I have asked the above question as I have started this Masters last January, but I have been not totally convinced right from the start. Now that I am finding myself having to write coursework for it, I am experiencing an incredible resistance, and here is the background of why I have cast a new reading on this subject: 1) I am wondering on the nature of my resistance to do the coursework: is it something I must overcome, or do I experience it beacuse I am doing something which is not the best course of action for me, and I am trying to 'force' it?
2) In the meantime, I think I have found a course of studies that I sense would be much more fitting my nature (as it is more experiential and more in line with what I'm looking for) , but it is a leap in the void, and it would certainly involve stepping out much more of my comfort zone mych more, plus starting a new committment (also financially). After the reading, I do have my felt sense of what to do, but I would like to have more insight, please, as it is not totally clear to me what the oracle's advice is. Here follows the reading, as I have done it online (this time):
Your reading resulted in the following hexagrams:
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Where are you being nudged and guided?
From the source, creating success, constancy bears fruit.
No mistake.'
Energy flows strongly into life's landscapes, bringing a great creative drive, from the source through towards fulfilment. Following it means a willingness to honour the flow and align actions with it. You can know your ideal, and then allow it to meld with the natural current, following signs and nudges and allowing them to draw you onward.
Then, you may experience Following as an effortless flow of supportive synchronicities or you may experience it as events unfolding in accordance with their own schedule, and failing to keep to yours. It can seem as if simply allowing yourself to be guided by the current is not enough, and you ought to be 'doing something'. But moving with the creative process is not a mistake.
A noble one at nightfall
Goes inside for renewal and rest.'
'Enthusiasm naturally means Following.'
'Following has no causes. Corruption, and then order.'
Letting the mature man go.'
And so joining and connected to it,
The king makes offering on the Western mountain.'
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Do you know how to work with such power?
It does not bite people.
Creating success.'
There are tigers in the outer world, and also inner tigers; as you get close, it's good to recognize the tiger for what it is.
Treading the tiger's tail is perilous yet if you can move in harmony with it, you can invite its power into your own life as protection, fertility and blessing. To do this without getting bitten requires both skill and care.
Look to the power and intensity you are drawn to in the situation: its specific danger is there, and also its potential gift.
A noble one differentiates above and below,
And makes a place for the people's aspiration.'
'Things are tamed, and then there are the rituals. And so Treading follows.'
2) In the meantime, I think I have found a course of studies that I sense would be much more fitting my nature (as it is more experiential and more in line with what I'm looking for) , but it is a leap in the void, and it would certainly involve stepping out much more of my comfort zone mych more, plus starting a new committment (also financially). After the reading, I do have my felt sense of what to do, but I would like to have more insight, please, as it is not totally clear to me what the oracle's advice is. Here follows the reading, as I have done it online (this time):
Your reading resulted in the following hexagrams:
 | changing to |  |
| 17 | 10 |
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Hexagram 17, Following
Key Questions
How are things flowing, and how can you move with them?Where are you being nudged and guided?
Oracle
'Following.From the source, creating success, constancy bears fruit.
No mistake.'
Energy flows strongly into life's landscapes, bringing a great creative drive, from the source through towards fulfilment. Following it means a willingness to honour the flow and align actions with it. You can know your ideal, and then allow it to meld with the natural current, following signs and nudges and allowing them to draw you onward.
Then, you may experience Following as an effortless flow of supportive synchronicities or you may experience it as events unfolding in accordance with their own schedule, and failing to keep to yours. It can seem as if simply allowing yourself to be guided by the current is not enough, and you ought to be 'doing something'. But moving with the creative process is not a mistake.
Image
'At the centre of the lake is thunder: Following.A noble one at nightfall
Goes inside for renewal and rest.'
Sequence
Following comes from Hexagram 16, Enthusiasm:'Enthusiasm naturally means Following.'
Pair
Following is paired and contrasted with Hexagram 18, Corruption.'Following has no causes. Corruption, and then order.'
Changing Lines
Line 2
'Bound to the small child,Letting the mature man go.'
Line 6
'Seized and bound to it,And so joining and connected to it,
The king makes offering on the Western mountain.'
Hexagram 10, Treading
Key Questions
Where is the tiger?Do you know how to work with such power?
Oracle
'Treading a tiger's tail.It does not bite people.
Creating success.'
There are tigers in the outer world, and also inner tigers; as you get close, it's good to recognize the tiger for what it is.
Treading the tiger's tail is perilous yet if you can move in harmony with it, you can invite its power into your own life as protection, fertility and blessing. To do this without getting bitten requires both skill and care.
Look to the power and intensity you are drawn to in the situation: its specific danger is there, and also its potential gift.
Image
'Heaven above, lake below: Treading.A noble one differentiates above and below,
And makes a place for the people's aspiration.'
Sequence
Treading follows from Hexagram 9, Small Taming:'Things are tamed, and then there are the rituals. And so Treading follows.'