Year ago, before I finally accepted the fact that I am not a gardener, I tried growing tomatoes. Year after year most of them would never ripen and would end up just soiling on the vines.
I never figured out the root cause. One theory is the walnut tree inhibited the tomato plants, but who knows.
Hexagram 18: Work on What Has Been Spoiled from the I Ching is our hexagram host for this next stretch of Libra season.
Richard Wilhelm’s translation of Hexagram 18 says that “gentle indifference” (I love that phrase) and “rigid inertia” have caused stagnation. Both of those set in each time I gazed upon yet another failed tomato harvest and gave up.
This hexagram makes it seem like there has been some slacking off since the end of Virgo season, which is associated with the harvest.
The remedy: “Decisiveness and energy must take the place of the inertia and indifference that have led to decay, in order that the ending may be followed by a new beginning.” Today’s energetic Aries full harvest Moon arrived just in time!
Mercury is still there in Virgo until October 6, to help us dig into the root cause of any decay going unaddressed around us: “We must first know the causes of corruption before we can do away with them; hence it is necessary to be cautious during the time before the start…Success depends on proper deliberation.”
Enjoy the Aries full Moon this weekend and take a look at her if you can. Maybe she will inspire you to break through gentle indifference.
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References:
I Ching or Book of Changes translated by Richard Wilhelm
*The 64 hexagrams of the I Ching, an ancient Chinese text, are arranged along the ecliptic (the celestial equator) in Human Design. In astrology there are 12 zodiac signs along the ecliptic, so there are 5.3 hexagrams per zodiac sign. I’m contemplating these hexagrams as a way to engage with astrology, the I Ching, and Jungian psychology.
