Here she comes
Gentle descent
Leaves fall
Gentle descent
Leaves fall
Year: WOOD GOAT 4713
The Wood Goat, a little girl kid, lends a soft grounded context for us this year; Still very new, maturing quickly and playfully, sincere and disciplined. Herd up, slough off what no longer serves your appetite, compost and go fresh.
Lunar Month: WOOD ROOSTER
"Wood Roosters are idealistic, quarrelsome and insightful. For what seems to them to be no reason, family and sometimes friends abandon them. Their outspoken quality is both a blessing (amusing) and a curse (off-putting). Their fortune is uneven. They often receive the ‘debts of the ancestors’, family debts and congenital illnesses. Though they are likely to suffer from chronic minor illnesses or handicaps, they are long lived." LM Notes
Qi Node: 15 White Dew
In the morning white dew is the harbinger of change. The clouds are high in the sky. The growing west wind is cool. Dew is fresh yin qi - a fragile, glimpse of snow. The growing yin almost goes unnoticed. As the last of the summer qi subsides, a cool west wind (qi) appears and the season of autumn begins and develops. Geese migrate south and fall harvest continues in earnest.
White Dew is a time of clarity and stillness. During this period the environment grows ever more yuin and is characterized by a cool, dry wind (metal element). During this qi node the environmental qi is best at 5pm. Neigong should be done indoors. Do not eat at all after 7pm.
In the imagination of the poets and hermits of China it is a time of year when white nymphs are offering inspiration. Unlike their superiors, the Jade Lads and Ladies, these nymphs inhabit the sea and forest, not the Celestial realms. White dew, a rare or first form of frost of the year, is the signal of their presence. They show us white dew to remind us to prepare for the arrival of the Celestials (yin)." LM The Way of the Three Treasures
"The Zhouyi says that a ruler must have Guan, a bird's eye view-contemplative composure, even if the situation is not supportive. Guan describes the proper and improper ways of maintaining tradition through authentic observance, personal deportment and meditation.
Careful observance of one's relationship to the environment (astrogeomancy) provides the education needed to sustain order, indeed, life itself. Dynamic observation of this sort is a full time job, as subtle adjustments to protocol must be made constantly." LM Changing: Zhouyi
TUESDAY September 15, Yang Wood Horse 3
Hexagram : 51 Zhen: Thunder
Lunar Lodge : The House
Solar Indicator : Harvest
"Good fortune here has everything to do with staying calm...whether you are the rebel leader or the deposed ruler, there is good reason to proceed with standard protocol, good manners and determination." LM Changing: Zhouyi
"Let new resources and assistants come froward by standing back." LM Notes: Harvest Relax expectations, the momentum is auspicious; participate, engage, learn and celebrate.
I am because we are. May we, together, practice honest self-reflection and open to our collective potential.
Yin Descends
"White Dew qi node shows the shifting relationship between collapsing yang and ascendant yin. When yin 'descends' it is actually taking charge - yin style.In the morning white dew is the harbinger of change. The clouds are high in the sky. The growing west wind is cool. Dew is fresh yin qi - a fragile, glimpse of snow. The growing yin almost goes unnoticed. As the last of the summer qi subsides, a cool west wind (qi) appears and the season of autumn begins and develops. Geese migrate south and fall harvest continues in earnest.
White Dew is a time of clarity and stillness. During this period the environment grows ever more yuin and is characterized by a cool, dry wind (metal element). During this qi node the environmental qi is best at 5pm. Neigong should be done indoors. Do not eat at all after 7pm.
