Oracle for the Week of 4.1.2024
Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being. — Albert Camus
Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being. — Albert Camus
WU WANG
Innocence
(The Unexpected)
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A completely positive hexagram this week without a single reservation.
THE JUDGMENT
INNOCENCE. Supreme success.
Perseverance furthers.
If someone is not as he should be,
He has misfortune,
And it does not further him
To undertake anything.
Man has received from heaven a nature innately good, to guide him in all his movements. By devotion to this divine nature within himself, he attains an unsullied innocence that leads him to do right with instinctive sureness and without any ulterior thought of reward and personal advantage. This instinctive certainty brings about supreme success and “furthers through perseverance.” However not everything in nature in this higher sense of the word, but only that which is right and in accord with the will of heaven. Without this quality of rightness, an unreflecting way of acting brings only misfortune. Confucius says about this: “He who departs from innocence, what does he come to? Heaven’s will and blessing do not go with his deeds.”
THE IMAGE
Under heaven thunder rolls:
All things attain the natural state of innocence.
Thus the kings of old,
Rich in virtue and in harmony with the time,
Fostered and nourished all beings.
In springtime when thunder, life energy begins to move again under the heavens, everything sprouts and grows, and all beings receive from the creative activity of nature the childlike innocence of their original state. So it is with the good rulers of mankind: drawing on the spiritual wealth at their command, they take care of all the forms of life and all forms of culture and do everything to further them, and at the proper time.