It couldn’t possibly get more earthy and Taurus-y than Hexagram 2: Earth (The Receptive), our hexagram host for this next week.
The opposite of Hexagram 2 is Hexagram 1: The Creative, directly across the zodiacal wheel from Taurus in Scorpio. Both work as partners in creation. Hexagram 2 describes Earth’s role, with its receptivity being a form of strength:
Through the power of the land, Earth is heaven’s partner in bringing the world into being. The sun needs a place to shine, rain a place to fall, and seeds need soil to grow in; flashes of inspiration need space and time to expand and take shape; great ideas need work to be realized.
The power of the land is to provide everything needed for all things to find their shape. A noble one embodies this power in the deep generosity of her character. She certainly need never worry about the limits of her strength.
I Ching: Walking Your Path, Creating Your Future by Hilary Barrett
With the New Moon in Taurus next week, alongside Venus and Jupiter in Taurus, you should start feeling that needed space and time opening up, along with a sense of groundedness and connection to the natural world.
To be receptive is to surrender and become more oriented:
The more we surrender to everything, to every moment as perfect, the more oriented we become. The more we drop our agendas, our trying, our incessant concerns about our lives and those around us, the more we radiate the presence inside us. Then the magic occurs. Our aura, our vibration, animates our environment. It opens up the currents of the quantum field; it catalyses transformation. We become a force of orientation for all life forms. Simply by doing nothing we become a field of transformational forces.
The 64 Ways by Richard Rudd
Transformation by doing nothing! Isn’t that nice to ponder instead of all the emphasis out there on productivity?
When I meet with astrology clients, I try to serve as an orienteer. I emphasize attuning ourselves to the present energies indicated in the chart.
Nothing is broken. There is no to-do list and nothing that needs fixing.
To orient another person correctly, and I mean truly correctly, is to not give them advice. Advice we can get anywhere. To orient someone is to love them. It’s to be with them. It’s to be ourself with them. It’s to let them see our weakness s well as our strength. It’s to be empty like water, and yet to be full. It’s to be intuitive, to trust, to soften, to yield, to flow. People don’t need help. People need love.
The 64 Ways by Richard Rudd
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