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Fox-Girl Legends

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 The composite oracle poster joining I Ching 64 and Tarot Major Arcana 17, prompted a search for fox-girl figures. Conductive inference moves through information, finding a path as it goes, more like crossing a stream with two stones, rather than building a bridge. It is a way but not a method. My juxtaposition  suggested there could be a hybrid joining the two beings, an intuition confirmed by a search, identifying an ancient legend and tradition of tales in Asian folklore of the Fox-Girl shapeshifter trickster character . Kitsune is a shapeshifting trickster fox woman from Japanese folklore whose character and personality resembles the crafty, playful, elusive, clever fox from the wild. She is a type of yōkai , a class of magical creature with paranormal powers. She often has two different sides: sometimes she is a benevolent deity associated with the gift of the rice harvest, while at other times, Kitsune is depicted as a demon or ghoul-like mischievous trickster who que...

Beginnings (Wisdom)

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 Star and Fox  Continuing the synchronicity manifested in Moira , documenting the patterns of mystory, I checked a concordance to identify the I Ching hexagram corresponding with the Tarot Star card #17. That hexagram is #64, Beginnings , the final one in the sequence, the point at which the cycle begins again. There are various interpretations of this hexagram, but the basic wisdom is expressed in an animal tale: The young fox has nearly crossed the stream, but he has not yet escaped from the midst of the danger and calamity. The surperior man, in accordance with this, carefully discriminates among things and the positions they occupy.  Wei Chi  When a great project is almost completed, when the other bank of the flowing stream is nearly reached, the inexperienced fox becomes impatient and makes a dash for it. As if the relevance of this situation and its cautionary tale-- Not Yet --to my own position in life were not clear enough, it so happens that a few weeks pre...