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What should be my takeaway from this chain of errors? 28.2.3.5-?16

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I was recently caught up in a chain of errors for a client's project. It was the sort of thing where I was the front line/face of the problem, but my role in it was that I didn't catch the error made by the person who was responsible for the piece of information. However, he's the manager of the project and my supervisor, not the other way around, and I don't check his work. Still, it would have been ideal if I had noticed the problem and corrected it before it was public. I ended up in a weird situation where the vibe is that it is my fault and I ended up apologizing. I don't think there will be any serious repercussions for me from this but it doesn't feel nice, if that makes sense.

I asked two separate questions. The first, "What should I do about this?" 47.2.5->16

I asked this immediately after it happened and the two lines were fairly clear to me. 47 usually signifies some situation where a lot of the anxiety and feeling of oppression is self-generated; I am beating myself up over this, and could stop feeling so oppressed if I just got a handle on it. Also an accurate picture of the situation: "There are words, not trusted." They gave me an inaccurate set of words to use. Line 2 told me I should make amends and apologize ("thank offerings") to the bureaucrats, in this case my bosses. Line 5 sort of says the same but also that there's an element of being the scapegoat to the whole thing, or a sense of unfair oppression.

Based on that reading, I quickly apologized and took more blame than I should have, which seemed to ameliorate them. It was definitely the best of course of action, though I've since gotten a nice but patronizing message from someone higher up suggesting how I can improve on catching things (with no mention of the core error from a boss which led to the issues. Oh well.)

Still feeling bad about it several days on I asked, "What's the takeaway from this for me?" and got 28.2.3.5->16.

This seems to just be Yi saying this came out of pressure and stress (28) and if I had more time/fewer other things to juggle, I might have caught the error. Line 3 emphasizes this. I'm less sure of 2 and 5 but it seems to be suggesting no great harm will come from this odd chain of events ("no blame no praise" in line 5) and that I should quit focusing on it ("nothing that does not bear fruit" in line 2).

I would love insight on how 16 is playing into this. I received 16 many times recently in the lead-up to landing a jawdropping deal I did not expect to get (and which makes it all the weirder personally than I keep focusing on this problem with the smaller client/job, which didn't even originate as my fault. Augh!)

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