Synchronizing

This card relates to oracles and the principle of synchronicity and indicates a propitious time to consult oracles. Since you are consulting an oracle, this shows you to be presently in tune with the Tao. An oracle consultation is a conscious synchronicity, a microcosmic mirror of your macrocosmic orientation toward the Tao. Depending on the position of this card in your spread, you may want to do further readings on other aspects of your life. This is also a propitious time to reflect on your relationship to oracles and to learn more about them. The image accompanying this card documents the first time I ever photographed someone tossing I Ching coins and it caught a coin landing perfectly on its edge. Years later I took another photograph of someone tossing the I Ching coins and it also caught a coin landing on the edge. This card also relates to the Tao of photography — by the time you see a picture, it is too late to take it. The general meaning is to be guided by anticipatory intuition to catch things before they exit the gate of change. Only you can decide if the results you get from an oracle [...]

See the patterns of the everyday world. This card draws your attention to the possibility of the outer world paralleling the inner world of psyche in ways that cannot be explained in terms of cause and effect. Jung called such acausal connections “synchronicities.” In the past these parallelisms were often called “portents” or “omens,” and in many cases people projected too much into them. Modern fundamentalist materialists assume they are “coincidences” if they notice them at all. The Taoists saw the paralleling of inner and outer as inevitable and worthy of alert observation. The parallelism of inner and outer is also reflected in the alchemical motto, “As above, so below.” If this oracle is working, your reading should be an example of an object in the physical world (your monitor) paralleling the inner world of your psyche.

This card draws your attention to the possibility of your unconscious mind manifesting in the external 3D world. I believe it was Jung who said, “Psychology is destiny.” Conflicts in our unconscious may emerge as bodily symptoms, as interpersonal conflicts or various other sorts of parallel phenomena. The psyche is the core level, and what happens there will tend to be reflected in the various layers of manifestation. This parallel linking of layers does not have to be mediated by cause and effect — it can be an acausal connection — what Jung called “synchronicity.” The parallelism of inner and outer is also reflected in the alchemical motto, “As above, so below.” If this oracle is working, your reading should be an example of your psyche manifesting in the external world where your computer monitor resides. The collective unconscious of the species also manifests in the external world as the unfolding of history. Climate warming, for example, (assuming the CO2 hypothesis) can be seen as the collective unconscious of a species bound to short-term thinking and greedy, na√Øve will-to-power manifesting (in this case causally)as a symptom in the physical world. We tend to analyze the external world superficially, mistaking outer [...]

See the patterns of your world. This card draws your attention to the possibility of the outer world paralleling the inner world of psyche in ways that cannot be explained in terms of cause and effect. Jung called such acausal connections “synchronicities.” In the past these parallelisms were often called “portents” or “omens,” and in many cases people projected too much into them. Modern fundamentalist materialists assume they are “coincidences” if they notice them at all. The Taoists saw the paralleling of inner and outer as inevitable and worthy of alert observation. The parallelism of inner and outer is also reflected in the alchemical motto, “As above, so below.” If this oracle is working, your reading should be an example of an object in the physical world (your monitor) paralleling the inner world of your psyche.

Many people interpret their lives as meaningless and random. If we look closer we may find meaningful patterns where superficial observation saw only randomness. This card draws your attention to the possibility of the outer world paralleling the inner world of psyche in ways that cannot be explained in terms of cause and effect. Jung called such acausal connections “synchronicities.” In the past these parallelisms were often called “portents” or “omens,” and in many cases people projected too much into them. Modern fundamentalist materialists assume they are “coincidences” if they notice them at all. The Taoists saw the paralleling of inner and outer as inevitable and worthy of alert observation. The parallelism of inner and outer is also reflected in the alchemical motto, “As above, so below.” If this oracle is working, your reading should be an example of an object in the physical world (your monitor) paralleling the inner world of your psyche.

This card relates to oracles and the principle of synchronicity and indicates a propitious time to consult oracles. Since you are consulting an oracle, this shows you to be presently in tune with the Tao. An oracle consultation is a conscious synchronicity, a microcosmic mirror of your macrocosmic orientation toward the Tao. Depending on the position of this card in your spread, you may want to do further readings on other aspects of your life. This is also a propitious time to reflect on your relationship to oracles and to learn more about them. Both the first and the second time (this photo) I took a picture of someone tossing the I Ching coins, it caught a coin landing on its edge. This card also relates to the Tao of photography — by the time you see a picture, it is too late to take it. The general meaning is to be guided by anticipatory intuition to catch things before they exit the gate of change. Only you can decide if the results you get from an oracle are random or oracular synchronicities (parallelisms between your psyche/life situation and the signifiers ‚Äî cards, hexagrams, etc ‚Äî of the oracle). What [...]

See the patterns of your world. This card draws your attention to the possibility of the outer world paralleling the inner world of psyche in ways that cannot be explained in terms of cause and effect. Jung called such acausal connections “synchronicities.” In the past these parallelisms were often called “portents” or “omens,” and in many cases people projected too much into them. Modern fundamentalist materialists assume they are “coincidences” if they notice them at all. The Taoists saw the paralleling of inner and outer as inevitable and worthy of alert observation. The parallelism of inner and outer is also reflected in the alchemical motto, “As above, so below.” If this oracle is working, your reading should be an example of an object in the physical world (your monitor) paralleling the inner world of your psyche.