Why I can't get anything? 58.1.5-40 / 53.5-52

[Cometta]

I am sorry, I am in an awful state and need your help. I've been looking at my life, how many applied sacrifice, patience and superhuman efforts only to land in a miserable place; the more I persevere the more I regress. I asked if after all I'm capable of anything at all. 58.1.5-40. I understand that I'm not capable and I've been following stupid ideas, or that my feeling of unworthiness makes me do more in the wrong way.
Then I asked again if this belief in 'stripping'/ general lack of trust in life is the main problem I got 53.5-52.
I don't know how I will change from this pit to 'nothing will stop her'. I'd be grateful for any help.

 

[Piasa]

I asked if after all I'm capable of anything at all. 58.1.5-40. I understand that I'm not capable and I've been following stupid ideas, or that my feeling of unworthiness makes me do more in the wrong way.

I'd read this more like 58.5 when you base success on social validation or something in the outside world, it can be taken from you quickly (which is why it is dangerous). But if you find harmony in the core of your being (58.1), it belongs to you and will always be there to draw upon.
40 releasing something or doing something, in this context I'd think perhaps it's saying to forgive yourself. And 52, try your best to still your emotions.
53.5 it sounds like things could suck for awhile, but you are capable of the success that you want. It can't be held from you forever.

I'm sorry things have been so frustrating and fruitless. That is a horrible place to be, especially when you are trying everything and still can't move forward. I enjoy your posts here. You have a lot of wisdom to share. I hope things turn around for you soon.

 

[my_key]

I am sorry, I am in an awful state and need your help. I've been looking at my life, how many applied sacrifice, patience and superhuman efforts only to land in a miserable place; the more I persevere the more I regress.

It can be helpful to understand that there is no such thing as regression. Reframe your world and perhaps consider that you have moved forward into a land that you have visited before and which now has a whole bundle of different sights for you to visit and even to revisit some old sights that you did not fully see around before.

I asked if after all I'm capable of anything at all. 58.1.5-40.

This is a beautiful cast. 58 provides the medicine of joy, openness, and communicative resonance; the movement in 40 tells a story of clearing, release, and deliverance.

In regards to the patterns thus being displayed now in your world, perhaps, Yi believes it is possible to see that you are capable of open expression (58) through releasing blocked energy (40).

40 advocates that for you the best conditions on your inner landscape can be established by means of forgiving of your perceived excesses and the pardoning of your perceived offences. 58 advocates, in the image, for you to repeatedly open your heart, speak honestly, and then just let go.

58.1 - Recognise the softening that comes to open the door to better worlds. Trust the process and allow the emotions that are rising up now to be fully and freely expressed.

58.5 - Focus on how to joyfully correct the situation, rather than sink into it's depths as this will illuminate a way forward for you.

Beware of self manipulations that create avoidance of the truth. Perhaps it is time to consider what small truth you have been avoiding to speak in the time leading up to the situation now?

Then I asked again if this belief in 'stripping'/ general lack of trust in life is the main problem I got 53.5-52.
I don't know how I will change from this pit to 'nothing will stop her'. I'd be grateful for any help.

53 reflects a patient, natural unfolding — development that cannot be rushed along the path leading to balance and harmony. This path can can be a bumpy one to negotiate and is best walked when it is flanked by stillness and centeredness as this will provide the best conditions for ripening of your fruit that has been slowly growing (52).

Not knowing causes many a slip twixt cup and lip. The noble one will do nothing other than 'reside in eminence and power to improve the vulgar' to prevent this type of slip. At 53.5 your steady growth is approaching a moment of maturity. The turmoil you feel is that the new teaching has yet to ripen and fully settle, but when it does alight on the grave mound of all the 'outmoded' that you have been slowly burying then your world will change.

Stand firm and grounded like a mountain, offering stability for yourself and for others. Perhaps, less focus on what you see as negative traits. When you are striving too hard it very often creates a reverse wave in your world. Remember, every action has and equal and opposite reaction so focus on actions ( thoughts / behaviours ) that will promote a greater sense of a centered presence for you.

... of course, other interpretations may resonate with you more deeply.

Good Luck

 

[Cometta]

Thank you for the hope, for your assistance and your warm attention.
I feel like screaming but no sound comes out. I hope you forgive me this short answer.

 

[gene27]

I am sorry, I am in an awful state and need your help. I've been looking at my life, how many applied sacrifice, patience and superhuman efforts only to land in a miserable place; the more I persevere the more I regress. I asked if after all I'm capable of anything at all. 58.1.5-40. I understand that I'm not capable and I've been following stupid ideas, or that my feeling of unworthiness makes me do more in the wrong way.
Then I asked again if this belief in 'stripping'/ general lack of trust in life is the main problem I got 53.5-52.
I don't know how I will change from this pit to 'nothing will stop her'. I'd be grateful for any help.

hello, Ahlame

may I suggest that hexagram 58 line 1 is indicating to humans that self contained joy is the natural human state. The only problem is, we don’t know that. But if we accept it as our natural state, then whatever happens becomes ok. Our response is joyfulness. The first line in any hexagram generally refers to “ preconditions.” Here, however, we have evolved or devolved into the conditions of line 5, where we have allowed the mundane as of the humdrum world to soak our joy in sorrow. Things are not going okay. But maybe they really are going ok. Maybe we are just looking at the superficiality of the world as we see it, and allowing that to rob our joy.

Then we get 53 5, a hexagram and line that tells us that the best things in life take time to develop. My suggestion is that everytime anything goes wrong, we take a moment to say, thanks to the universe for bringing me one step closer to the things I desire, and for teaching me to be thankful in all things. With this attitude I would suggest that things will gradually improve, or maybe improve quickly

 

[Cometta]

hello, Ahlame

may I suggest that hexagram 58 line 1 is indicating to humans that self contained joy is the natural human state. The only problem is, we don’t know that. But if we accept it as our natural state, then whatever happens becomes ok. Our response is joyfulness. The first line in any hexagram generally refers to “ preconditions.” Here, however, we have evolved or devolved into the conditions of line 5, where we have allowed the mundane as of the humdrum world to soak our joy in sorrow. Things are not going okay. But maybe they really are going ok. Maybe we are just looking at the superficiality of the world as we see it, and allowing that to rob our joy.

Then we get 53 5, a hexagram and line that tells us that the best things in life take time to develop. My suggestion is that everytime anything goes wrong, we take a moment to say, thanks to the universe for bringing me one step closer to the things I desire, and for teaching me to be thankful in all things. With this attitude I would suggest that things will gradually improve, or maybe improve quickly

I was wondering why I had line 1 when line 5 expresses the "dissolution". Thank you for the connection. Obviously, there has to be a reference, a measure; without it, everything goes inbridled.

I lost the center that allowed me to be content and unconcerned. Maybe I've only seen glimpses of it but I remember how following my own rhythm is gratifying.
For many reasons, I lost trust to be heard and began to hide, to avoid, without ever complaining, until I believed I could no longer complain and that was when the flood swept me away.

After writing this post, I lost my voice. It was a revelation. My voice is naturally strong and I easily get enthusiastic to share, but I learned to stifle it because I was insulted. Since I asked this question no thought could calm me; it hurt, so I cried my eyes out.

I feel like it's coming back, even though I'm still scared and don't know what to do. I think 53.5 is telling me that when I'll be aware of the decline I've experienced, things will start to turn around. I have to tell, I want to confess what happened to me in honest words, I'm sure the blessings I've been given personally will come with it. I need that because it's the only weight that restores balance, I need it so I can find peace and contentment.