Getting a job with Yijing 易经
With the global economic malaise, the most common questions readers ask me nowadays are related to career, job and employment. Employed ones will ask if they will be retrench by their company in the near future. Unemployed ones will ask what is their chances of finding a job. Retrenched ones will ask if they should go for a career switch or even venture into business.
Few weeks ago, a friend who just graduated from university asked for my help to assess his chances of getting a job in this quiet market as well as improving his chances of getting a job fast. I used the time of him posing the request to me to erect a Yijing divination chart. The series of hexagram images for this chart is depicted in the enclosed picture.
Having seen the hexagram 天地否 “reject”, I am of the opinion he had rejected a job offer not long ago and because the pay was an issue to him. Further analysis of the hexagram images tell me he should need to take some time (due to the 风山渐 “delay” hexagram) and observe (inline with the 风地观 “observe” hexagram).
Looking at the overall composition of the charts, I told him it is not likely he will secure within 2 weeks. 3 weeks is most likely the timeframe within which he can land a better paying job. To aid his chances further, I advised him on some things to place in his room as part of our holistic approach of improving his chances.
On 9 June 2009 this week, I receive a call from this friend. His voice punctuated with ectastic overtones, told me euphorically that he landed a job with a pay higher than what he asked for. I checked back to my diary on the date he had asked me for help. It was on 19 May 2009, exactly 3 weeks from the day he asked for my advice!
There are actually many more other signals that can be interpreted from this Yijing divination chart. However, I did not list all of them down here as readers needs to be trained in Yijing before they will understand what I mean.
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