FLUX TOME (I Ching) Perspective Unique, Novel and Revolutionary !

Flux Tome is a novel approach to the Oracle of the I Ching independent of the details of the traditional Chinese texts.This structural analysis of the hexagrams, concepts, and sequence of the I Ching explains and expands all other available texts while connecting with the awesome inherent wisdom and elegance of this ancient system.

There are six independent insights packed into this unique development:

Hexagram meaning from the set of Yang lines only.
Conceptual ideograms in simple American terms as a dialect of ancient Chinese.
Correspondence of the 360 degrees of the Zodiac to the line judgments of hexagrams 3 to 62.
The King Wen Sequence explained by Pythagorean Tetraktys and Lao Tzu poem 42
Structural interpretation of I Ching Oracles from The Oracle Book.
Integrated Stars-n-Dice perspective reviving the Global Awareness of the 6th Century BCE

Explanation of the
Flux Tome Hexagrams’ meaning from just the Yang lines

There is a natural sequence in the Yi hexagram process starting in the first line which is on the bottom and moving in order up to the top or 6th line.
Yang lines are full and they have a natural attraction or potential directing them toward open Yin spaces.
The interaction of line place sequence and Yang to open Yin space potential determines the overall hexagram meaning.

This sequence starts with the roots or first appearance upon the field of this process. It is the point focus where this situation or process begins to arise from prior conditions.
The second place is the growth of structure where more than just its existence begins to manifest.
The third place is the passion of this new situation or process. It is the line of development that establishes a relationship from inside this hexagram out into the world.
The fourth place is the heart’s feeling or the image of the soul of this situation or process. Here development has marked out its boundaries, established its inner space and taken its principled stand.
The fifth place is the Crown or the overall organization as a complete entity with its own form and center.
The 6th, top, or final place is the transition from this process to the Next. It is the flower of its development and the seed pod carrying its next generation of new beginnings into subsequent conditions.

That is all that is required to look at a hexagram and figure out its meaning. A few examples will demonstrate the technique:

Hexagram One Sunshine This is a hexagram with all Yang lines. The only background here is the open space in the overall matrix or between the line places. Without any open Yin lines, the only direction in this hexagram process is up the sequence of line places from first through 2nd and 3rd and on up in order to the 6th or top place. Overall, this is the hexagram of pure process itself operating in natural sequence and order as determined by the fundamental dynamics of Planet Earth.

Thus it is the hexagram of Sunshine which is the energy process that animates and motivates all life on Earth. With the interaction between Planet Earth topography and the celestial mechanics of solar flux (sunshine) comes the water cycle. Sunshine evaporates water from seas to form clouds that bring rain to the fields and runs off through the streams and rivers to return to the seas.

It is not just trigram K'un doubled. It is not just hexagram 1 with all its lines changed from Yang to Yin. It is a primary perspective of the King Wen Sequence giving meaning to hexagram patterns by their sequence number.

Hexagram two is a matrix of a topography map. The six lines represent various elevations starting with sea level. The zero point for land elevation. Sea level is a constant and events at that level run with general principles like the cycle of the seasons.

Hexagram One overall expresses the entire energy process of the Water Cycle. Its individual lines simply describe the 6 double hours of the day from before dawn when it is difficult to see clearly to finally after sunset when it is time to unclutch, let go and allow the night to take over and the stars to shine.

Hexagram Two, however, is the depths of the Earth which controls the background and the context of all Earthly events and situations. The Planet Earth is structured by its topography, with the elevation above sea level being the essential determining feature of all situations.

The first line of Hexagram Two is the transition from all prior to this situation. This is the environment of the land mass where humans live and develop. This is sea level, the final destination that draws all water from the land and completes the Water Cycle.

Its elevation is a universal constant like the celestial dynamics that creates the seasons and determines their continuing angular momentum that controls and maintains all tradition. Therefore the judgment upon this line place TREADING ON FROST HE KNOWS THE ARRIVAL OF THICK ICE. The early steps show the way. The seasons change in regular and dependable order.

The second line place is a low elevation, but above sea level, this is the topography of a major river mouth which would be a port and trade center where a great city will naturally develop. Thus the ruler of the hexagram and its judgment.

The third line place is the elevation of bottom land where the fertile silt in the runoff water helps with the development of good crop land. That is the place of lots of work in the fields with control of the harvest not important until the season is over and the best possible harvest brought in.

The fourth place is the higher elevations, like hillsides... not mountains yet, but still inconvenient for the best fields. Thus it has the judgment of the tied up sack--could be fertile land, but will require special preparation that is only worth the hassle in special circumstances.

The fifth line place is a high though not ultimately high mountain elevation. This is where the elite spend the summer. It is not an area for simple cropland, rather a place of lovely views suitable for those with golden to spare seeking the ideal second home location.

The six line place is the spectacularly high mountain elevation which is an awesome sight of Divine presence. Here the majesty of the great mountain challenges the grandeur of the celestial heavens--however, it remains still just elevation down on Earth. Thus the judgment that the earth dragon fights with the celestial dragon.

