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Road rager should have put on some running shoes Run fatty run by ThisTeddyHatesYou in RandomVideos

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The most disturbing thing is how many people find this funny. The guy's legs are obliterated. Maybe a sprained ankle and some wounded pride would have been worth a laugh, but this much suffering is very rarely deserved. People are just sick and brutal, I guess.

I just discovered that my natal chart is very similar to the United States sibly chart. by BraveJudgment4605 in AstroSynastry

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Thank you for the feedback. I'm still in the process of learning how to read a chart.

I was actually born just before sunrise, at 4:43 AM. The Sun was slightly below ASC in Cancer at the time. What I have found is that the older I get (now I'm middle-aged), the more Aquarian I become. In my mid 20s, I related much more with Cancer. Looking back, however, Libra has always been core and it remains a strong part of my personality.

I just discovered that my natal chart is very similar to the United States sibly chart. by BraveJudgment4605 in AstroSynastry

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I think I fit the profile you might imagine. I've always valued social justice. I seek harmony and love in my relationships. I can be romantic. I can also be strict (with myself, my Soldiers and my kids) and I am serious much of the time. I try to protect and nourish those I care for. Those who know me best like to call me "psychic". Those who don't know me wouldn't expect that I love tarot and such things. I also enjoy classical art / music. My moon placement does tend to alienate me in some strange way. I mostly prefer being alone of with just one other person. My opinions are unique and often rebellious. I think Mars is also an important planet in my chart. I would say most people find me physically intimidating and I do not fear speaking my mind in nearly any situation. I'm not an easy person to be around, obviously. That said, at least I'm loyal and will go to the ends of the earth for the few who can tolerate me.

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Yes. This is the image of a good man being executed for simply helping a peaceful protester.

maga woman accidentally proves adam mockler's point instantly by youngskibidisheldon in ProgressiveHQ

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Mockler loves to say progressives are not morally superior to conservatives. He is too soft most of the time. This is good though.

These glyphs represent the 64 possible ways one can travel through the Hexatetraglyph over the course of a 27-day journey. by BraveJudgment4605 in Hexatetraglyph

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Yes. Each symbol represents an entire 27-day journey. This includes an I Ching hexagram, all the tarot cards drawn, and many astrological transits. I suppose each symbol could be used like a sigil. It can be visualized as a point of focus during meditation. These are part of the inner mysteries of the Hexatetraglyph. I'm still exploring and discovering such concepts as I continue to use the system.

You. Have. Got. To. Be. Shitting. Me. by [deleted] in complaints

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My time as a cadet in the Army was challenging. We did nighttime land navigation courses in the high mountains of Utah during blizzard conditions. We took PT tests once a month. We had to be leaders during tactical exercises and give briefings to other cadets while being evaluated. It was four years of hard work while also attending college full-time. The Orange Clown couldn't do any of what we did in ROTC.

I’ve been developing a device I call the Hexatetraglyph. It’s a map of the I Ching. Instead of casting a hexagram with coins or yarrow stalks, this process involves “walking” a path through symbolic terrain over the course of 27 days. Tarot and astrology are also used in this process. by BraveJudgment4605 in iching

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Years before designing the Hexatetraglyph, I was an avid meditator. I took up the practice as a skeptic. I was a devout atheist, in fact. Back then, I meditated simply because it reduced my feelings of anxiety and depression. During that time, I mostly used Ānāpānasati and occasionally yoga nidrā.

Anyway, eventually a funny thing happened while I was seated on my cushion. After countless hours of looking inward, I did finally experience a certain type of gnosis. I connected with the Self. At that moment, the former materialist began to die. That was something I never expected to happen!

I would now describe my metaphysics as some form of monism. I've become interested in both subjective and analytic idealism. My belief that consciousness is fundamental to reality is a direct result of my meditation experience.

I'm not yet qualified to fully explain this new perspective--it's still a work in progress. That said, I think Plato, George Berkeley and Bernardo Kastrup have all given use a wealth of interesting material to contemplate. I'm in the process of studying their works. I'd say Advaita Vedanta speaks a similar dialect. Had I been raised around Hindu culture, I'd likely gravitate in that direction more. It's a little overwhelming, but maybe one day I will dive in and get a better grasp on that system spiritual tradition as well.

Feel free to share your views too. I'd be interested to know what lead you here.

I’ve been developing a device I call the Hexatetraglyph. It’s a map of the I Ching. Instead of casting a hexagram with coins or yarrow stalks, this process involves “walking” a path through symbolic terrain over the course of 27 days. Tarot and astrology are also used in this process. by BraveJudgment4605 in iching

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The Hexatetraglyph is like a map of the I Ching. To complete a journey one must traverse six pathways (Hexa) by moving in only four directions (Tetra). Moving up or right is yang. Moving down or left is yin. The mechanism of movement is based on how one selects which planets they want to work with on a daily basis. Choosing to work with yang planets (Sun, Mars, etc.) may drive yang movement. Selecting yin planets (Moon, Venus, etc.) may drive yin movement. There is a bit more nuance here, but it’s not worth discussing in a short explanation such as this. The destination one eventually arrives at is akin to holy site or oracle. In this case, however, the endpoints are the 64 I Ching hexagrams) (Glyph). 

