Mar 09 21
Four of Wands (reversed)
10. Treading [Conduct]
38. Opposition
Petite Reading
There is continual crisis and difficulty; you understand it, yet you feel trapped. Transcend your limitation(s), accept it/them. Figure out what you can do, what it is you do well. Focus on that; and give it everything you have (for a time). The other limitation will probably melt away in your ascendancy.
Complete Reading
This week we pulled the Four of Wands, reversed. In this aspect the card points to the subjects of inner harmony and outer discord. It intimates that there may exist interior certainty/clarity (self knowledge) whilst outside in the world there is a constant misfiring — either with a group or significant other.
Our first hexagram this week is #10, Treading (Conduct). There was one change (note at the end). “One is handling wild, intractable people. In such a case one’s purpose will be achieved if one behaves with decorum. Pleasant manners succeed even with irritable people.” Since there are many different types of humans, of which few are superlative — harmony is a difficult quarry. Some people are superlative as they manage to comprehend quite a few perspectives simultaneously whilst others are superlative because they are fair, strong and unflappable. But most people are scared and witless. These superlative types, when given roles of leadership or import can be defended and supported (not without the usual idiotic or wildcard objectors). It is when people with no superlative skills (perhaps besides uncommon selfishness) are given leading or important roles that social orders start to crumble. Arbitrariness in power leads to mass feelings of meaningless and petty opportunism. Perhaps it is best to seek, follow and support superlative people. (The specific note regarding our change this week councils to persevere through danger this period.)
Our second hexagram, the one that suggests how best to meet the challenges (or the changes) is #38, Opposition. “When people live in opposition and estrangement they cannot carry out a great undertaking in common; their points of view diverge too widely. In such circumstances one should above all not proceed brusquely, for that would only increase the existing opposition; instead, one should limit oneself to producing gradual effects in small matters. Here success can still be expected, because the situation is such that the opposition does not preclude all agreement.” Nothing is really whole; all things/aspects are interdefined and intersytemical. This doesn’t mean that there isn’t discomfort and confusion — ultimate connectivity and economy are beyond our timescales and understanding — subsequently the world is often experienced as a giant mess. But if you know that fragmenting craziness of an explosion can be relatively tracked and isn’t crazy at all — you can find your place/job in helping with the mess.
There is continual crisis and difficulty; you understand it, yet you feel trapped. Transcend your limitation(s), accept it/them. Figure out what you can do, what it is you do well. Focus on that; and give it everything you have (for a time). The other limitation will probably melt away in your ascendancy.
Complete Reading
This week we pulled the Four of Wands, reversed. In this aspect the card points to the subjects of inner harmony and outer discord. It intimates that there may exist interior certainty/clarity (self knowledge) whilst outside in the world there is a constant misfiring — either with a group or significant other.
Our first hexagram this week is #10, Treading (Conduct). There was one change (note at the end). “One is handling wild, intractable people. In such a case one’s purpose will be achieved if one behaves with decorum. Pleasant manners succeed even with irritable people.” Since there are many different types of humans, of which few are superlative — harmony is a difficult quarry. Some people are superlative as they manage to comprehend quite a few perspectives simultaneously whilst others are superlative because they are fair, strong and unflappable. But most people are scared and witless. These superlative types, when given roles of leadership or import can be defended and supported (not without the usual idiotic or wildcard objectors). It is when people with no superlative skills (perhaps besides uncommon selfishness) are given leading or important roles that social orders start to crumble. Arbitrariness in power leads to mass feelings of meaningless and petty opportunism. Perhaps it is best to seek, follow and support superlative people. (The specific note regarding our change this week councils to persevere through danger this period.)
Our second hexagram, the one that suggests how best to meet the challenges (or the changes) is #38, Opposition. “When people live in opposition and estrangement they cannot carry out a great undertaking in common; their points of view diverge too widely. In such circumstances one should above all not proceed brusquely, for that would only increase the existing opposition; instead, one should limit oneself to producing gradual effects in small matters. Here success can still be expected, because the situation is such that the opposition does not preclude all agreement.” Nothing is really whole; all things/aspects are interdefined and intersytemical. This doesn’t mean that there isn’t discomfort and confusion — ultimate connectivity and economy are beyond our timescales and understanding — subsequently the world is often experienced as a giant mess. But if you know that fragmenting craziness of an explosion can be relatively tracked and isn’t crazy at all — you can find your place/job in helping with the mess.