Nov 03 20
The Empress
61. Inner Truth
60. Limitation
This week we pulled the “Empress” card. Here we have Mother Nature or Gaia. The symbolism is wheat and stars and waterfalls and forest and sky — “Nature” writ large. Nature is primarily nourishing; and we should live thinking this way, because we are her/it’s children (we are of nature). But it is never wise to be wholly presumptuous with anything; Nature is capable of an occasional dark caprice — as the Sparks say: “Never turn your back on Mother Earth.”
Our first hexagram, which we partner with our tarot to describe (or further detail) the current situation, is #61, “Inner Truth.” To affect change (whatever that may be) one has to know the nature of that which one is trying to change. A surface change is not a lasting change as no time has been taken to become intimate with essences. Intimacy is the most important tool for creating improvements (or change), think powerful vulnerability! (Or more simply — Love.)
Our second hexagram, the one that suggests how best to meet the challenges (or the changes) is #60, “Limitation.” “Unlimited possibilities are not suited to humans; if they existed, human life would only dissolve in the boundless.” This very sentence you are reading right now is one of the prime examples of how meaning is only generated via limitation. A sentence has a structure; if the rules of a sentence changed with every reading it would have no meaning. Of course meaning can change or meaning can be shown to be otherwise, but not without the limitation of form. Respect limitation; know limitation.
Our extraction: With our tarot we started with — “Nature” as something nourishing but beyond our control. Then in our first hexagram we were introduced to the notion that — intimacy and vulnerability are the only ways to improve oneself, and by extension the world. And with the second and last hexagram had — limitation makes meaning. So here’s something like a practical congealer of all that by way of example: an endless feed of news or commentary or interaction has no limitation thus no meaning; it is possible that such preoccupations cause the loss of self definition and delivers one into the anxiety of meaninglessness.
Our first hexagram, which we partner with our tarot to describe (or further detail) the current situation, is #61, “Inner Truth.” To affect change (whatever that may be) one has to know the nature of that which one is trying to change. A surface change is not a lasting change as no time has been taken to become intimate with essences. Intimacy is the most important tool for creating improvements (or change), think powerful vulnerability! (Or more simply — Love.)
Our second hexagram, the one that suggests how best to meet the challenges (or the changes) is #60, “Limitation.” “Unlimited possibilities are not suited to humans; if they existed, human life would only dissolve in the boundless.” This very sentence you are reading right now is one of the prime examples of how meaning is only generated via limitation. A sentence has a structure; if the rules of a sentence changed with every reading it would have no meaning. Of course meaning can change or meaning can be shown to be otherwise, but not without the limitation of form. Respect limitation; know limitation.
Our extraction: With our tarot we started with — “Nature” as something nourishing but beyond our control. Then in our first hexagram we were introduced to the notion that — intimacy and vulnerability are the only ways to improve oneself, and by extension the world. And with the second and last hexagram had — limitation makes meaning. So here’s something like a practical congealer of all that by way of example: an endless feed of news or commentary or interaction has no limitation thus no meaning; it is possible that such preoccupations cause the loss of self definition and delivers one into the anxiety of meaninglessness.