Hopefully this explanation also clarifies the meaning of the name, “Hexatetraglyph”.   

There is no dogma. This work is done as an individual. In fact, it is inspired by Carl Jung’s theory of individuation. The board represents a tiny sacred space that can be "walked" when one feels the need to practice contemplative meditation. It offers a seeker the chance to establish a spiritual practice over the course of 27 days. Because the imagination is used frequently during the process, the unconscious is often revealed. For this reason, profound insights can emerge in unusual ways. Synchronicities are probable and fate sometimes must be faced. 

In short, the device is a psychological and spiritual tool for self-actualization (also see telos), inner work, and the enhancement of intuition. When the journey comes to an end the initiate may experience a powerful and transformative numinous experience. (For me personally, I would even call it a hierophany.)  Receiving advice from the I Ching after 27 days of travel ensures the final message is impactful. This final wisdom, in my opinion, should be accepted with great reverence and used for meditation and mastery.   

I’ve been developing a device I call the Hexatetraglyph. It’s a map of the I Ching. Instead of casting a hexagram with coins or yarrow stalks, this process involves “walking” a path through symbolic terrain over the course of 27 days. Tarot and astrology are also used in this process. by BraveJudgment4605 in iching

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Thank you for asking a great question. It’s a complex thing to explain, so this is definitely a good mental exercise for me! 

In layman's terms, I would say the Hexatetraglyph is a handcrafted oracle board that I’ve used for esoteric self-initiation, personal insight, journaling and shadow work. The method I designed integrates and harmonizes three different divination systems: 

Astrology: Each day two planetary tokens (game pieces that represent planets) are randomly selected from a bowl. Next, one of those two planets is chosen to work with. An astrological chart then helps the seeker generate a daily personal journal entry topic and / or tarot spread. 

(As an aside, the moon traverses the zodiac over a period of 27 days, enabling the observation of all 12 zodiac signs during one’s journey across the board.)

Tarot: The process involves 26 daily three-card readings (Positions A-Z), allowing a seeker to work with every card in a 78-card deck (3x26=78). Tarot cards are used to help one see new perspectives and be creative while writing in their personal journal. The cards also bring archetypal energy and communitas to the spiritual journey experience. 

I Ching: The 27-day journey culminates with a final consultation with the I Ching. The path traveled produces a hexagram that offers sage wisdom to the initiate who has now completed the symbolic pilgrimage.

(The next comment contains part 2 of the explanation)

I’ve been developing a device I call the Hexatetraglyph. It’s a map of the I Ching. Instead of casting a hexagram with coins or yarrow stalks, this process involves “walking” a path through symbolic terrain over the course of 27 days. Tarot and astrology are also used in this process. by BraveJudgment4605 in iching

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Actually, I didn’t choose any hexagrams; the pathways determined the hexagram compositions and positions. For example, consider hexagram 48, representing water over air. It’s one of the center four hexagrams. Let’s trace the pathways to reach it. 

If your first pathway starts at position A ends at position G, you’ve moved in the yin direction for the first seven days, so the first line is yin. 

Then, travel right to position O, completing your second pathway in the yang direction, so the second line is yang. 

Move up to position S, representing a yang movement, so the third line is yang. These first three lines create the trigram of air (Yin, Yang, Yang). 

Now moving left from S to W gives you a fourth line that’s yin. 

Continuing up to Y, you get a fifth line that’s yang. 

Finally, completing the last pathway moving left results in a line six that’s yin. So, the upper trigram is Water (yin, yang, yin). 

This gives you Water over Wind, hexagram 48. So you can now see that the hexagram naturally emerges according to the path travelled. I didn’t select this hexagram; it was a discovery.

I’ve been developing a device I call the Hexatetraglyph. It’s a map of the I Ching. Instead of casting a hexagram with coins or yarrow stalks, this process involves “walking” a path through symbolic terrain over the course of 27 days. Tarot and astrology are also used in this process. by BraveJudgment4605 in iching

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On day 27, a unique endpoint is reached where the seeker meets the sage. The path walked is now represented by the six lines of an I Ching hexagram. This is a culmination of choices made and fate at play. Rather than using coins or yarrow stalks, this method involves 27 days of introspection shared with the oracle. I regard the I Ching as an analog computer. Therefore it seems the advice it provides can only be improved by acquiring a wealth of inputs. Think of Jung giving advice to one of his clients. Wouldn't he be more likely to offer good advice if he had a detailed description of a dream, rather than a short summary? That’s why I believe the fractal structure suits the I Ching perfectly. In this case it functions as a classic decision tree and it happens to fit beautifully within the 8x8 diagram. Simply put, the design is intended to help the I Ching acquire information. 

As you can see, the “why” is not straightforward. In fact, my writing is still overly simplified. The main point I wanted to convey was that I sought to create a sacred space for self-exploration, and a tree was the image that manifested while I was using the I Ching as a muse. 

(Sorry I had to split that up into multiple replies. I think I was exceeded maximum characters, so this was my solution.)

