The deconstruction/reconstruction of a golf swing is a much appreciated visual of a process that has, in my own life, left me self-critical, without awareness that, between the old and the new, lies . . . the mess.
Thank you for the image of what change looks like.
In preparation for the I Ching gathering you're holding later today, Satya, I watched your lesson and did a consultation. I am very clear as to why I received 49 and 43 hexagrams: Shedding/Total Transformation and Deciding-Parting/Determination.
My question had to do with what deeper lesson or message was connected to my various health issues this year (i.e. discovering I've had PCOS for 20 years and didn't know, insulin resistance, losing hair!!). Talk about gobsmacked when I read this! Yes, there is a lot of unplanned but very intentional healing work I have to take on now that I have a clearer sense of my "elevated state of chaos" (from my journaling before tossing coins 😆) and it's root causes.
Literally losing my hair for everyone around me to witness has been such a painful but important experience of shedding ego. I see now, too, there is a way toward healing that ends with health and total integration.
I'm really glad something guided my cursor to stumble on this Substack post of yours! Looking forward to being in community later today.
Oh gosh, yes! It was really great to hear from everyone and get a sense of how people metabolize hexagrams. I actually think it also might have made my readings feel cloudy and I was having trouble understanding what I pulled.
I'm walking away from them for now and will return in a few weeks to take a look again lol FWIW I got 7>54 for B and 32>45 for my own question (How will I know the best path for my next phase in life?). Looking to move next year, wrapping up a lot of things here in the northeast. :)
P.S. After following your protocol for calculating hexagrams, I pulled 4>23 (related to my original post on health). Both feel helpful, but I got a good laugh being teased a bit by the I Ching!
This is my favourite post of yours, Satya! I resonated so much with your reflections on "swing change" when you first shared it. It’s such a powerful metaphor for so much of what you capture so beautifully in your work. It even inspired me to write about the messy side of growth—and I quoted your brilliant take in a piece recently published by Katie Couric Media! (Link here if you'd like to peek: https://tinyurl.com/The-Pink-Zones Your reminder about "to let go of what is no longer working to make space for the new, even if the new is not yet entirely clear" —feels so timely and true. Thank you for giving such needed language to this essential part of real transformation.
Oh, how fun! I love seeing that in your piece, Heidi. Thank you for sharing! I'm glad this speaks to you and glad you're helping to spread the new term ;)
what a useful term to describe this time of transition. I'm heading into my second Saturn return, have recently moved and still to find what's next. But in the meantime there's the opportunity to shed much of what has shaped my sense of self. giving the next incarnation space to take shape.
Satya...this post is so clear and filled with amazing metaphors from shedding my skin (multiple times) to changing my swing and bumbling through it all because that is always the way forward. I also loved what I call the middle-man interference who is quite ready to tell us all,
and all the time, just how something ought to be done so that we can expect a "proper" outcome; a distorted masculine point of view ingrained in our programming. I and WE are going through one lalapalooza of a swing change now with all the characteristic backlash and all the "who knows best" and all the "we just need the right middle-MAN to take over. ON the other side of the brain, we are into a Cosmic level swing change now and the ways and means and the outcomes offer many lessons in humility and 'bow down' gestures in order to make space for a swing change we perhaps cannot even imagine, YET. Great topic and thank you! Morgana Morgaine
Love this. I am absolutely in a 'swing change' and 'descent,' although I didn't call it this on yesterday's post where I grappled with what I also described as stepping forward and then running backward. It feels to be a strong theme in the collective... and I appreciate your lens. It's comforting and affirming.
I've recently been through a 'swing change' of a different kind. After taking to Vipassana meditation, I got to know who I am way better. My self-impression was always more positive than what emerged from the depths of my unconscious.
Vipassana meditation releases what's stored in the deep recesses of one's unconscious mind. Initially one discovers a tug-of-war between being drawn to one's repressed desires, cravings and aversions but Vipassana prepares you for understanding delusions and what is illusory.
At times I felt I was going backwards but was resolute in my conviction that this was going to propel me forward. Thankfully, I feel I'm on a better wicket than ever before.
