For insights on leadership, I often turn to the ancient Chinese book Tao Te Ching.
In measuring out rewards, wise rulers act like mother birds. While seeing into every corner, they are unobtrusive. While protecting the people, they do not control them. They are motherly and fatherly, but not domineering. They persuade with words, not weapons. This is their crowning virtue.
Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
What passes for leadership these days tends to not resemble this more introverted, intuitive, and feeling approach at all.
As John Beebe has said, our culture is imbalanced, with a heavy emphasis on extraverted thinking, extraverted sensation, and extraverted intuition.
This brings us to our hexagram host for this final week of Taurus: Hexagram 8: Holding Together.
The unity described in this hexagram, per Wilhelm’s translation, “calls for a central figure around whom other persons may unite…It requires greatness of spirit, consistency, and strength.”
Jennifer Leigh Selig’s book about Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., written from a depth psychology perspective, emphasizes how leaders should engage in “cultural therapy”:
I also hope that others will take up this notion of “cultural therapy,” of looking at our leaders and activists as cultural therapists, and will consider ways they can work with more psychological effectiveness and effectiveness toward cultural healing, transformation, and integration. The keys to the kingdom of psychological transformation needn’t lie only in the inner chamber of the therapy room; they have the power to unlock groups, cultures, even nations, and unleash healing en masse.
Integration by Jennifer Leigh Selig
Sagely Jupiter in Taurus will experience a rebirth moment this week as it conjoins the Sun and begins a new one-year cycle. This comes in the wake of Jupiter’s recent conjunction with Uranus
Therefore this “power to unlock” is there for all of us to tune into.
With Jupiter in Taurus experiencing a rebirth moment, reflect on a personal or professional goal where you can embody the qualities of “greatness of spirit, consistency, and strength” described in Hexagram 8: Holding Together.
How might you become a central figure around whom others can unite, fostering unity and resilience in pursuit of shared objectives?
WHAT I OFFER:
Astrology Consultations
Writing:
Subscribe to the Reading in Depth monthly newsletter
Get Blog Posts by Email
Index to my popular blog posts about personality typology
