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Oracle Consultation
This card relates to oracles and the principle of synchronicity and indicates a propitious time to consult oracles. Since you are consulting an oracle, this shows you to be presently in tune with the Tao. An oracle consultation is a conscious synchronicity, a microcosmic mirror of your macrocosmic orientation toward the Tao. Depending on the…
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Relating to Shock
Shock (which can be a surprisingly good thing) relates to the I Ching hexagram #51 entitled “Shock.” Shock was recognized by the ancient Chinese as such a fundamental agent that it is also one of the eight trigrams out of which all hexagrams are created. Shock is what often stirs up transformation, evolution, metamorphosis, both…
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Cooperative Interdependence
Cooperation and interdependence are emphasized here. American culture tends to emphasize rugged individualism in a way that is often absurd. For example, the “Army of One” ad campaign for the U.S. Army or the Marlboro man riding alone through the prairie with only his horse and his trusty cigarettes for companionship. But we are social…
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Working on Self-Importance
As a narcissistic personality type, I need to constantly work on my self-importance. Naturally, I would prefer to focus on self-importance by using myself as an example, putting myself center stage as one of the most important people to ever address this topic. Baby Boomers are known to be one of the most talented, but…
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Working on Self-Importance
As a narcissistic personality type, I need to constantly work on my self-importance. Naturally, I would prefer to focus on self-importance by using myself as an example, putting myself center stage as one of the most important people to ever address this topic. Baby Boomers are known to be one of the most talented, but…
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Body Mountain
Don’t judge yourself by conditioned body-image notions. You are much more than your corporeal body image, and your corporeal body is much more than its topographical reflection. That’s the short version, if you have time for a bit more: Body Mountain There are many ways in which the body can be our mountain. Like climbing…
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Reaching for the Forbidden Fruit
In the Garden of Eden story, forbidden fruit is a metaphor for the awareness that would take us out of the state of infantile ignorance and create an empowered awareness that threatens forces that feel entitled to control us. In Genesis 3:5, the serpent tells Eve, “For God knows that in the day you eat…
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Forbidden Fruit
In the Garden of Eden story, forbidden fruit is a metaphor for the awareness that would take us out of the state of infantile ignorance and create an empowered awareness that threatens forces that feel entitled to control us. In Genesis 3:5, the serpent tells Eve, “For God knows that in the day you eat…
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The Prison of Distorted Self-Image
Human beings are prone to distorted self-images. Nervously we study ourselves in the carnival fun house mirrors of self-appraisal. Some mirrors make us look larger and return a grandiose and inflated image, while others make us look small and twisted. Often we judge ourselves based on body image. But we are much more than our…
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Distorted Self-Image
Human beings are prone to distorted self-images. Nervously we study ourselves in the carnival fun house mirrors of self-appraisal. Some mirrors make us look larger and return a grandiose and inflated image, while others make us look small and twisted. Often we judge ourselves based on body image. But we are much more than our…