Petite Reading
        The message this week seems to be identifying a personal liability in a larger problematic; that is, not spending time diagnosing what is wrong with the world at large (there are times for that) but identifying one’s own fraudulent and damaging part in it.

Complete Reading
        This week we drew the Justice card in reverse aspect. Here the subject is self deception, of the willful variety. Take special note as to how the obstacles you face are related to your pet delusions. This is a card of personal accountability. The best way forward this period will not be pointing the finger but looking in the mirror. (Be both Laura Linney and Richard Gere in The Mothman Prophecies).
        This week we rolled a hexagram with no changes, so how we enter the week will be relatively how we exit it. Our hexagram is number 45, Gathering Together (Massing). Using the symbolism of swelling waters, in danger of breaking their banks, the topic here centers around the gathering together of masses of people. We have rolled this hexagram quite a few times and the message has become fairly clear. In order that large masses of people are to get along they have to have a leader and something like a shared goal of morality (could be religious, could be secular). Prosperity happens when ancestry (the past) and progeny (the future) are felt to be mutually positive; this is true for blood family or a nation. Casting aspersions on all external binding elements is like a levee at the breaking point. Finding what is common to all is imperative to prevent chaos. But of course horrors have been visited upon this planet many, many times over. This subject makes us think of Yeat’s poem The Second Coming — written all the way back in 1919 “in the aftermath of the First World War and the beginning of the Irish War of Independence.”