Hello! I am brand new to the forum as a member, though I have been reading for about three months.
I am an avid student of astrology, and in 2013 I foresaw that I would get very sick in 2014 or else suffer a severe injury. Turned out it was getting very sick. I was very sick for over a year, lost my job, and lost all my savings, even went hungry for a few months.
I am in my late 50s. now workign regularly, Thank God, and have a modest salary but GREAT benefits, including dental, health, and short term disability.
But I see that I will continue to struggle with money. I really am financially ruined, except that when I did see the danger ahead in 2013, I put every spare penny to paying off my tiny condo, and I own it clear. In view of the struggle ahead, a friend who is very wealthy advised me to invest in a cheap rental property to generate income. This sounds like a good idea, but the stars don't change. Struggle is ahead for the next ten years, alternating financially good years with bad years. So I wondered if I should just take the bad years in stride, just allow for debt up to buy and fix up rental properties, confident that in the good years I will make my money back and earn a profit.
The question I asked is, Is it wise (or will I make a profit) if I allow for debt in the lean years in order to earn a better profit in the good years?
My answer was 45.3, transforming to 31
Many thanks for your thoughts.
Thank you for any help.
PS: At first I thought that getting 45, "Gathering" was an indication that I am on the right course. I must gather the materials necessary to fix up the rental place(s) and rent them out.
But getting line 3 puzzled me. From the Legge translation:
"3. The third SIX, divided, shows its subject striving after union and seeming to sigh, yet nowhere finding any advantage. If he go forward, he will not err, though there may be some small cause for regret."
This confuses me. If I go forward and find no advantage, I will never get out of debt (or possibly get no renters), and yet the rest of the line indicates only small cause for regret.
Legge says this in a footnote: "Line 3 is weak, in the place of a strong line, and advanced from the central place. The topmost line, moreover, is no proper correlate. But its subject is possessed by the desire for union; and though 2 and 4 decline to associate with him, he presses on to 6, which is also desirous of union. That common desire brings them together, notwithstanding 3 and 6 are both divided lines; and with difficulty the subject of 3 accomplishes his object." But I'm not sure where he is getting this certainty.
But the transformed hexagram, Attraction (31) seems to be saying that it will all end well, with renters in place.
I am an avid student of astrology, and in 2013 I foresaw that I would get very sick in 2014 or else suffer a severe injury. Turned out it was getting very sick. I was very sick for over a year, lost my job, and lost all my savings, even went hungry for a few months.
I am in my late 50s. now workign regularly, Thank God, and have a modest salary but GREAT benefits, including dental, health, and short term disability.
But I see that I will continue to struggle with money. I really am financially ruined, except that when I did see the danger ahead in 2013, I put every spare penny to paying off my tiny condo, and I own it clear. In view of the struggle ahead, a friend who is very wealthy advised me to invest in a cheap rental property to generate income. This sounds like a good idea, but the stars don't change. Struggle is ahead for the next ten years, alternating financially good years with bad years. So I wondered if I should just take the bad years in stride, just allow for debt up to buy and fix up rental properties, confident that in the good years I will make my money back and earn a profit.
The question I asked is, Is it wise (or will I make a profit) if I allow for debt in the lean years in order to earn a better profit in the good years?
My answer was 45.3, transforming to 31
Many thanks for your thoughts.
Thank you for any help.
PS: At first I thought that getting 45, "Gathering" was an indication that I am on the right course. I must gather the materials necessary to fix up the rental place(s) and rent them out.
But getting line 3 puzzled me. From the Legge translation:
"3. The third SIX, divided, shows its subject striving after union and seeming to sigh, yet nowhere finding any advantage. If he go forward, he will not err, though there may be some small cause for regret."
This confuses me. If I go forward and find no advantage, I will never get out of debt (or possibly get no renters), and yet the rest of the line indicates only small cause for regret.
Legge says this in a footnote: "Line 3 is weak, in the place of a strong line, and advanced from the central place. The topmost line, moreover, is no proper correlate. But its subject is possessed by the desire for union; and though 2 and 4 decline to associate with him, he presses on to 6, which is also desirous of union. That common desire brings them together, notwithstanding 3 and 6 are both divided lines; and with difficulty the subject of 3 accomplishes his object." But I'm not sure where he is getting this certainty.
But the transformed hexagram, Attraction (31) seems to be saying that it will all end well, with renters in place.