Yi 5: knowing i have nothing for Veronica now

 

Hilary Barrett:

"Nothing moves or grows, communication doesn't happen, everything is negated and blocked.This means that your very best and strongest efforts come to nothing. You can have a soaring imaginative concept of the creative possibilities here; you can have the will to be true to that concept and carry it through. You're not doing anything wrong; the problem is that these creative possibilities are just not available when things are Blocked. Small concerns dominate. The adaptive response is not to strive constantly to rise to a higher level, but to focus your attention on the small details – the immediate, uninspiring reality."

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Yi 4: Veronica 1: this repository 1

 

Hilary Barrett:

"Influence is what moves people, and how people are open and available to be moved – by emotion or inspiration, physical responses or visiting spirits. All these things touch, stir and attract us, drawing us into relationship. The Chinese character for 'influence' shows a mouth and a weapon: the influence goes deep, and makes us vulnerable."

Hilary Barrett:

"People create harmony with one another where they are of like mind and find common cause. They come out from the walls of their villages to forge alliances in the wild country – that is, they seek out common ground where they can meet, beyond the familiar boundaries that usually define the limits of 'people like us'. This means radically expanding the whole idea of who 'we' are. Such fellowship is usually created between people or between apparently unrelated traditions and ways of knowing. There is harmony when these are brought together in inner conversation to create strong alliances.

There is strength and energy in alliance. People in harmony can commit themselves further, take greater risks – they can cross the river and enter new territories. Once there is agreement, it's worthwhile to follow the vision tenaciously, with the constancy of a noble one."

Hilary Barrett:

"The ancient Chinese character for Clarity shows a flying bird, and a net to capture it. Birds are messengers; this one represents flashes of insight, the way things can light up and shine out clearly. We weave a net of concepts to grasp the message and hold its meaning in awareness. This is not passive seeing, but a meeting of outer and inner light.

Seeing the truth and holding to it with constancy bears fruit. Then the moment of insight can become lasting awareness, so that we enter into creative communication with the signs and messages around us, and truly see other people."

Yi 3: how am i most a Misfit

square peg in a world of round holes.

Oracle

'Traveller, creating small success.

Travelling, constancy brings good fortune.'

Hilary Barrett:

"The traveler is on a journey of his own, just passing through this place and staying for a while. To be the traveler means you are not at home here – you know you don't belong. Also, you have a strong personal direction: wherever you find yourself for now, you know it does not define you. 

Since you are only passing through, your creative involvement is limited. You can have the small success of being well received if you fit in responsively, rather than dancing your own dance regardless of where you are. You cannot expect to change your surroundings – and nor should your surroundings change you: it is good to be constant to your own way as you travel. As Hai discovered, this can be a difficult balance to keep: to be true to yourself and still fit in o a place that is not your own."

Other titles: The Wanderer, The Symbol of the Traveler, The Exile, Sojourning, The Stranger, The Traveling Stranger, The Outsider, The Alien, The Gnostic, The Tarot Fool, Wandering, Uncommitted, On Your Own, "Can refer to being out of one's element." -- D.F. Hook

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