Dec 24 24
The Chariot
56. The Wanderer
These first few lines are the general aphoristic returns for the week. They are raw and uninterpreted; there to use how you’d like. (The specific readings follow.)
From “M.S.”: We very much like the metaphor of the Wizard of Oz — that is, frequently one has the very talent that they (often neurotically) think they lack — but since they can’t see it they set out to visit a place of presumed authority, to figure out how to officially acquire it — only to find out that they had it all along. (This is particularly common for people with traumatic pasts.) Any advice for developing personal confidence and avoiding wasteful/repeat trips to the Emerald city for official validations? To treat one’s own self as sufficient authority? (This has nothing to do with formal education, or learning generally — as obviously one can’t learn too much simply being an autodidact; and not at all in certain areas. It is more curbing the need for approval for those qualities that only one’s self can provide.)
The successful journey is when you have accepted that there is no conveyance, no time, no space — that you are not separate from anything — similar in fashion to the way an asset is equally a liability or a weakness.
The sphinxes don’t allow the journey, they are the situation; the energy of pursuance is the context of mystery.
Complete Reading
This week we pulled The Chariot. In grand or spiritual terms there is likely nothing to learn beyond accepting that humans are not separate from nature — they/we are specific incarnations but not outside the forces and principles that touch all things. This perhaps is why the charioteer has two yoked sphinxes pulling their cart.
Our first and only hexagram this week is 56, The Wanderer. When your inclinations (mentally or physically) lie outside society (the status quo) you should be reserved in your dealings with others. An outsider is a wanderer not a leader or a collaborator (at least at the time of wandering) so it is foolish to expect inclusion when you are at odds. Wander as long as needed, or never stop, but just know that until a time of reintegration you will have to keep to yourself. If your wandering is a kind of self-education it is still a private affair — you will only confuse (or worse) if you try and mix your modes.
- It helps to recognize yourself as part of nature and not outside it.
- One can harness the powers of this world but not understand them; act accordingly.
- It is dangerous for an outsider (or seeker) to confuse their position — not being integrated comes with great insight, but the wisdom dissipates (without focused, concerted effort) upon inclusion or intermingling with the group.
- The energy of pursuance is the context of mystery.
From “M.S.”: We very much like the metaphor of the Wizard of Oz — that is, frequently one has the very talent that they (often neurotically) think they lack — but since they can’t see it they set out to visit a place of presumed authority, to figure out how to officially acquire it — only to find out that they had it all along. (This is particularly common for people with traumatic pasts.) Any advice for developing personal confidence and avoiding wasteful/repeat trips to the Emerald city for official validations? To treat one’s own self as sufficient authority? (This has nothing to do with formal education, or learning generally — as obviously one can’t learn too much simply being an autodidact; and not at all in certain areas. It is more curbing the need for approval for those qualities that only one’s self can provide.)
The successful journey is when you have accepted that there is no conveyance, no time, no space — that you are not separate from anything — similar in fashion to the way an asset is equally a liability or a weakness.
The sphinxes don’t allow the journey, they are the situation; the energy of pursuance is the context of mystery.
This week we pulled The Chariot. In grand or spiritual terms there is likely nothing to learn beyond accepting that humans are not separate from nature — they/we are specific incarnations but not outside the forces and principles that touch all things. This perhaps is why the charioteer has two yoked sphinxes pulling their cart.
Our first and only hexagram this week is 56, The Wanderer. When your inclinations (mentally or physically) lie outside society (the status quo) you should be reserved in your dealings with others. An outsider is a wanderer not a leader or a collaborator (at least at the time of wandering) so it is foolish to expect inclusion when you are at odds. Wander as long as needed, or never stop, but just know that until a time of reintegration you will have to keep to yourself. If your wandering is a kind of self-education it is still a private affair — you will only confuse (or worse) if you try and mix your modes.