Beginnings (Wisdom)

 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 previously a fox came into our driveway at midday, took a drink out of the outdoor cats's water bowl, and when I went outside to run him off, looked me in the eye. This is the first fox ever to visit us in forty years. This incident is the very definition of an omen, as if to say: listen to the oracle. The ideograms figure a tall tree + running water through a corn field. The commentary praises one's theoretical grasp of the situation  as if viewing a scene from a tall tree, but warns that the work requires you to descend from theory into experience to test your insights in practice before completion is possible. This description of my attitude, relying on theory and leaving practice to others, could not be more accurate. My life's work is not complete. Will I heed the advice now? The oracle suggests new developments are coming before the end, that will require renewed creative power (return to beginnings).


4Kids is a way to responding to this challenge. I made a composite of the two oracles, in a scene in which the fox joins with the Star maiden at the water source.  The Star signifies hope, optimism, a promise of healing and wholeness; (new) beginnings.






The Star


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