Nov 28 23
The High Priestess
16. Enthusiasm
23. Splitting Apart
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.”: Topicality has obviously transcended; to us, it is the worst of parasites. It seems to be thoroughly sucking all the dignity from humanity. Any advice for those (daily) trying to stave off this supreme, ever-intensifying, and poisonous leech?
Something is moving through; it is dark, and its momentum is legion — something like an inversion of Superstudio’s superstructure. What is its cause? What are its rules? After those have been attempted, perhaps you can see where it’s headed?
Is it really an isolated phenomenon? As a rule, if a past era had multitudes of aphorisms, texts and recommendations forright behavior (as ALL cultures have) one can be sure that these eras were full of the reverse, that is bad behavior. Shitty behavior is just part of human life.
The question is what do you have enthusiasm for? What is your path of least resistance? You may be less separate from what you perceive as undignified than you think.
Study the various interpretations of the High Priestess card, whilst simultaneously trying to get to know the bent of your intuition. You will see that what is happening is happening. The yin and the yang are interdependent.
Complete Reading
This week we pulled The High Priestess. Here, traditionally speaking, we have the mystery of intuition — that is, intuition in fullest possible aspect — so much so that most term it divination. However, personally speaking, we think of the “divination” of the High Priestess card, less in mystical terms, as we sincerely think of everything as mystical (from Slurpees to sloths, from hieroglyphics to hair ties). The entirety of the world is a swirl of cause, effect, mutation, persistence, friction, compounding, resisting and yielding of matter and forces. For us, the card is an intimation to become a person who can listen to the effect of the hidden cause. What is the origin of intuition? What is it aimed at?
Our first hexagram this week is #16, Enthusiasm. “The inviolability of natural laws rests on this principle of movement along the line of least resistance.” We find it highly interesting/fun to think of the laws of physics as being laws of enthusiasm. In human terms a quote from Austin Osman Spare: “There is more truth in our erotic zones, than in the whole of religions and mathematics.”
There were two changes this week, of which the specific notes are: it is uncommon but best when confidence is the natural result of sincerity and “A sober awakening from false enthusiasm is quite possible and very favorable.”
Our second hexagram, the one that suggests how best to meet the challenges (or the changes) is #23, Splitting Apart. There are times/situations where nothing can be done to stop inferior (selfish) people from rising to positions of influence and power. In such times people of worth will just have to sit and wait for more favorable conditions: “This suggests that one should submit to the bad time and remain quiet... it is impossible to counteract these conditions of the time. Hence it is not cowardice but wisdom to submit and avoid action.”
- Try to become a person who sees that every aspect of the world is mystical.
- Listen for the effect of the hidden cause.
- Enthusiasm is the basis for all “natural” laws.
- It is best when confidence is the natural result of sincerity.
- “A sober awakening from false enthusiasm is quite possible and very favorable.”
- In overwhelmingly dark times it is not cowardice to wait for a more favorable situation to act.
From “M.S.”: Topicality has obviously transcended; to us, it is the worst of parasites. It seems to be thoroughly sucking all the dignity from humanity. Any advice for those (daily) trying to stave off this supreme, ever-intensifying, and poisonous leech?
Something is moving through; it is dark, and its momentum is legion — something like an inversion of Superstudio’s superstructure. What is its cause? What are its rules? After those have been attempted, perhaps you can see where it’s headed?
Is it really an isolated phenomenon? As a rule, if a past era had multitudes of aphorisms, texts and recommendations forright behavior (as ALL cultures have) one can be sure that these eras were full of the reverse, that is bad behavior. Shitty behavior is just part of human life.
The question is what do you have enthusiasm for? What is your path of least resistance? You may be less separate from what you perceive as undignified than you think.
Study the various interpretations of the High Priestess card, whilst simultaneously trying to get to know the bent of your intuition. You will see that what is happening is happening. The yin and the yang are interdependent.
Complete Reading
This week we pulled The High Priestess. Here, traditionally speaking, we have the mystery of intuition — that is, intuition in fullest possible aspect — so much so that most term it divination. However, personally speaking, we think of the “divination” of the High Priestess card, less in mystical terms, as we sincerely think of everything as mystical (from Slurpees to sloths, from hieroglyphics to hair ties). The entirety of the world is a swirl of cause, effect, mutation, persistence, friction, compounding, resisting and yielding of matter and forces. For us, the card is an intimation to become a person who can listen to the effect of the hidden cause. What is the origin of intuition? What is it aimed at?
Our first hexagram this week is #16, Enthusiasm. “The inviolability of natural laws rests on this principle of movement along the line of least resistance.” We find it highly interesting/fun to think of the laws of physics as being laws of enthusiasm. In human terms a quote from Austin Osman Spare: “There is more truth in our erotic zones, than in the whole of religions and mathematics.”
There were two changes this week, of which the specific notes are: it is uncommon but best when confidence is the natural result of sincerity and “A sober awakening from false enthusiasm is quite possible and very favorable.”
Our second hexagram, the one that suggests how best to meet the challenges (or the changes) is #23, Splitting Apart. There are times/situations where nothing can be done to stop inferior (selfish) people from rising to positions of influence and power. In such times people of worth will just have to sit and wait for more favorable conditions: “This suggests that one should submit to the bad time and remain quiet... it is impossible to counteract these conditions of the time. Hence it is not cowardice but wisdom to submit and avoid action.”