Month: February 2026

Desist in your pursuit until or unless you have sufficient guidance to see it through or sufficient experience to bring it to completion.

See Tao Te Ching – Verse 34 – The great Tao flows everywhere

See Today: “What is a habit? When the mind is tuned after an activity, it is known as a habit.” – Yogi Bhajan

See the previous reading: Today: “Taking action prematurely with important matters will cause problems and mire you in indecision as to how to proceed.  Develop discipline.” from the I Ching

See the previous previous reading:  Today: “Remain peaceful.  Do not respond in kind to aggression.  Allow the bad actors to fall on their face.” from the I Ching

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Meditation: LA544 – 870610 – Know and Experience the Unknown

 

Meditation: LA051-780907 – Tune the Vagus Nerve to Cosmic Consciousness

Meditation: Magic Mantra-19760426

Meditation: M074 – 920423 – Balance the Pineal and Pituitary

3 – Three.  Chun / Difficulty at the Beginning

Thunder from the Deep:
The Superior Person carefully weaves order out of confusion.

Supreme Success if you keep to your course.
Carefully consider the first move.
Seek help.

SITUATION ANALYSIS:

New ventures always pack along their inherent chaos.
Though this is an annoyance at best, and can even imperil or downright doom an endeavor, it is also the friction needed to polish your project to jewel brilliance.
Learn from these early obstacles.

Six in the third place means: A hunter who pursues his prey without a guide will lose his way in the deeps of the forest. The Superior Person knows his limitations and gives up the chase. To advance brings regret. Whoever hunts deer without the forester Only loses his way in the forest. The superior man understands the signs of the time And prefers to desist. To go on brings humiliation.

If a man tries to hunt in a strange forest and has no guide, he loses his way. When he finds himself in difficulties he must not try to steal out of them unthinkingly and without guidance. Fate cannot be duped; premature effort, without the necessary guidance, ends in failure and disgrace. Therefore the superior man, discerning the seeds of coming events, prefers to renounce a wish rather than to provoke failure and humiliation by trying to force its fulfillment.

31 – Thirty-One. Hsien / Attraction

The joyous Lake is cradled by the tranquil Mountain:
The Superior Person takes great satisfaction in encouraging others along their journey.
He draws them to him with his welcoming nature and genuine interest.

Supreme success.
This course leads to marriage.

SITUATION ANALYSIS:

There is no greater natural law in the Cosmos than Attraction.
From the magnetic pull of an atom’s nucleus to the centripetal force that spirals a galaxy, the face of the universe is shaped by Attraction.
On a human scale, it is Attraction that fuels procreation and furthers our species.
Yet it is also Attraction that spawns greed and covetousness, threatening our extinction.
Attraction is the underlying force of the situation in question.
You are refined or debased by the objects of your desire.
What gravitational pull are you now under?
Around what sphere of influence do you circle?
Can you use your own ability to attract?

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Taking action prematurely with important matters will cause problems and mire you in indecision as to how to proceed.  Develop discipline.

See Tao Te Ching – Verse 33 – Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom.

See Today: “You belong to only one thing, and that is Truth; and you have got to be delivered to only one thing, and that is Truth.” Yogi Bhajan

See the previous reading:  Today: “Remain peaceful.  Do not respond in kind to aggression.  Allow the bad actors to fall on their face.” from the I Ching

See the previous previous reading: Today: “Keep your attention focused on your tasks at hand rather than your expectations for an outcome.  If you remain rooted in the flow of events, all will go well.” from the I Ching

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Meditation: Listening to Angelic Whispers – from the Mind

Meditation: The Alchemist

 

Meditation: LA051-780907 – Tune the Vagus Nerve to Cosmic Consciousness

Meditation: Magic Mantra-19760426

Meditation: M074 – 920423 – Balance the Pineal and Pituitary

5 – Five.  Hsü / Calculated Waiting

Deep Waters in the Heavens:
Thunderclouds approaching from the West, but no rain yet.
The Superior Person nourishes himself and remains of good cheer to condition himself for the moment of truth.

Great Success if you sincerely keep to your course.
You may cross to the far shore.

SITUATION ANALYSIS:

You must now endure this Dangling — either a carrot before your nose, or a sword above your head.
This strange mix of apprehension and anticipation is a Purgatory.
There is nothing more you can do to affect the outcome.
You must now submit to the Fates.

Nine in the third place means:

Anxiety prods you to premature action.
Wading into the river, you become mired in the bed of mud.
Not only does the enemy realize you detect them, but they see your vulnerability as an opportunity to strike.

Waiting in the mud
Brings about the arrival of the enemy.

Mekong delta bank

Mud is no place for waiting, since it is already being washed by the water of the stream. Instead of having gathered strength to cross the stream at one try, one has made a premature start that has got him no farther than the muddy bank. Such an unfavorable position invites enemies from without, who naturally take advantage of it. Caution and a sense of the seriousness of the situation are all that can keep one from injury.

60 – Sixty.  Chieh / Limitations

Waters difficult to keep within the Lake’s banks:
The Superior Person examines the nature of virtue and makes himself a standard that can be followed.

Self-discipline brings success; but restraints too binding bring self-defeat.

SITUATION ANALYSIS:

Cultivating the proper disciplines and the proper degree of discipline are the concerns of this hexagram.
By limiting options, you may give more attention to priorities.
One who is all over the map is no less lost than one without a map.
Avoid asceticism, however.
Deprivation is not wise discipline.
The key here is regulation, not restriction.

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