May 25 21
Three of Cups
62. Preponderance of the Small
32. Duration
Petite Reading
If something is positive, favorable or joyous in your life, savor it thoroughly but also take it in and imprint it. This creates a peak limiter, but also a familiarity from which to return (a model to reverse despair). The same is true for tragedies; mark them and know them. Your emotions/energy are like a waveform between the extreme parallels of happiness and sadness. The randomness of life will cause vortexes and eddies, some strong enough to cause drift and mutation, but if you develop a strong intimacy with your trials and victories you just might cultivate the flexibility to endure.
Complete Reading
This week we pulled the Three of Cups. Here we have the card of joyful abundance; think harvest festival in a good year. Perhaps there is a fulfilling end to a cycle coming or the arrival of a deserved celebration. Whatever cheerful surfeit has come about, make sure you square your shoulders to it and enjoy — there is a lesson in its peak.
Our first hexagram this week is #62, Preponderance of the Small. The I Ching often talks about the wisdom of knowing your place in a larger order; this may seem silly to those within a capitalist scenario, as striving to be a winner at all times seems the best way. But in any society trying to get things right in their own measure is wisest — knowing your place isn’t subservient (sometimes the most appropriate move is to demand a change of position). Perhaps “winning” is a cudgel and “appropriateness” is an epee. “We must understand the demands of the time in order to find the necessary offset for its deficiencies and damages.” There was one change this week of which the specific note is: restraint and adherence to a rule set.
Our second hexagram, the one that suggests how best to meet the challenges (or the changes) is #32, Duration. “Duration is a state whose movement is not worn down by hindrances. It is not a state of rest, for mere standstill is regression. Duration is rather the self–contained and therefore self–renewing movement of an organized, firmly integrated whole, taking place in accordance with immutable laws and beginning anew at every ending.” “…independence of the superior person is not based on rigidity and immobility of character. They always keep abreast of the time and change with it. What endures is the unswerving directive, the inner law of their being, which determines all their actions.” Endurance requires flexibility.
If something is positive, favorable or joyous in your life, savor it thoroughly but also take it in and imprint it. This creates a peak limiter, but also a familiarity from which to return (a model to reverse despair). The same is true for tragedies; mark them and know them. Your emotions/energy are like a waveform between the extreme parallels of happiness and sadness. The randomness of life will cause vortexes and eddies, some strong enough to cause drift and mutation, but if you develop a strong intimacy with your trials and victories you just might cultivate the flexibility to endure.
Complete Reading
This week we pulled the Three of Cups. Here we have the card of joyful abundance; think harvest festival in a good year. Perhaps there is a fulfilling end to a cycle coming or the arrival of a deserved celebration. Whatever cheerful surfeit has come about, make sure you square your shoulders to it and enjoy — there is a lesson in its peak.
Our first hexagram this week is #62, Preponderance of the Small. The I Ching often talks about the wisdom of knowing your place in a larger order; this may seem silly to those within a capitalist scenario, as striving to be a winner at all times seems the best way. But in any society trying to get things right in their own measure is wisest — knowing your place isn’t subservient (sometimes the most appropriate move is to demand a change of position). Perhaps “winning” is a cudgel and “appropriateness” is an epee. “We must understand the demands of the time in order to find the necessary offset for its deficiencies and damages.” There was one change this week of which the specific note is: restraint and adherence to a rule set.
Our second hexagram, the one that suggests how best to meet the challenges (or the changes) is #32, Duration. “Duration is a state whose movement is not worn down by hindrances. It is not a state of rest, for mere standstill is regression. Duration is rather the self–contained and therefore self–renewing movement of an organized, firmly integrated whole, taking place in accordance with immutable laws and beginning anew at every ending.” “…independence of the superior person is not based on rigidity and immobility of character. They always keep abreast of the time and change with it. What endures is the unswerving directive, the inner law of their being, which determines all their actions.” Endurance requires flexibility.