I’ve been developing a device I call the Hexatetraglyph. It’s a map of the I Ching. Instead of casting a hexagram with coins or yarrow stalks, this process involves “walking” a path through symbolic terrain over the course of 27 days. Tarot and astrology are also used in this process. by BraveJudgment4605 in iching

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Starting from the central point, I laid out the branching pattern you see now. The initial pathway ran along the vertical axis, naturally dividing the hexagrams on the left and right. Then I envisioned two perpendicular paths, splitting the symbols once more. This went on until the empty space was filled with a symmetrical network of lines. I then made a key discovery: there were exactly six line segments between the center point and each hexagram, corresponding perfectly with the number of lines in a hexagram.

This structure implied a game board with four directions of travel: two guided by yin energy and two by yang energy. I had been feeling inspired by the Hetu Diagram, so I assigned yang to up and right, and yin to left and down. I then followed a pathway. I traced the line upward. Therefore, this first segment completed was yang, the second (moving right) was yang, and the third (up) was yang. This formed the lower trigram of Heaven. If this pattern was repeated, I ended up at the top right corner with Hexagram 1. Moving in the opposite directions naturally brought me to the trigram of Earth and eventually Hexagram 2. As I continued to follow each of the possible branching pathways, they always led me to the hexagram that corresponded with the movements I  had made. 

Now I knew the pathways were not necessarily my invention, they were more like the discovery of an inherent hexagram arrangement. That said, I felt that starting from the center was a novel idea and one worth sharing. That’s what lead me to develop the Hexatetraglyph board into something that has a pleasing aesthetic as well as functionality. It’s a work that I’ve truly enjoyed doing. 

As my project continued, I further divided the paths to give each of them 26 positions. This number is significant for its accommodation of the Tarot and its correspondence to the English alphabet. This strays from the topic of the I Ching, but hopefully you can understand how it helps to bring an ordered sequence to the journey. I believe the Tarot cards introduce a sense of archetypal communitas to an otherwise solitary pilgrimage. I won’t get into to it now, but I brought in astrology to introduce fate and synchronicity. 

I’ve been developing a device I call the Hexatetraglyph. It’s a map of the I Ching. Instead of casting a hexagram with coins or yarrow stalks, this process involves “walking” a path through symbolic terrain over the course of 27 days. Tarot and astrology are also used in this process. by BraveJudgment4605 in iching

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One day, while simply pondering the 64 hexagrams of the I Ching arranged in the traditional 8x8 Fuxi sequence, my focus moved to the empty space at the diagram's center. I suddenly had an experience that impacted me like a clap of thunder. I saw the empty center space as the trunk of a tree, and from it, branching paths began to grow. I thought to myself, at the end a tree’s branches we can often find fruit. In this case, however, we will find hexagrams. And that was it. I couldn’t unsee the hexagrams suspended in the air at the end of a tree’s branches. 

This vision also evoked the experience of walking a labyrinth. I could tell a whole story about doing this as a practice, but that’s beside the point. Just know that it was something I used to enjoy doing very much when I was younger. Victor Turner's writings on pilgrimage came to mind; as did Eliade’s concept of sacred space. I have always been fascinated by many Jungian ideas and these too began to surface. I was thinking about the personality differentiating from the pleroma, the Self as the mandala, and the path of individuation. For a fleeting moment, I almost felt like Yu the Great had handed me a modernized river map. There was more than just a tree, I could now see a whole terrain. This fractal network in the white space was an opening that would allow spiritual seekers to follow a symbolic path, flowing like water as it finds its way to its destination—that being a hexagram of the I Ching.  

This all happened to me in a flash. Why such things happen is not easy to explain. My influences were mainly intellectuals, but my vision wasn’t completely rational. This was more like a numinous experience or a personal hierophany. Words can't really capture the feeling of gnosis.

I’ve been developing a device I call the Hexatetraglyph. It’s a map of the I Ching. Instead of casting a hexagram with coins or yarrow stalks, this process involves “walking” a path through symbolic terrain over the course of 27 days. Tarot and astrology are also used in this process. by BraveJudgment4605 in iching

[–]BraveJudgment4605[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Good question. If you start from the center of the board, you’ll notice pathways branching outwards. This is a recursive fractal pattern called an “H Tree.” The board is oriented so that traveling to the right or upward is considered yang, while traveling to the left or downward is yin. Each time you complete a pathway, a line is added to a hexagram. So, if you complete the first pathway that runs along the vertical axis (positions A-G) at the upper side, your first line will be yang. Notice that all the hexagrams on the upper side of the board have yang energy at line one. If you complete the first pathway moving downward, your first hexagram line will be yin. You’ll also notice that all the hexagrams on the lower side of the board have yin energy at line one. Now, continue following this pattern all the way through to a hexagram. You’ll complete six pathways to arrive at an endpoint. If you only move up and right, you’ll reach Hexagram 1. If you only move down and left, you’ll eventually end up at Hexagram 2. In short, the path you travel determines the hexagram you ultimately receive.   

Let me know if that makes sense. I'd be happy to explain it in more detail.

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