Now – and more importantly – look at what happens to our minds when using terms like yin and yang. Our minds immediately want to make them into something definite, tangible, measurable even though in our mountain example they are changing from moment to moment and in any case aren’t really measurable things at all, rather relationships.
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Yi: Will Trump’s trial lead to riots? 32-3 > 40 < 43
There is no indication of mass riots,
rather the Supreme Court’s resolution will be respected since the controversy belonged there all along
so the result will not be exacerbation but a dissipation of tension.
Ekphrastic Haiku: still life with tree and bench
here I sat …
Article 65: Materialism as Gatekeeper
This sort of approach is much easier to come up with if you have a more open view which values all sorts of experience modalities rather than trying to limit everything to objective physical measurement alone. It’s not that the latter is unhelpful or wrong, it’s just that it is a fairly narrow spectrum of what can be used to effect thorough diagnosis; it is incomplete, overly narrow.
Article 64: Toltec I Ching #25 ䷡ Radiating Intent
‘Act as though your every thought was being inscribed in stone…. Dedicate each of these spirit-stones of your intent to the living pyramid of creation. Cultivate good will toward all.’
Article 63: the binding principle in religiosity
Graspings: wholes, not wholes; convergent divergent, consonant dissonant, from all things one and from one thing all. Heraclitus. c 500 BC
Yi: Kissinger to China 59-3 > 57 < 27
He dissolves his self; no remorse.
See the Great Man; move in the implied direction.
Expect geopolitical softening….
Article 62: Meeting the Devil
Let not any one pacify his conscience by the delusion that he can do no harm if he takes no part, and forms no opinion. Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.
John Stuart Mill
Shapeshifters Almanac: July 19
July 19:
A virgin forest blossoming.
Eight Haiku – Van Gogh
Such sparkling unity of sky and earth
breaks
the pattern of our hearts!
Article 61: On the Nature of Good and Evil
The subject for this Article arises because promoting good immediately involves either not promoting evil or encountering evil as it arises in both inner or outer mandalas.
Article 60: Promoting Goodness as over-arching Intention.
SUMMARY: You are procrastinating. Your conscience demands things be acted on and the hour is growing late. Don’t find excuses to keep you from speaking and acting as you should. Now is the time to channel your righteous indignation into creative acts that touch others’ hearts. Rage not against injustices done to you, but against the injustices done to others. The momentum is with you.
Transitioning…
I feel a transition coming on. …
Meanwhile, two little snippets from my peripatetic readings today.
Yi: Coup or Maskirovka? 47 >48 < 37
Prigozhin was genuinely in a bind and felt the need to make a bold move (47). Nuclear 37 FamilyClan indicates that he and Wagner have good relations with the State. Changing lines 3 & 4 are at
the level of Wagner Command (3) and MoD command (4) with Putin at 5. 3 was challenging 4’s
authority. Hidden elements at play (Water below in 47) were brought out into the open (Water
above in 48) actually becoming a source of well-being, so the operation was a success.
Yi: Russia’s relationship with Ukraine after SMO 42-2,3,4,6 > 43 < 23 (Take Two)
Times of shock and impactful change may yield a better future with higher and better
civilization or nation helping a lower and inferior one to mutual benefit after a change of
local leadership. However, the hexagrams seem to indicate that there is a long way to go
through #51 Shock & Awe before this is over.
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