The deconstruction/reconstruction of a golf swing is a much appreciated visual of a process that has, in my own life, left me self-critical, without awareness that, between the old and the new, lies . . . the mess.
Thank you for the image of what change looks like.
In preparation for the I Ching gathering you're holding later today, Satya, I watched your lesson and did a consultation. I am very clear as to why I received 49 and 43 hexagrams: Shedding/Total Transformation and Deciding-Parting/Determination.
My question had to do with what deeper lesson or message was connected to my various health issues this year (i.e. discovering I've had PCOS for 20 years and didn't know, insulin resistance, losing hair!!). Talk about gobsmacked when I read this! Yes, there is a lot of unplanned but very intentional healing work I have to take on now that I have a clearer sense of my "elevated state of chaos" (from my journaling before tossing coins 😆) and it's root causes.
Literally losing my hair for everyone around me to witness has been such a painful but important experience of shedding ego. I see now, too, there is a way toward healing that ends with health and total integration.
I'm really glad something guided my cursor to stumble on this Substack post of yours! Looking forward to being in community later today.
Radha
I hope you got the answers you needed in group today! Thank you for sharing what you did here ❤️
Oh gosh, yes! It was really great to hear from everyone and get a sense of how people metabolize hexagrams. I actually think it also might have made my readings feel cloudy and I was having trouble understanding what I pulled.
I'm walking away from them for now and will return in a few weeks to take a look again lol FWIW I got 7>54 for B and 32>45 for my own question (How will I know the best path for my next phase in life?). Looking to move next year, wrapping up a lot of things here in the northeast. :)
P.S. After following your protocol for calculating hexagrams, I pulled 4>23 (related to my original post on health). Both feel helpful, but I got a good laugh being teased a bit by the I Ching!
Ha!
This is my favourite post of yours, Satya! I resonated so much with your reflections on "swing change" when you first shared it. It’s such a powerful metaphor for so much of what you capture so beautifully in your work. It even inspired me to write about the messy side of growth—and I quoted your brilliant take in a piece recently published by Katie Couric Media! (Link here if you'd like to peek: https://tinyurl.com/The-Pink-Zones Your reminder about "to let go of what is no longer working to make space for the new, even if the new is not yet entirely clear" —feels so timely and true. Thank you for giving such needed language to this essential part of real transformation.
Oh, how fun! I love seeing that in your piece, Heidi. Thank you for sharing! I'm glad this speaks to you and glad you're helping to spread the new term ;)
what a useful term to describe this time of transition. I'm heading into my second Saturn return, have recently moved and still to find what's next. But in the meantime there's the opportunity to shed much of what has shaped my sense of self. giving the next incarnation space to take shape.
Satya...this post is so clear and filled with amazing metaphors from shedding my skin (multiple times) to changing my swing and bumbling through it all because that is always the way forward. I also loved what I call the middle-man interference who is quite ready to tell us all,
and all the time, just how something ought to be done so that we can expect a "proper" outcome; a distorted masculine point of view ingrained in our programming. I and WE are going through one lalapalooza of a swing change now with all the characteristic backlash and all the "who knows best" and all the "we just need the right middle-MAN to take over. ON the other side of the brain, we are into a Cosmic level swing change now and the ways and means and the outcomes offer many lessons in humility and 'bow down' gestures in order to make space for a swing change we perhaps cannot even imagine, YET. Great topic and thank you! Morgana Morgaine
Love this. I am absolutely in a 'swing change' and 'descent,' although I didn't call it this on yesterday's post where I grappled with what I also described as stepping forward and then running backward. It feels to be a strong theme in the collective... and I appreciate your lens. It's comforting and affirming.
I've recently been through a 'swing change' of a different kind. After taking to Vipassana meditation, I got to know who I am way better. My self-impression was always more positive than what emerged from the depths of my unconscious.
Vipassana meditation releases what's stored in the deep recesses of one's unconscious mind. Initially one discovers a tug-of-war between being drawn to one's repressed desires, cravings and aversions but Vipassana prepares you for understanding delusions and what is illusory.
At times I felt I was going backwards but was resolute in my conviction that this was going to propel me forward. Thankfully, I feel I'm on a better wicket than ever before.