Friday, May 21, 2010

guidance from dust

generally, as a rule, I don't engage the religious realm for guidance, but i tend to put dust into a category of magic realism.
May has been particularly challenging for many people i've encountered, alot of latent problems rising to the surface at once. I think someone explained it to me that the electrical energy of the earth was reawakening and needing to escape somehow (hence, thunderstorm season). this is the part where I start to question any ''truths" I might read into this.

then again, someone read my iching for me lately and I'm challenging myself to sit and think with it.
The question I asked before throwing was "what do I need to see"

here's what i've been sitting with.


31. Influence

THE JUDGMENT


Influence. Success.
Perseverance furthers.




THE IMAGE


A lake on the mountain:
The image of influence.
Thus the superior man encourages people to approach him
By his readiness to receive them.

A mountain with a lake on its summit is stimulated by the moisture from
the lake. It has this advantage because its summit does not jut out as a peak
but is sunken. The image counsels that the mind should be kept humble and
free, so that it may remain receptive to good advice. People soon give up
counseling a man who thinks that he knows everything better than anyone
else.

THE LINES

Six in the second place means:
The influence shows itself in the calves of the legs.
Misfortune.
Tarrying brings good fortune.

In movement, the calf of the leg follows the foot; by itself it can neither go
forward nor stand still. Since the movement is not self-governed, it bodes ill.
One should wait quietly until one is impelled to action by a real influence.
Then one remains uninjured.

Nine in the fifth place means:
The influence shows itself in the back of the neck.
No remorse.

The back of the neck is the most rigid part of the body. When the influence
shows itself there, the will remains firm and the influence does not lead to
confusion. Hence remorse does not enter into consideration here. What
takes place in the depths of one's being, in the unconscious mind. It is true
that if we cannot be influenced ourselves, we cannot influence the outside
world.

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