Jul 15 25
King of Wands
61. Inner Truth
64. Before Completion
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.)
Question from “B.R.B.”: How to be a realist without being cynical? Also, like how to develop a strategy of healthy self protection without being paranoid or projecting negativity?
Oracle reply: Realism is, perhaps, understanding that all humans are something specific and special — entities worthy of self improvement and self care, whilst cultivating a sincere awareness that such entities exist within forces and systems far more powerful than ANY individual thing. Ignoring the latter and putting all focus on the former, that is, working on one’s self at the exclusion of trying to see the outer awesomeness (said in the archaic sense) is unwise — simply because it is very unbalanced.
We are not isolated — we all speak ancient languages, rely on tools shaped by millennia of collective use, our bodies live by symbiotic relations to countless colonies of living microbial creatures — the elements that comprise us (like oxygen and carbon) are older than the earth itself. We are not pure or isolated.
Self protection is perhaps the wrong wording. There is simply too much random calamity to predict. Rather focus on proper deliberation times and caution. Being seriously guarded is very limiting to middle and long term success. Calculate risks but do risk. Also don’t be fatalistic if things don’t work out, you can and will begin again; you will get better at beginnings and endings.
Complete Reading:
This week we pulled the King of Wands. Here, a passionate desire to manifest and the ability and position to do it.
Our first hexagram this week is #61, Inner Truth. Intimacy without being exclusive; like openess, or Love. Another way, strength within whilst not resisting any outer, greater forces. A third way: a wall (like of an apartment or house) is a kind of illusion, yes it keeps one protected from the elements, but it is also simply a collection of atomic configurations, arrangements which are “ignorant” of human purpose — being more stuff in the universes — similarly, selfhood is a kind of illusory wall. Solitary, strong self centered thinking is illusory personal progress — aligning oneself with greater outer forces whilst is not. Powerful communities can only develop “when the bond is based on what is right, on steadfastness.”
There were three changes this week of which the specific notes are: bonds of alliance must be cultivated openly (factioning brings weakness), receive the intelligence of your superiors like the moon receives the light of the sun.
Our second hexagram, the one that suggests how best to meet the challenges (or the changes) is 64, Before Completion. This is the final hexagram of the I Ching. It describes the time before creation begins again. One can be ready for the return to creation — out of winter into spring. “The conditions are difficult. The task is great and full of responsibility. It is nothing less than that of leading the world out of confusion back to order. But it is a task that promises success, because there is a goal that can unite the forces now tending in different directions… Accordingly, in times before completion, deliberation and caution are the prerequisites of success.” The hexagram relates a kind of transcendental process for properly concluding a desired change. “If we wish to achieve an effect, we must first investigate the nature of the forces in question and ascertain their proper place. If we can bring these forces to bear in the right place, they will have the desired effect and completion will be achieved. But in order to handle external forces properly, we must above all arrive at the correct standpoint ourselves, for only from this vantage can we work correctly… Accordingly, in times before completion, deliberation and caution are the prerequisites of success.”
- Take thorough advantage of times when internal momentums match outer momentums.
- Solipsistic, self-oriented thinking is illusory personal progress — aligning oneself with greater outer forces is not.
- Truly powerful communities can only develop “when the bond is based on what is right, on steadfastness.”
- Bonds and alliances must be cultivated openly — factioning brings weakness.
- Receive the intelligence of your superiors like the moon receives the light of the sun.
Question from “B.R.B.”: How to be a realist without being cynical? Also, like how to develop a strategy of healthy self protection without being paranoid or projecting negativity?
Oracle reply: Realism is, perhaps, understanding that all humans are something specific and special — entities worthy of self improvement and self care, whilst cultivating a sincere awareness that such entities exist within forces and systems far more powerful than ANY individual thing. Ignoring the latter and putting all focus on the former, that is, working on one’s self at the exclusion of trying to see the outer awesomeness (said in the archaic sense) is unwise — simply because it is very unbalanced.
We are not isolated — we all speak ancient languages, rely on tools shaped by millennia of collective use, our bodies live by symbiotic relations to countless colonies of living microbial creatures — the elements that comprise us (like oxygen and carbon) are older than the earth itself. We are not pure or isolated.
Self protection is perhaps the wrong wording. There is simply too much random calamity to predict. Rather focus on proper deliberation times and caution. Being seriously guarded is very limiting to middle and long term success. Calculate risks but do risk. Also don’t be fatalistic if things don’t work out, you can and will begin again; you will get better at beginnings and endings.
Complete Reading:
This week we pulled the King of Wands. Here, a passionate desire to manifest and the ability and position to do it.
Our first hexagram this week is #61, Inner Truth. Intimacy without being exclusive; like openess, or Love. Another way, strength within whilst not resisting any outer, greater forces. A third way: a wall (like of an apartment or house) is a kind of illusion, yes it keeps one protected from the elements, but it is also simply a collection of atomic configurations, arrangements which are “ignorant” of human purpose — being more stuff in the universes — similarly, selfhood is a kind of illusory wall. Solitary, strong self centered thinking is illusory personal progress — aligning oneself with greater outer forces whilst is not. Powerful communities can only develop “when the bond is based on what is right, on steadfastness.”
There were three changes this week of which the specific notes are: bonds of alliance must be cultivated openly (factioning brings weakness), receive the intelligence of your superiors like the moon receives the light of the sun.
Our second hexagram, the one that suggests how best to meet the challenges (or the changes) is 64, Before Completion. This is the final hexagram of the I Ching. It describes the time before creation begins again. One can be ready for the return to creation — out of winter into spring. “The conditions are difficult. The task is great and full of responsibility. It is nothing less than that of leading the world out of confusion back to order. But it is a task that promises success, because there is a goal that can unite the forces now tending in different directions… Accordingly, in times before completion, deliberation and caution are the prerequisites of success.” The hexagram relates a kind of transcendental process for properly concluding a desired change. “If we wish to achieve an effect, we must first investigate the nature of the forces in question and ascertain their proper place. If we can bring these forces to bear in the right place, they will have the desired effect and completion will be achieved. But in order to handle external forces properly, we must above all arrive at the correct standpoint ourselves, for only from this vantage can we work correctly… Accordingly, in times before completion, deliberation and caution are the prerequisites of success.”