On the day leading up to Yom Kippur in 2023 (Jewish year 5784) I threw the I Ching with the question, “How should I approach the upcoming year?” The resulting hexagram was Chun, rendered as “Difficulty at the Beginning” by an English retranslation of Richard Wilhelm’s classic German translation of the I Ching. One quoted phrase in the poem comes from this retranslation.
☵ Thunder ☳ Water
Now Italk again
I must rise into the storm, “the inchoate profusion of such times”
I want andI know I want
And I wanttoo much
Tell me howto want
Perseverance may engender failure, waiting though can be glory
Andy Oram
September 24, 2023