Turn to the spirit within you for guidance on what to do with the body you inhabit. Ask that spirit that you are to show you the best way to eat, exercise and heal any issues not in alignment with health and healing, with strength and fortitude, with the pursuits of love, compassion and kindness. Begin within the self that which you wish to see outside of yourself in the world around you and especially in those closest to you. Start with a positive attitude and the certainty that you matter, that you are fully capable of achieving all the goals your spirit set forth for you once a long time ago and still strives for, for your spirit is really leading the show. Let your spirit be your guide and all will resolve.
Find a light in every day, a spark by which to find your way, to enable you to see clearly, hear succinctly, and know without a doubt that you and your journey through life matter and have value. You have something within you that daily seeks higher ground, that wants this day to be better than yesterday, that always seeks the light of love and positivity, that accepts the challenges that await you without fear or regret. Each new day is a day filled with possibilities, and there is always a part of you yearning for new experiences and new potential. Welcome to a new day of your most amazing journey through life!
It’s a new day with new opportunities, new energy, new possibilities. Shift out of the old and into the new with intent, fully aware that it is time for change. It is time to take a leap, to send the self in a new, more positive direction. Take responsibility for the self, within and without. For indeed, only you are responsible for you, for how you think and act, and how you treat others. Make an assessment of the self and decide the best course of action. For even as you see that the world should change so do you know you should too. It’s time to make things better. Even just a small shift in attitude will begin the journey of change that you so need and desire. Step one: begin!
When change comes rushing at you without forewarning, go inward and ask the self how you got in alignment with such change. How did you meet it? How did you prepare for it? For the truth is, no event is unplanned, for everything is always a possibility. What you decide to do next is also a possibility, another choice. Who has not had to make hard choices in life? Sometimes a path is chosen, other times a path is thrown down in front of you, but always you have a choice, even if it is only what attitude to take. Let your heart be the deciding factor, for your heart knows more than you do.
The gushing river, hammered with thunderous rain, topples the restraining power of its dikes, flooding the lands it borders. We gasp at the breakthrough of this violent release.
As the I Ching points out, in the hexagram of Breakthrough (#43), this release is the consequence of a long period of accumulated tension, such as in that of a cloudburst that results from an extended accumulation of condensation in a cloud that can no longer bear the weight of the water it holds.
That tension was released, on the one side, by those who felt it their patriotic duty to storm the Capital. From the other side, the release took the form of vindication: yes, they had indeed been living under the tyranny of a despot. Those tense energies have climaxed simultaneously, as we approach the end of one era and the dawn of a new. We are now in the time of Segue.
As Bob Monroe wrote in his book, Far Journeys:
“…’segue‘ is defined as a proper interlude of musical melodies and harmonies that moves from the conclusion of one composition to the introduction of another. ‘Proper’ infers a transition that smoothly loses that previous theme or mood and sets the stage for what is to come.” (p. 63)
How now will we compose our segue?
The I Ching states that the facts must be announced truthfully. There is danger, but it does not favor one to take up arms. Nonetheless, the I Ching states: “Even if only one inferior man is occupying a ruling position in a city, he is able to oppress superior men.”
That kind of power must be checked.
On an individual level we are guided to address any passion still lurking in the heart that would obscure reason. Passion and reason cannot coexist, therefore the true fight is to unseat the passion so that good might prevail. If we allow ourselves to indulge in the fires of rage, from any side, we risk devolving a peaceful segue into total conflagration.
There is no compromise with evil; it must be openly discredited. This includes an objective assessment of our own passions and shortcomings. Nonetheless, it is not wise to fight evil with proactive aggression, as this would only enflame its impulse and likely infect the good with evil, as it regresses into rageful reaction.
Perhaps the best segue the I Ching can offer, from the time of Breakthrough, is to shift the composition to one of making energetic progress in the good. The flames of evil require the kindling of negativity to continue to burn. A positive, loving attitude that embraces the opportunity for energetic progress in the good can unify a nation, and a world, that the common good may finally prevail.
