Dec 12 23
The Hanged Man (reversed)
47. Oppression (Exhaustion)
19. Approach
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.)
This period there is a general push for cultivating calmness, and then sharing the resulting equanimity.
However, there is resistance to developing this wise-cool-patience.
It is blocking progress. A fear of the future may be the stymying factor here.
Please know that all you can do right now is collect yourself. Then you can... actually no, just focus on sitting and being composed and even.
Complete Reading
This week we pulled The Hanged Man. When upright there is a suggestion to will change, that is to kind of relinquish oneself to a difficult situation, in the service of eventual betterment. When reversed, as it is here, there is a resistance to this kind of healthy surrender and patience.
Our first hexagram this week is #20, Contemplation (View). This hexagram utilizes two meanings for a single symbol — the first regards the importance of having a broad view, as from a high tower (metaphorically speaking, to be broadly informed). The second points to the act of being seen, as in a tower where a holy person can be seen, contemplating (separate from the fray). It is a kind of statement about leading by example — that is, if you are in possession of rare, wide experience/education (spirituality, politics, science, self-control) it behooves you to be seen; to be a visible example. There were two changes this week, of which the specific notes are: When it comes to the value of self reflection — it is not about our knowledge of the relation of our interior parts but our awareness of our effect on the world.
Our second hexagram, the one that suggests how best to meet the challenges (or the changes) is #52, Keeping Still, Mountain. “When a person has thus become calm, they may turn to the outside world. They no longer see in it the struggle and tumult of individual beings, and therefore have the peace of mind which is needed for understanding the great laws of the universe and for acting in harmony with them. Whoever acts from these deep levels makes no mistakes. The heart thinks constantly. This cannot be changed, but the movements of the heart—that is, a person’s thoughts—should restrict themselves to the immediate situation. All thinking that goes beyond this only makes the heart sore.”
- Patience and healthy relinquishment is being avoided — this evasion is detrimental to real progress.
- If you struggle and succeed in being intelligent, kind and deep, the public needs you.
- All thinking that goes beyond the immediate situation only makes the heart sore.
- Cultivating calmness helps one to see the great laws of the universe and to act in harmony with them.
This period there is a general push for cultivating calmness, and then sharing the resulting equanimity.
However, there is resistance to developing this wise-cool-patience.
It is blocking progress. A fear of the future may be the stymying factor here.
Please know that all you can do right now is collect yourself. Then you can... actually no, just focus on sitting and being composed and even.
Complete Reading
This week we pulled The Hanged Man. When upright there is a suggestion to will change, that is to kind of relinquish oneself to a difficult situation, in the service of eventual betterment. When reversed, as it is here, there is a resistance to this kind of healthy surrender and patience.
Our first hexagram this week is #20, Contemplation (View). This hexagram utilizes two meanings for a single symbol — the first regards the importance of having a broad view, as from a high tower (metaphorically speaking, to be broadly informed). The second points to the act of being seen, as in a tower where a holy person can be seen, contemplating (separate from the fray). It is a kind of statement about leading by example — that is, if you are in possession of rare, wide experience/education (spirituality, politics, science, self-control) it behooves you to be seen; to be a visible example. There were two changes this week, of which the specific notes are: When it comes to the value of self reflection — it is not about our knowledge of the relation of our interior parts but our awareness of our effect on the world.
Our second hexagram, the one that suggests how best to meet the challenges (or the changes) is #52, Keeping Still, Mountain. “When a person has thus become calm, they may turn to the outside world. They no longer see in it the struggle and tumult of individual beings, and therefore have the peace of mind which is needed for understanding the great laws of the universe and for acting in harmony with them. Whoever acts from these deep levels makes no mistakes. The heart thinks constantly. This cannot be changed, but the movements of the heart—that is, a person’s thoughts—should restrict themselves to the immediate situation. All thinking that goes beyond this only makes the heart sore.”