Today is the 6th of July - my husband's birthday. I won't tell you which one though. Anyone else celebrating a birthday today may it be happy, may you continue to develop and improve on your wisdom. The week prior to my birthday I review the year that has gone and then set an intent for the coming year - the qualities I want to develop for the ensuing year. It is useful to do a meditation or guided visualisation to help set the intent.

The environmental energy is yin fire sitting over the snake which is yang fire. We still have it sitting next to yang water which is over yin fire (horse). Water and fire are an explosive combination. The fire is extremely strong today with the added tendency for the horse to combine with the tiger to form the half frame of fire. There is however a small fly in our ointment - the snake is not on such good terms with the tiger. They clash with each other and make part of the fire penalty particularly in the hour of the monkey at 1500 - 1700hrs. Tigers, monkeys and snakes should take care on the roads or traveling on public transport, particularly trains, or articulated trams. Taking up sewing in the hour of the monkey would be very good, or arrange to donate blood during that time would be excellent.

The clash today is to the pig. The pig also makes a half-hearted effort to combine with the tiger to form water. None of these clashes, combinations etc takes away from the dominant energy it is merely another layer of the onion, each make up the whole. None is more important than the other. This is one of the complexities of Chinese metaphysics - what takes precedence - sometimes it is very clear cut and other times it is not and nothing takes precedence it just is!

I think today we will visit the hexagram of Ding - establishing the new. We have Li sitting over Xun. The decision according to Alfred Huang is:

Establishing the New.

Supreme good fortune.

Prosperous and smooth.

Your challenge today is to establish the new. Implement one part of your new plan. If you have not been following the challenge then spend 5 minutes now acknowledging what has been in the past and now build up a picture of the present. What do you want right now, in this moment. This is not about setting intent or such it is about being in the present so you are responsive to the stimuli in a mindful way. When we respond to situations in an habitual way we are not present we are reactive. If you would like a small guided visualisation to help with this then clicking here will take you to the visualisation. golden-bowl.mp3

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