Category: Today: I Ching

Free yourself from your shackles.  It’s simpler than you may think.  Stop struggling against your self imposed limitations.  Liberation must come from within you.  Do not accept help from others with  dishonest or ulterior motives lest they do you harm.  Persevere and don’t give in to exhaustion.
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In your inexperience, seek wisdom from those who know.  Everyone is a student, just some are more experienced.
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Peace. Everything is in its proper place.
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Even with humble caution, do not fear moving forward.  It is less dangerous than not moving forward.  Knowing the psyche of the community will form a bond and gain support. Your success will be assured by your adherence to your inner truth.  Doing what is right will not fail.
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Through consistency,  flexibility and thoroughness you can go through any obstacle.  Be like water.  Take any shape, flow without resistance.  So doing, everyone will be inspired to flow with you.
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Dissatisfied and unfulfilled with current circumstances, don’t make it worse by prostituting yourself with those who hold sway over the situation for the joy and satisfaction you seek.  Continue reading “Today: Do not make things worse; fix it – from the I Ching”

Having all the creative wherewithal to make a big impact, still, being relatively unknown, you have to hold your patience and wait for the right time to move. Do not accept offers of assistance that merely advance others’ agendas.  Your success will come from your strength within once it is recognized by others.
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When everything is upside down and stagnation and chaos prevail, it is time to be and not do.  There is nothing to do personally but peacefully participate in the divine flow.  That flow is present even in chaos and will emerge as the way everything will eventually right itself.  The situation is too complex to force any single remedy successfully.  Relying on your inner worth with perseverance and being in the flow will allow divine wisdom to take its course.
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When limitations meet you at every turn, be still.  When the obstacles are removed, do not hesitate to move forward, lest opportunity be wasted.  Act, then wait to see the product of your efforts before moving on.
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Improve yourself within and reach out to others in need.  Be generous in your compassion.  Nothing will be denied you in this endeavor.  Your influence will spread, nourishing others far and wide.
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Live richly within, radiating you inner warmth and truth, and simply without.
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Do not dally with the dark elements among the light.  Do not engage with the seductive wiles of those who would bring you under their influence, harmless as they may seem.  Hold to your light.  You don’t need to surrender your power to others who would usurp it.
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Meet with opposition not as an adversary but as a polarity within a whole.  Even as you are checked and hindered, insulted and dishonored, do not be misled into believing it.  Whatever you are doing, see it through.  In the end you will bring unity to the community, fellowship.
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Bring people together and lead them.  You will gain their confidence through your steadfastness and intensified, unswerving devotion to duty.  Proceed with responsive devotion, receptive influence.  Deal with reality as it is, not as you would have it be.
If you realize that you are the receptor, not the transmitter of the stimulus, you will find yourself reaching goals that seemed unattainable under your own steam.  Engage in quiet perseverance. Continue reading “Today: Bring people together and lead them – from the I Ching”

Evil must be openly discredited.  Not through force, but through awareness, leadership and the firmness of resolution.  We must choose with whom we have relationships, personally, and collectively, and cast off those that do not serve.
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Now a time when your inner worth mounts with great force and comes to power.  Use it wisely in accordance with th3e established order and to the benefit of all. Continue reading “Today: Your inner worth mounts with great force – from the I Ching”