Breakthroughs aren’t always a good thing.
Hexagram 43: Breakthrough of the I Ching is the image of a lake that has risen up to heaven, ready to break through in a cloudburst. To avoid this cloudburst, the hexagram warns us that it is best to distribute while accumulating, instead of piling up riches only for oneself.
Richard Rudd says that is the accumulation of noise that prevents insight, which is the positive form of breakthrough.
“We often think of deafness as silence, but it’s not. It’s noise and activity, ‘a life of sound and fury signifying nothing’ (Shakespeare’s Macbeth).
“Deafness is about trying to escape the silence. Insight is about listening to the inner ear, which gradually allows us to adjust to the silence by cutting out the noise wastage from our lives. Epiphany brings us back to the silence once again. Finally we’re ready to embrace it, and wow is it loud!”
The Mars-Uranus opposition I talked about in my last post continues into next week. It is all the more accentuated by Monday’s New Moon in Scorpio, which will interact with the Mars-Uranus opposition.
This volatile energy can indicate an unwelcome cloudburst is on the horizon, due to an accumulation of unshared wealth or talent, or an accumulation of repressed energy. So it’s time to pause and contemplate:
What have you been accumulating that you can start sharing with others?
Where is the “sound and fury” in your life that is preventing the silence that can lead to epiphany?
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References:
The 64 Ways by Richard Rudd
