Category: Today: I Ching

A time of increase.  You are blessed.  Enjoy good fortune even in the midst of unfortunate events.  Accept it gracefully for the benefit of all
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Accept adversity cheerfully.  It is an opportunity to refine how you relate with yourself and others.  Rise above it.
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Engage your friends in joyful comradery.  Together, you can accomplish great things.  Also be mindful of who is worthy of your friendship.  Reserve friendship for those you would hold close with genuine mutual affection.
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Gradually, and with tenacity, progress can be made in setting things right.  Without much help, progress is initially slow and fought with obstacles and needless opposition.  This serves to instill caution and perseverance.  Adaptability and integrity are the key ingredients to success.  A delicate balance can be achieved which will require vigilance to maintain, lest it fall into decay.  This has happened before as a result of apathy.  Don’t let it happen again.
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Inferior people have seized control.  In this dark time, remain true to your principles.  Conditions will change.  Wait for a time when you able to reverse the flow and exert real influence again.
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What is required is strong leadership and competence.  Do not recruit anyone who is not up to the tasks that lie ahead nor anyone without the proper experience.  You may reward those who have already helped to come this far, but only with payment, and not with the bestowal of any significant role or position of authority.  If you already have, fire them immediately.
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Be creative and confident in all of your endeavors.  Then everything you do will succeed and flourish.  You have the wind at your back. All the powers of the universe are gathering to support you.  Supreme good fortune.
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Signs of renewal are appearing in a time of decay. Light is beginning to dispel the darkness.  Don’t miss this opportunity to engage it, for it will not return again for a long time.  Approach this time with simplicity.  Do not presume a state of wealth before it happens.  The lowly have been robbed by the wealthy, reaching a crisis point.  What we have is simply a change of direction.  Our participation now prevents a total collapse.  The last time this happened, it was ignored, to our peril.  Carpe diem.
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Liberation will come from your release of others from your expectations.  Allow them to be as they are.  Your inner resolve and example is sufficient show people the choices at hand and allow them to give up their adversarial positions and destructive tendencies.  The lightness of your personal release will appear in their awareness.  It will infect them with joy.
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Be positive in your relations with people.  Be friendly and do not intimidate with harshness.  On the other hand, do not seek empty pleasure.  With a correct balance your joy will be infectious and win over even stubborn, intractable people.
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A limit has been reached with clinging to old hopes and fears.  Rather than consuming oneself with despair, an inner light that has persevered causes one to lament such foolishness and turn attention to one’s own clarity of mind that sustain one’s moving forward.  The awakening leads to a real change of heart and revolution.
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Endure, and retain your resilience and flexibility.  Adapt to any adverse condition, while still remaining true to your core.  Then you are assured success. Continue reading “Today: Endure – from the I Ching”

Apply yourself genuinely with devotion and without fanfare.  Work with your colleagues as an important and pivotal part of a coalition.  An unbreakable bond will form providing the means for accomplishing anything as long as you have strength of spirit and hold with reality as it is.
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Your devotion will inspire enthusiasm among all who see it.  Do not be swept along by enthusiasm, rather read the signs of new currents in consciousness in order to be in their flow and lead in the direction they take.  Listen to the needs of your brothers and sisters.  Obstacles will fall away and a time of deliverance will follow.
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Give up what you don’t need. Don’t cling to your faults.  Once you recognize your shortcomings, others will be there to assist.  They will bestow great treasures on you.
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Small gains today, with perseverance, will gather awesome power and lead to great accomplishments.  If you are on the side of righteousness, everything will gather to serve your goals.
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