Ideograms of Too Much

This week I put out my translation and commentary on hexagram 28, these are some of the key ideograms from the te

橈

Bending is tree+towering. A tree bending under its own weight.

枯

Withered is old+tree

華

Flower is simply a flower.

Qabalah

Chesed containing its opposite, Hod. This hexagram lands in Hod because of this opposition, while most paths are “mechanical”: the corresponding trigrams of two sephira meet on the path, this follows the logic of the maxim “Malkuth is in Kether”. Jupiter and Mercury are zodiacal opposites, Pisces is opposed by Virgo, Sagittarius by Gemini. The vast and the particular.

It given the Four of Wands and the Four of Swords, a very fun relationship which won’t last, and a brief truce which will not last.