Sep 13 22
The Magician
5. Waiting (Nourishment)
The concept of love languages has been around at least since the early 90s, but latterly is amidst a kind of resurgence. Though personally (not dogmatically) we think the notion leans toward the pop self-care zone, we do think it touches on something quite useful/important, namely, the improvement of communication by way of recognizing the differing ways of expressing and receiving information (and “love”). Not simply forcing your own specific language on another or thinking that the way one is reaching out to you is anything like straightforward.
This week we ask the oracle if it has any advice on recognizing the specific and personal in communication?
To determine the specific nature of something we must ping it against the universal. Here it would be a pair of questions: “what is communication?” and “why are you (or someone to you) communicating?”
An example: are you trying to communicate with your sister because she’s your family or because you are really interested in what she has to say? If it turns out that it’s the former (you are communicating simply because you are family) your relationship is shallow and near-meaningless. If it turns out that it is the latter (that you sincerely want to understand her) you must try earnestly to see the formation of her method of being from as many angles as is possible.
However, there are no guarantees (at least for swift understandings). You cannot force your mind to comprehend; learning about a subject, to an expert degree, is 99.9% of the time a gradual process. The same is true for getting another person to open up to you. Figuring out how best to communicate with an opaque loved one, often depends on the degree to which you persevere.
(It’s worth noting, that it’s not always worth it. When it is worth it, learning another’s language, and the reverse, can be one of the best scenarios of human life… but it can also be a transcendentally frustrating endeavor.)
This week we pulled the Magician. The magician is a reflector and unifier of the highest order. Such a personage has full-width curiosity combined with the will to manifest. The appearance of this card should prompt one to witness, attest and apply the recognition of the fractal nature of all “life” and “matter”.
Our single hexagram this week is #5, Possession in Great Measure. (There were no changes in this weeks hexagram; how the period starts is relatively how it will finish.) All over the I Ching are notes regarding the idea that things can’t be forced, that events and arrivals only happen “in their own time.” This hexagram is kind of like a singular attestation of this idea. “This hexagram shows the clouds in the heavens, giving rain to refresh all that grows and to provide humankind with food and drink. The rain will come in its own time. We cannot make it come; we have to wait for it.” “Waiting is not mere empty hoping. It has the inner certainty of reaching the goal. Such certainty alone gives that light which leads to success. This leads to the perseverance that brings good fortune and bestows power…” “Weakness and impatience can do nothing. Only a strong person can stand up to their fate, for their inner security enables them to endure to the end. This strength shows itself in uncompromising truthfulness [with themself]. It is only when we have the courage to face things exactly as they are, without any sort of self–deception or illusion, that a light will develop out of events, by which the path to success may be recognized. This recognition must be followed by resolute and persevering action. For only the person who goes to meet their fate resolutely is equipped to deal with it adequately. Then they will be able to cross the great water—that is to say, they will be capable of making the necessary decision and of surmounting the danger.”
This week we ask the oracle if it has any advice on recognizing the specific and personal in communication?
To determine the specific nature of something we must ping it against the universal. Here it would be a pair of questions: “what is communication?” and “why are you (or someone to you) communicating?”
An example: are you trying to communicate with your sister because she’s your family or because you are really interested in what she has to say? If it turns out that it’s the former (you are communicating simply because you are family) your relationship is shallow and near-meaningless. If it turns out that it is the latter (that you sincerely want to understand her) you must try earnestly to see the formation of her method of being from as many angles as is possible.
However, there are no guarantees (at least for swift understandings). You cannot force your mind to comprehend; learning about a subject, to an expert degree, is 99.9% of the time a gradual process. The same is true for getting another person to open up to you. Figuring out how best to communicate with an opaque loved one, often depends on the degree to which you persevere.
(It’s worth noting, that it’s not always worth it. When it is worth it, learning another’s language, and the reverse, can be one of the best scenarios of human life… but it can also be a transcendentally frustrating endeavor.)
This week we pulled the Magician. The magician is a reflector and unifier of the highest order. Such a personage has full-width curiosity combined with the will to manifest. The appearance of this card should prompt one to witness, attest and apply the recognition of the fractal nature of all “life” and “matter”.
Our single hexagram this week is #5, Possession in Great Measure. (There were no changes in this weeks hexagram; how the period starts is relatively how it will finish.) All over the I Ching are notes regarding the idea that things can’t be forced, that events and arrivals only happen “in their own time.” This hexagram is kind of like a singular attestation of this idea. “This hexagram shows the clouds in the heavens, giving rain to refresh all that grows and to provide humankind with food and drink. The rain will come in its own time. We cannot make it come; we have to wait for it.” “Waiting is not mere empty hoping. It has the inner certainty of reaching the goal. Such certainty alone gives that light which leads to success. This leads to the perseverance that brings good fortune and bestows power…” “Weakness and impatience can do nothing. Only a strong person can stand up to their fate, for their inner security enables them to endure to the end. This strength shows itself in uncompromising truthfulness [with themself]. It is only when we have the courage to face things exactly as they are, without any sort of self–deception or illusion, that a light will develop out of events, by which the path to success may be recognized. This recognition must be followed by resolute and persevering action. For only the person who goes to meet their fate resolutely is equipped to deal with it adequately. Then they will be able to cross the great water—that is to say, they will be capable of making the necessary decision and of surmounting the danger.”