Hexagram 44: Coming to Meet

In the past you should have shown your creative powers more fully. It was not a time to stay inside your own problems. You should have turned to work that helps the people around you as well.

Even if you did follow that advice, you were not safe from mistakes. They looked small, but each one pulled others after it. They built up until the world around you, which had been ready to give you what you wanted, turned into a wall you cannot get past. Be ready for the chance that your worst fears about this will come true.

So the obstacles in front of you grew out of your own work, and that work was mostly good. How should you behave now?

Wait a while before you start to carry out your plans. The situation is too unsettled for them.

If you keep up the same pace, the results will be bad for you. What you need now is care and patience.

People around you

Whatever you think about it, you will have to hold back a little in your relationships with the people around you for a while. This is true above all for shared business plans. Some of them have to be moved to a later date, and some should be dropped as useless.

If you enjoy company, do not shut yourself away at work or at home. Why add stress you do not need? You will find your way out more easily if you spend some time talking with colleagues and acquaintances and listening to their problems.

Moving your attention this way will let you spend your energy on something useful instead of empty fuss.

Work

Circumstances are against you, and that can cause trouble at work. Your attempts to fix the situation will not help. It is better not to force things and not to grab at one thing after another. Act calmly and without hurry where nothing blocks you.

Do not think that today's standstill is a punishment for old mistakes. This is simply how events are running, and you cannot change it.

Your wish

Nothing can be done about your wish yet. The standstill has reached almost every part of your life, and this is no exception. You can still improve things by preparing the ground for what you will achieve later.