe it is saying that the job you need is one that creates peace?
It could be a social enterprise, a mediation service, working for the UN, anything that peace means to you!
Clarity,
Office 17622,
PO Box 6945,
London.
W1A 6US
United Kingdom
Phone/ Voicemail:
+44 (0)20 3287 3053 (UK)
+1 (561) 459-4758 (US).