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“In every cry of every man, In every infant’s cry of fear, In every voice, in every ban, The mind forged manacles I hear…” — William Blake, Songs of Innocence INFANT SORROW My mother groaned! my father wept. Into the dangerous world I leapt: Helpless, naked, piping loud: Like a fiend hid in a cloud.…

Grounding yourself by finding your center. According to the I Ching, you have only one obligation in life — to get your relationship to yourself right. Do that and your relations to sex, time, money, power, food, body, career, society, the cosmos, etc. will all be as good as outer conditions allow. Omit, distort or…

The central idea of the I Ching is that we are always cycling through classic patterns of energy and change. Oracle consultations, especially with the I Ching, can be a way of seeing such underlying patterns of energy and change. Another way is self-inquiry — stripping away the details and asking yourself what essential pattern…

Bring your masculine and feminine sides together to find your vision. From a neurological point of view, the highest creativity occurs when the right and left hemispheres are working together. Some people confuse androgyny (an intrapsychic orientation) with bisexuality (an interpersonal orientation) or hermaphrodism (an anatomical/genital anomaly). Hermaphrodism, as June Singer uses the term, means…

See the patterns of your world. This card draws your attention to the possibility of the outer world paralleling the inner world of psyche in ways that cannot be explained in terms of cause and effect. Jung called such acausal connections “synchronicities.” In the past these parallelisms were often called “portents” or “omens,” and in…

Access your emotionally neutral, higher thinking, cosmic vision. Ironically, what farseeing vision often reveals are the obvious truths that are right in front of our faces, but which are nevertheless hard to recognize. The personal view can trap us in the forever chaos of he said/she said. An impersonal or cosmic view requires fiercely looking…

There is an old Venetian saying,”Where are you rushing to, young man? You are already there.” We live in a world where hectic speediness going nowhere often takes the place of the gradual development of the soul and soulmate relations. If you are suffering from the modern time sickness, life in a time ghetto where…

Loneliness can be circumstantial, but it can also be a mind set, a false belief that we are alone in our minds/psyches. This is an artificial capsule we create around ourselves, when actually, like the boy in the photo, we are never alone. Often it is better to endure loneliness than to be part of…

You need to be the alchemist of your own inner cauldron. You know the medicine you need better than anyone — find it, make it, use it and, when appropriate, don’t forget to offer some medicine to others as well.

Get out there and see what is happening in the world. Sometimes the conscious mutant will tend to withdraw from the blooming, buzzing madness of collective energy. It is also easy to fall into an attitude of sarcastic disdain towards the often grotesque and toxic goings on. But we need to know what is happening…