Sometimes the cards annoy me... LOL. I asked how to approach an insight I received yesterday, and got 20: Overview. Which I interpret to say: Contemplate this yourself. SIGH. It feels like it isn't an answer, and yet I know that the answer will be revealed if I sit still enough to listen to my own inner guidance. Sometimes I just want to be told clearly... though often I wont listen. LOL. I guess I will be allowing myself time for introspection today.

Lately I’ve been feeling really exhausted by everything that’s going on here in Israel. It honestly feels like running a marathon with no finish line in sight. So I asked the I Ching: how can I better deal with the exhaustion of the war? I got: → Hexagram 38 (Opposition), lines 4 and 5 → 37 (The Family) → Nuclear: 63 (After Completion) → Complementary: 39 (Obstruction) 38 felt very accurate right away: that inner sense of being split, not fully aligned, like part of me is just not in it anymore. Line 4 says: “Isolated through opposition, one meets a like-minded person…” I can clearly see my husband in this - being a strong, steady presence in the middle of all this. Line 5 too: “The companion bites through the wrappings… If one goes to him, how could it be a mistake?” → making the effort to connect, even when things feel messy or heavy. Then 37… This one felt very personal. The “family,” the structure, the perseverance of the mother. I have my three girls, and I really felt at the beginning of all this that I had a kind of rhythm, a container for them… and I can feel that I’m losing it a bit with the exhaustion. Not in a dramatic way, just… less presence, less patience, less structure. 63 (After Completion) honestly annoyed me at first. Because it’s supposed to describe a state where everything is in the right place — and I was like… nothing feels in the right place right now. But then I started to read it more as: energy already spent, something that has already been carried through, and now needing to be handled more carefully. And then 39 (Obstruction). What’s interesting is that I usually experience the complementary hexagram as something that reflects what came before… but here it feels very present. Like the obstruction is just… the reality. I’m curious how you would read this: - How do you understand lines 4 and 5 of 38 in this kind of emotional exhaustion? - What does Hexagram 37 look like in real life when you don’t have much energy left? - And how do you personally work with the complementary hexagram, especially when it feels current rather than past?

This week, I found myself returning again to the Tao Te Ching. These two texts come from the same ancient Chinese wisdom tradition, and although they are different in form, they speak to each other in a very natural way. The I Ching shows us patterns of change, situations, and how energy moves through time. The Tao Te Ching feels more like a direct pointing to the underlying principle behind it all; the Tao itself, the way things flow when we are aligned. Where the I Ching gives us images and guidance for specific moments, the Tao Te Ching often brings us back to something more essential: simplicity, non-forcing, humility, presence. Do you ever read or meditate on the Tao Te Ching? Do certain chapters stay with you or come back to you at particular moments? Feel free to share your experience or even a favorite line 💛

The twelve sovereign hexagrams describe how yang (☰ solid line) and yin (☷ broken line) rise and fall through the year. It starts at the winter solstice (around December): one yang line appears — Hexagram 24, Return. Then each month, one more yang line is added: January → Approach, February → Peace, March → Great Power, April → Breakthrough, until May/June reaches Hexagram 1, Heaven — full yang, peak expansion. You can almost feel it: energy building, things wanting to move, grow, come to life. Then the cycle turns. Around June, yin begins to enter: one broken line appears — Hexagram 44, Meeting. And month after month, yin grows: July → Withdrawal, August → Obstruction, September → Observing, October → Stripping Away, until November brings Hexagram 2, Earth — full yin, full receptivity, everything returning inward. Less push, more reflection, a different kind of intelligence. What I like about this is how practical it becomes once you see it. You start noticing: am I in a phase of building, or a phase of integrating? Right now (March), we’re in that rising energy — Great Power — where things want to move forward. Does that resonate for you? Where in your life do you feel something growing or gaining momentum lately?