Mar 29 22
Seven of Swords (reversed)
Often one gets to a place where they feel completely ineffective; often as much, the feeling is not because of a lack of effort or a clarity of goal. When such a situation reaches the level of ritualization, an air of the grotesque envelops. What to do?
Not all blockages are due to a lack of ideas or typical procrastination; sometimes a working difficulty can be caused by some sort of deception — really, it is not only within the world of politics or Hollywood agencies that willful deceit can be found. All signs this week indicate that duplicity is afoot and there doesn’t seem that much can be done about it — except… declaring it. It seems you/we know whether it is ourselves or an external party that is lying. So, make the judgment impartially and clearly — even risk harshness.
Also, know that all things are changing and that this time of unproductive treachery will move on…
This week we pulled the Seven of Swords, reversed. With this card, it’s hard to say whether the upright or reversed orientation is the more favorable; we are inclined towards saying that it’s the reversed position that is better. Either way the card intimates that a deception is underfoot, but the deceit is no longer hidden. The main thing to articulate is whether you are deceiving yourself or is it external? The point is that you know — just say it.
Our first hexagram this week is #21, Biting Through. Here, an exposition of the removal of obstacles (of the human kind). It is first said that breaking through an obstacle is always to be pursued: “when an obstacle arises, energetic biting through brings success. This is true in all situations.” Then follows a recommendation for how an obstacle is to be removed — neither too forceful nor too gentle: “unqualified hardness and excitement would be too violent… unqualified clarity and gentleness would be too weak… the two together create the just measure.” There were three changes this week, some turbulence should be expected this week — the specific notes are: even an erring towards harshness is forgivable here, stay gold (“true” and “impartial”) and “obstinacy leads to misfortune.”
Our second hexagram, the one that suggests how best to meet the challenges (or the changes) is #49, Revolution (Molting). An essential tenet of the I Ching is that everything happens in its own time and is always changing. Further, it wouldn’t be wrong to proffer that change and timing are the earth’s fundamental attributes. “Times change, and with them their demands. Thus the seasons change in the course of the year. In the world cycle also there are spring and autumn in the life of peoples and nations, and these call for social transformations… in the course of the year a combat takes place between the forces of light and the forces of darkness, eventuating in the revolution of the seasons. Humans master these changes in nature by noting their regularity and marking off the passage of time accordingly. In this way order and clarity appear in the apparently chaotic changes of the seasons, and man is able to adjust himself in advance to the demands of the different times.”
Not all blockages are due to a lack of ideas or typical procrastination; sometimes a working difficulty can be caused by some sort of deception — really, it is not only within the world of politics or Hollywood agencies that willful deceit can be found. All signs this week indicate that duplicity is afoot and there doesn’t seem that much can be done about it — except… declaring it. It seems you/we know whether it is ourselves or an external party that is lying. So, make the judgment impartially and clearly — even risk harshness.
Also, know that all things are changing and that this time of unproductive treachery will move on…
This week we pulled the Seven of Swords, reversed. With this card, it’s hard to say whether the upright or reversed orientation is the more favorable; we are inclined towards saying that it’s the reversed position that is better. Either way the card intimates that a deception is underfoot, but the deceit is no longer hidden. The main thing to articulate is whether you are deceiving yourself or is it external? The point is that you know — just say it.
Our first hexagram this week is #21, Biting Through. Here, an exposition of the removal of obstacles (of the human kind). It is first said that breaking through an obstacle is always to be pursued: “when an obstacle arises, energetic biting through brings success. This is true in all situations.” Then follows a recommendation for how an obstacle is to be removed — neither too forceful nor too gentle: “unqualified hardness and excitement would be too violent… unqualified clarity and gentleness would be too weak… the two together create the just measure.” There were three changes this week, some turbulence should be expected this week — the specific notes are: even an erring towards harshness is forgivable here, stay gold (“true” and “impartial”) and “obstinacy leads to misfortune.”
Our second hexagram, the one that suggests how best to meet the challenges (or the changes) is #49, Revolution (Molting). An essential tenet of the I Ching is that everything happens in its own time and is always changing. Further, it wouldn’t be wrong to proffer that change and timing are the earth’s fundamental attributes. “Times change, and with them their demands. Thus the seasons change in the course of the year. In the world cycle also there are spring and autumn in the life of peoples and nations, and these call for social transformations… in the course of the year a combat takes place between the forces of light and the forces of darkness, eventuating in the revolution of the seasons. Humans master these changes in nature by noting their regularity and marking off the passage of time accordingly. In this way order and clarity appear in the apparently chaotic changes of the seasons, and man is able to adjust himself in advance to the demands of the different times.”