Staying on your current course will bring you rewards and abundance.
and then this: Tao Te Ching – Verse 12 – He allows things to come and go. His heart is open as the sky.
See the previous reading: Today: “Apply yourself to your chosen path, or engage idle distractions. It’s your choice. You know what the wisdom of the ages tells you.” from the I Ching
See the previous previous reading: Today: “When circumstance brings you together with companions you do not know or would not choose, reach across the unknown to discover how this serves all.” from the I Ching
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Give this a try: Try any kriya that you see here. The first one below reflects my recommendation for a practice that will facilitate the advice given by the I Ching today.
The following entries were selected as recommendations from past readings. If you choose to practice one, do it for 30 days. That is the expected time it takes to modify any particular habits or tendencies that the kriya addresses.
If you practice one for 90 days, it will penetrate your subconscious and help you form new habits.
If you practice it for 120 days it will penetrate your unconscious.
If you practice it for 1000 days, you will master it. It will become a part of your psyche.
For today:
From recent readings:
Meditation: LA101 790419-Faith In Our Self And Our Own Discipline
Meditation: LA544 – 870610 – Know and Experience the Unknown
Meditation: NM0413 – Intuition and the Strength of Excellence
Meditation: LA101 790419-Faith In Our Self And Our Own Discipline
Meditation: LA860-960131-Increase the Flow of Earth Within You
All of the following contribute to the flow of what’s happening in recent readings:
Still relevant:
34 – Thirty-Four. Ta Chuang / Awesome Power
Thunder fills the Heavens with its awful roar, not out of pride, but with integrity; if it did less, it would not be Thunder:
Because of his Great Power, the Superior Person takes pains not to overstep his position, so that he will not seem intimidating or threatening to the Established Order.
Opportunity will arise along this course.
SITUATION ANALYSIS:
The Awesome Power available in this hexagram stems from what the Taoists call your Te, a term not perfectly translated into English.
Roughly, it is your Integrity — not in the Western sense of honor — but more in the psychological definition of a full integration of Who You Are.
This Awesome Power is achieved only by fully embracing both the good and the bad, the strong and the weak, the masculine and the feminine — all polarities within you.
Such self-knowledge spawns a Mastery tempered with the humility necessary to rein in and harness this Awesome Power.
Nine in the second place means:Good fortune ahead if you stay on course. Perseverance brings good fortune.
Potrait of Napoleon by Jacques-Louis David |
| The premise here is that the gates to success are beginning to open. Resistance gives way and we forge ahead. This is the point at which, only too easily, we become the prey of exuberant self-confidence. This is why the oracle says that perseverance (i.e., perseverance in inner equilibrium, without excessive use of power) brings good fortune. |
55 – Fifty-Five. Fêng / Abundance
Thunder and Lightning from the dark heart of the storm:
The Superior Person judges fairly, so that consequences are just.
The leader reaches his peak and doesn’t lament the descent before him.
Be like the noonday sun at its zenith.
This is success.
SITUATION ANALYSIS:
You are in a position of authority in this situation.
Archetypally, you are the New King, returned from your quest to claim your throne.
However, you are enlightened enough to realize that you are merely a part of a cycle, and that you must someday yield your throne to the new kid in town, the younger, faster gunslinger, the young turk, the next returning hero, the next New King.
Fretting about the inevitable descent is senseless.
For now you must play your role to the hilt and use this gift of power to govern your world as best you can.
You are the best person for the job.
That’s why you were chosen.
Give it your personal best.