Transits, 8 March 2016: Futility Eclipsed

Transits, 8 March 2016: Futility Eclipsed – by David Sherman


Are you feeling like it’s just not worth the effort? Like you can’t get a foothold on what might come next or why it even matters?

Few lines are as bleak as 47.6 – The line of Futility in the gate of Oppression. From the Rave I’Ching = “A difficult position in which there is no exaltation. The sun in detriment, where the strength of will alone may find a way to adapt and survive, but without hope of ever overcoming the oppression. Life as an ordeal stripped of realization.”


Whoa. Inhale, exhale, read that again. This week’s transits are no joke.


With the Sun, the New moon, and the North Node all in Gate 22 forming a solar eclipse and pulling against the Earth, the South Node and Jupiter (moving retrograde) in 47, the weight of mental Oppression is as its heaviest right now (especially if you’ve got a hanging Gate 64), and seeing this transit clearly is the best defense against falling into the trap of attributing the oppression to some abstract personal failing.

With the north node holding in 47.6 and wearing us down, the answers don’t need to come right now. The negativity will pass, but not for awhile longer, as the Sun/Earth has three more days in Hexagrams 22/47, and the nodes will be churning through the same 6th line for the next few weeks, until March 28. Their next stop? Line 5, The Saint, with no detriment – “The gift in times of oppression to maintain without hypocrisy a harmonic relationship with one’s oppressors, while providing aid and succor to the oppressed…”


That’s a funny line, because it doesn’t tell us that the oppression is going to go away, just that we’ll be able to deal with it, and all pat each other on the back for getting through the worst of it. The joy of futility is in realizing that it’s not about you – it’s nothing you did wrong, and there’s nothing you can do to change the currents. Gate 47 will be activated for the next few months, so get used to the oppression — see it for what it is, and when the stars align, harmonize with it.


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About the author: David Howard Sherman Davis (5 August 1970 / 02:55 / Brooklyn, NY) first became licensed as a Human Design in 1995 by Ra in Taos, New Mexico. A writer, musician, and international educator, he has lived and taught in five countries on four continents. His novel “Learning to Stutter” is available online at Amazon and CreateSpace.


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