Bonito Living

This oracle is inspired -amongst many other omens- in the iChing, the Chinese book of wisdom. After counting sticks or using three coins combinations you get an hexagram: six lines compounding one of the 64 signs of the I-Ching. The way it’s built is from bottom to top and normally it comprises two figures based on the natural or domestic world: lake, force, sun, wind, wood… and the metaphors and visions those combinations create.

So let’s start today with the bottom aspect: ‘an amazing job’: how many times we have done just that and we have said it loud? Do we celebrate our own well done triumphed, our personal or emotional successes, the huge little jobs that make up our lives? One of the daily practices of successful / happy people is to take time to celebrate a job well done!

This takes us to the second line (bottom up) of “mystery no more” this is an intriguing line: something will be revealed in the week. Open your senses because sometimes mysteries don’t make a big fanfare but are subtly revealed… what would it be?

That revelation may open new windows of opportunity, but you need to be ready. What are those paths that are announcing? And how can we “open to a move”? Moreover how can we prepare for a move? It can be small or big, but a move can be as refreshing as a change.

The oracle definitively points a move, a change, a mystery revealed, and the line of “I decided to draw” makes me think of how we can bring those changes to the fore through active drawing as a sort of visual manifestation.

The following line may resonate with many of us, where “ageing well” is not only about the physical sides and the acceptance of age, but rather a celebration of the things we know because of age. What are those things you celebrate now?

The top line is all about the return from holidays, from resting or a hiatus with a splash: “back with a bang” incite us to go all the way, drawing upon the wisdom of our age, the openness to a move, and the general feeling of knowing we are doing an amazing job!

So for the creatiBe homework this week i suggest you to have a little drawing of the things you want to get, to do or to be. Don’t worry about how good the drawing is, it’s only for getting the “magic wand” dancing. Be as detailed as you can: if you want a new house, how will it look? How many rooms? If you want finding love, how would that feel? Or a new job, how much will it pay? What will be the balance of work and life? Be as detailed as you want, go crazy, go wild, let your dreams roam free and high. Share your drawings in social media with the hashtag #creatiBegym. Let’s see what it comes!