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January 27 - February 17, 2023
Power is always borrowed, never created. — Dào’zǐ, Book of the Way (Classic of Virtues), 1.1
dragon, phoenix, tiger, and tortoise,
Fushugi yugi, anyone?
Calm the storm of your emotions. A restless ocean is not one to sail upon.
this dagger—That Which Cuts Stars—was created to fight demons.
To know the future, one must first understand the past. —Kontencian Analects (Classic of Society), 3:9
“If you want the truth…if you set out on this path, you must know that there is no way back.”
Grief is for the survivors, and I think that, rather than living my life in pain, I would live it in laughter and love. To the fullest.
“It is a sacred spring that is said to flow from the tears of the moon, representing the heart of yīn energies on this mountain. For thousands of cycles, masters and worshippers have held their prayers by its waters, hoping to unlock the balance in their energies…and you have just bathed in it.”
Ooo, kung-fu panda… one does not wash his pits in the pool of sacred tears.
“Wayward,” the grandmaster said, “has less to do with the type of qì one wields…and everything to do with how and why one wields it.”
The map lies within. When the time is right, This ocarina will sing for the Ruin of Gods.
Perhaps this was the truth to the Way. Perhaps this was all meant to be. And in the darkness, a new thought came to him like a flame. It is the duty of those with power to protect those without.
