Keep still in your silence. Communicate deliberately and choose your words carefully and sparingly. You will have a strong impact on your friends and family.
Category: Today: I Ching
Today: Let justice have its due; be uniquely yourself – from the I Ching
Those who are committing atrocities will be called to justice. Their treachery and treason won’t go away on their own, but they will be judged by a higher power for their actions. There is nothing to do but be uniquely yourself and let justice have its due. Separate yourself from the gang of traitors. Don’t go along with them nor be influenced by them. Overcome your fear and follow your heart.
Today: Hold your allies close & regroup – from the I Ching
Take care of each other. Retreat from the forces that would cause you harm. Don’t engage them. Regroup among your friends.
Today: Be kind and charitable – from the I Ching
Be kind and charitable. Give freely to those who do not know the blessings that you know. Give in spite of external oppression. A breakthrough will ensue that is shared by giver and receiver. The initial act will set in motion a movement that propagates and benefits all.
Today: Fellowship and friendship, again – from the I Ching
Fellowship and friendship has turned into division and mistrust. Use whatever occasion will serve to gather together in common cause. Start with the family.
Today: Focus on the family, be still – from the I Ching
Focus on the family in your actions and words. Beware of their impact. Always remember the love that you hold for the family and they will trust you. Find silence within and contemplate your closest relations and the immediate situation. That will resonate in its own way in its own time far beyond that narrow scope.
Today: Overcome fantasy with discipline – from the I Ching
Fill in the gaps in your experience through your discipline. Rather than entangling yourself with empty imaginings, give yourself the opportunity to have a real experience. Yesterday’s reading gave an example of keeping it real. Turn your devotion to a discipline of yoga and meditation. Don’t read too much into what’s happening. Simply experience it inside through your raw perception. Increasing your awareness in this way, you will begin to align yourself with the reality of what is going on and allow you to participate in the cosmic dance.
Today: The key to shining brightly is through the family – from the I Ching
On the Winter Solstice
All influence must start from within and work outwardly. Yesterday it was noted that your should maintain your light in a very dark time. How best to do that? Your personal radiance, your greatest asset, comes from within, from your self. Working closely with your inner circle (family), your radiance propogates through its identity into the world at large. Your words and actions thus become powerful. Continue reading “Today: The key to shining brightly is through the family – from the I Ching”
Today: Maintain your light in a very dark time – from the I Ching
Maintain your inner light in a very dark time. Do not let your resoluteness be shaken. Do not distinguish yourself with bold behavior. Knowing the source of the darkness, dissociate from it. Don’t struggle with it. Resist, but don’t try to defeat it directly. The dark power is at its zenith and will, in time, depart, as noted yesterday. Continue reading “Today: Maintain your light in a very dark time – from the I Ching”
Today: The stage is set for a breakthrough – from the I Ching
Resoluteness sets the stage for a breakthrough. Just as yesterday the reading stated that things must take their course, the overall movement is toward the waning of influence of inferior people. When we worry about a situation where self-serving people have seized power, the source of that concern tends to be an uncertainty about the resoluteness that will be required to break the stranglehold. There are rules for that to happen. Continue reading “Today: The stage is set for a breakthrough – from the I Ching”
Today: Gradual development; things must take their course – from the I Ching
Proper development in the established course is important. There is no need to rush it or provoke an outcome. Only perservere.
The text reads:
“…the essential factor is a correct way of development through cultivation of one’s own personality. No influence such as that exerted by agitators has a lasting effect.
Within the personality too, development must follow the same course if lasting results are to be achieved. Gentleness that is adaptable, but at the same time penetrating, is the outer form that should proceed from inner calm.
The very gradualness of the development makes it necessary to have perseverance, for perseverance alone prevents slow progress from dwindling to nothing.”
Today: Move on – from the I Ching
When you have done what you can, move on. When you find yourself in new and strange situations, be cautious and reserved. Focus on what is close around you. Seek only good places to be and people to associate with. Then you can go your way unmolested and enjoy good fortune.
Today: At odds, uniquely yourself – from the I Ching
You can be at odds with those around you. They hold positions just as you do. Rather than proceeding forcefully, which would only widen the gap, an approach to find common ground would be useful and can benefit mutually in small matters. Continue reading “Today: At odds, uniquely yourself – from the I Ching”
Today: Recruiting allies – from the I Ching
One cannot successfully seek justice alone. It requires a collective, organized effort by people aligned in their needs and goals in order to oppose oppression, injustice and any threat to their wellbeing. Recruiting allies in such an endeavor is like building an army. Continue reading “Today: Recruiting allies – from the I Ching”
Today: Enduring union – from the I Ching
Enduring union is characterized by a constant movement and renewal that is not worn down by hindrances, but rather relies on the immutable laws of nature upon which the union is based. Marriage is such a union, with vows that last to the death. The United States is such a union, based on unalienable rights. Continue reading “Today: Enduring union – from the I Ching”
Today: Let it happen – from the I Ching
Let it happen. Yesterday’s reading indicated that a breakthrough is near. It has not happened yet. Until then, oppressive powers are on the march and are nearing their zenith. Misfortune has reached its peak. Once complete the occupants of seats of power will begin to break the structures of power and themselves. It cannot be avoided. Let it happen. It is wise to submit and avoid action. Continue reading “Today: Let it happen – from the I Ching”