Harinam and Healing Heart Center
Healer, Teacher, Yogi
When the established order has become unsustainable and the abuse of power is oppressive and obvious to those around you, then you may act in unison to challenge that order and change it. You cannot do it alone. Such action requires moral authority, inner strength and allies in influential positions. Continue reading “Today: Finding a way forward – from the I Ching”
You have the opportunity to provide the sustenance needed by others. Position yourself to nourish the truly needy and worthy. Be acutely aware of what goes in and comes out of your own mouth. Consume only what sustains you. Be aware of the impact of your words. Do not try to influence too much. In your discourse, address only what is real and present and consistent with your own conduct.
You are blessed with grace. You are adorned and made beautiful by it. Hold your brilliance with clarity within, quiet without. It inspires reverence and and respect in those who see you as you. You will shape your environment by means of your virtue rather than your will. Your subtle influence will be felt far and wide and you will be rewarded by the transformation it produces.
A yellow colored fire is delivering light and heat to the situation at hand. This radiance will cause such an alchemical transformation of circumstances that the changes will seem magical, miraculous.
Yet they are only shifts of perspective and attitude that bring clarity. Continue reading “Today: Acquiring intuition from the fire within – from the I Ching”
Firmness and strength within your heart brings joy and happiness, while gentleness reveals itself in social intercourse. Your joy will find its way into the hearts of others.
Not striving to shop around for the source of your happiness, only recognize that picking and choosing is the source of suffering. Acquiescing to this truth will remove all inner conflict and allow innate joy to flow from your heart as kindness. This will serve as gentle inspiration for others to do the same. It is infectious.
The thunderous shock, causing fear and trembling, should be met with a reverence of spirit and an introspection into your own heart. You must question whether your heart is in alignment with the cosmos with a profound inner seriousness from which all terrors glance off harmlessly, or is subject to a profound reckoning for holding childish views of hatred, division, and separation. Continue reading “Today: Thunderous shock (repentance) – from the I Ching”
The current situation is coming to completion. It will eventually be finished and then followed by a new beginning. Use caution not to rush the process by resorting to quick fixes to everything that is wrong. Rushing into solutions can lead to worse consequences. While the prospects for a favorable outcome seem distant, waiting for all of it to play out is the best option. Continue reading “Today: Patience before completion – from the I Ching”
Liberation in this context implies a liberation of the mind through clarity. You can free yourself of the entrapments and tensions created by circumstances surrounding you by releasing others from your expectations and releasing all resentment toward them. Forgive them. Then break from them in your mind, releasing all entanglements. Continue reading “Today: Liberation – from the I Ching”
Work with reality as it is. Be receptive. Do not call too much attention to yourself. Express yourself genuinely from within. Then you will become a key figure that holds people together in unity.
You are returning to the beginning of a new cycle. A period of dormancy is moving toward a rebirth. With what feels familiar, it is useful to recognize any past mistakes and correct them. It is an auspicious time to come together in unity and merge into a new whole.
External oppression weighs down heavily. Attempts to counter it lead to obstruction. Words have no effect. Only the vastness of one’s internal nature can prevail through gentle persuasion over time.
Move boldly forward without hesitation. Your music will strike a chord in people’s hearts. Without doubt and with sincerity gather your friends near. Your confidence in them will win their enthusiastic co-operation and attain success. You will start something that will endure for which you will only need to lend your responsive devotion and your receptive influence. That movement will have a life of its own.
Passing trials should be seen in the light of eternal truths. Don’t look for a quick fix. You will pay dearly in the end for that. Instead, embrace what promises to sustain you in the long term. Develop your daily practice independently of the traumas and dramas that are challenging you in this moment. Connect with what you know to be true in your heart of hearts. Strengthen your relationship with that. It will see you through to the end of the wild ride.
Keep still in quiet retreat. Cease all movement in the spine and hold your awareness in silence. Empty your mind of past and future, and dwell totally in the moment at hand. Continue reading “Today: Keep still in quiet retreat before taking action – from the I Ching”
Remember who you are and the awesome power within you. Do not show it externally. The less that power is applied outwardly, the greater its effect. Use it to remove resistances and obstructions. Avoid doing anything that is not in harmony with the established order. Greatness is manifest in your presence. Joy and forbearance bring high and low nearer together. Success is certain. Work with determination and perseverance to make full use of the propitiousness of the time.
Yesterday marked a return of the light and its positive flow. Today marks a victory that will ensure its sustenance and growth. Continue reading “Today: Election Day – from the I Ching”