In the imagination of the poets and hermits of China it is a time of year when white nymphs are offering inspiration. Unlike their superiors, the Jade Lads and Ladies, these nymphs inhabit the sea and forest, not the Celestial realms. White dew, a rare or first form of frost of the year, is the signal of their presence. They show us white dew to remind us to prepare for the arrival of the Celestials (yin)." LM The Way of the Three Treasures
Lunar Hexagram 20 Guan: Obervance
Careful observance of one's relationship to the environment (astrogeomancy) provides the education needed to sustain order, indeed, life itself. Dynamic observation of this sort is a full time job, as subtle adjustments to protocol must be made constantly." LM Changing: Zhouyi
TUESDAY September 15, Yang Wood Horse 3
Hexagram : 51 Zhen: Thunder
Lunar Lodge : The House
Solar Indicator : Harvest
"Good fortune here has everything to do with staying calm...whether you are the rebel leader or the deposed ruler, there is good reason to proceed with standard protocol, good manners and determination." LM Changing: Zhouyi
"Let new resources and assistants come froward by standing back." LM Notes: Harvest Relax expectations, the momentum is auspicious; participate, engage, learn and celebrate.
WEDNESDAY September 16, Yin Wood Goat 4
Hexagram : Consult the Oracle
Lunar Lodge : The Wall
Solar Indicator : Open
The new situation that you find yourself in can blossom today, sink in, settle with ease. Consult the oracle for more specific advice, make fengshui adjustments and generally go with the flow. It is inauspicious to procrastinate. "An open heart gives the option to acquire great wisdom." LM Notes: Open Spend time in the new, emerging communities, redecorate, re-organize your frame of mind to include the growing potential.
THURSDAY September 17, Yang Fire Monkey 5
Hexagram : 42 Yi: Increase
Lunar Lodge : The Stride
Solar Indicator : Shut
Today's mixed auspices both support a fluidity and ease of tasks, shoring up, retreat from any fast-track and engaging with activities of planning and preparation for the winter, soon on the horizon. Meditation, qigong and medical treatments, repairing and remodeling are all auspicious today. Routine business, not speculation. The Monkey may think that too responsible and rebel while Shut accomplishes nothing because sometimes a reboot is required, a new round through the cycle and that needs to start somewhere, first by turning off. Go about your day, it'll unfold.
FRIDAY September 18, Yin Fire Rooster 6
Hexagram : 3 Zhun: Sprouting
Lunar Lodge : The Mound
Solar Indicator : Design
Today offers a pause on individual process and opens where the collaboration is. It points to light rain in the autumn. Education and compliance, passing along knowledge between generations and building families are all auspicious. "Individual efforts, no matter how vigorous, do not amount to much. In this situation inexperience demands education before successful alliances are made. Power demands education before successful alliances are made. Power is found in following the customs that unite older and younger generations (even the living and the dead)." LM Changing: Zhouyi
Lunar Hexagram 58 Dui: Pleasuring
"Generally auspicious and associated with a light-handed approach to things. It is not how you find pleasure, but how you express it that will determine the longevity of your happiness."
LM Changing: Zhouyi
SATURDAY September 19, Yang Earth Dog 7
Hexagram : 27 Yi: Jaws
Lunar Lodge : The Stomach
Solar Indicator : Divide
"On this day progress is envisioned but we learn that pausing and even loss may be a part of the process. Though moving forward is immanent, there is a shedding of skin on this day that puts a pause in the forward progress." LM Notes: Divide Be generous and engage in routine work, encourage emerging trends of wisdom, ask for what you are due and release the rest. Do not be confrontational, just shed the inessentials, cut your hair and take a load to the thrift store; share.
SUNDAY September 20, Yin Earth Boar 8
Hexagram : 24 Fu: Return
Lunar Lodge : The Watchers
Solar Indicator : Full
"This is an optimum day for education, preparation, polishing, gathering resources and firming up places...Practice and disciplined cultivation bring confidence." LM Notes: Full "It is auspicious to stay home (familiar people/places), study, enter retreat, initiate austerities and make offerings to the dead. It is wise to postpone everything proactive (marriage, building, funerals, burials). Medical treatments on this day will complicate illness..." LM Notes: The Watchers Nothing new, just back to the drawing board, where we always return, part of the cycle of things.
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In resilient relations,
Jamie Shulander
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