The other hexagrams represent specific situations and processes, beginning with hexagram three the first thunderstorm of spring that begins the growing season.

The Yang line in the first line place is powerfully attracted toward the three open Yin lines above it in the sequence of the hexagram matrix. Action is beginning with a strong momentum. The Yang line in the fifth place has a potential that is attracted by the open Yin spaces both above and below it. This Yang line is progressing on while also connecting downward toward the other Yang line in the first line place. They will move together in their process as the situation develops further and fills in. The hexagram of STRIKES — or the action that begins things but has to wait to see its results before it can be fully judged.

Hexagram Four Pupal (pupil) This is the hexagram with only two Yang lines, in the second and top places. It is the situation where only the structure and the transition to the Next is focus. Everything else is open Yin available for new development or total change. This is the hexagram of the chrysalis or cocoon where a structure exists to support the transformation from PUPAL caterpillar to its complete metamorphosis into the butterfly. It is also the young school child or pupil sitting at their desks in the classroom being trained or the pupil of the eye which is the structure that adjusts to changing light conditions.

The Yang line at the top place is powerfully attracted by the three Yin lines below it, resisting the natural movement on to the Next. The Yang line in the second place is attracted both by the open Yin place below it and the three Yin lines above it. This structure is being pulled apart internally as it is tending to join the Yang transition above it and move on to the Next. This is the hexagram of the student or youth cadet being trained for future service as a part of a whole overall social system.

Hexagram Nine Open Field This is the hexagram of all Yang lines, except for the 4th place or inner space and soul’s image. It is process moving powerfully on with its only defining character the open Yin space within its inner boundaries. This is where the minute details of the inner state controls the overall situation as this process proceeds along its clear path.

This is the weather system whose roots, defining structure, energy, overall frontal organization and powerful transition to the next set of weather conditions are all clear cut. However, whether this systems brings just clouds that scuttle along the jet stream leaving the fields parched or drops nourishing rain or develops severe thunderstorms of damaging winds, rains, floods, or more is all determined by the chaotic local details of the micro conditions.

The three Yang lines of the first three places are attracted to the one open Yin space in the fourth place, encouraging and developing their focus. The two Yang lines in the final two places are attracted back toward the open 4th line place as well, resisting their focus upon overall organization and transition to the Next.

The overall process is focused upon what is going on inside the soul and inner space of this hexagram where the development of the Next will appear and grow eventually. This is the hexagram of the OPEN FIELD of great potential and active process but so far nothing is being seen of any of its future.

Hexagram 10 Treads This is the hexagram of all Yang lines, except for the open Yin in the third place of personal passion. It is process without current energy which still continues to connect its roots, structure, inner space, overall organization and transition to the Next moving on together. This is where the defining condition of the process is its current quiescence and lack of inner energy.

This is the deep lake or world seas where the situation and structure of the Planet Earth topography has released and exhausted the kinetic energy of elevation to make a stable reservoir soaking up the current rays of the sunshine to generate water vapor to start the water cycle all over again.

The beginning two Yang lines of prior conditions and structure are attracted toward the open Yin space of the third line place. The upper three Yang lines are pulled back, their forward progress resisted to fill in the open Yin line in the third place of local energy. This is the hexagram of Contents where what is gathered up into this reservoir forms a secure surplus which contents all who can draw upon it.

This is the technique of seeing the meaning of the hexagram from just the Yang lines in the six place matrix. Once the hexagram meaning is liberated from the traditional Chinese texts a whole new universe of meaning opens up. First comes the notion of what is a hexagram, an oracle of the Yi, the fundamentals of what is Yang and Yin.

A Novel Look at the Oracle of
the Flux Tome (I Ching or Yi)

Hexagram Two The Ultimate Matrix

The pair of highlighting marks, or the pattern of hexagram 2 were not fundamentally part of the hexagram itself. They were the matrix of the whole system of gestalt images which were only descriptive background for philosophical analysis.

This was the original Insight that the meaning of the hexagrams can be seen in the pattern of Yang lines in this hexagram matrix. It was a major departure from traditional I Ching studies where the duality of Yang and Yin lines as both composing the hexagram patterns. Yin wasn’t just feminine and therefore subservient to Yang, it was a totally different concept without connection to actual human gender at all.

Rather the Yi was a universal symbol system reducing the complete analysis of any and all perceivable situations or processes in terms of a standard graphical matrix of six line places. These line places projected out from personal center deep within the circumference of inner Self to form 3 pairs of sensitive points counting from the absolute, and unperceived Source in the middle and center of the graphical format.

The innermost circle, represented by line places 3 and 4 was the realm of the Heart or your personal inner feelings. Line 3 shows the personal passions coming up from below. Line 4 is the realm of the soul’s image or heart’s feelings coming down from above to become the vision that one follows.

The middle circle represented by line places 2 and 5 are the realm of the conscious Self. The lower line place 2 is the structure, where you stand, the legs and skeleton by which an individual controls their position and situation. The upper line place 5 is the overall organization, where your conscious minds plans, administers and controls the entire situation within your control.

The outer circle, represented by line places 1 and 6 or first and final are the realm of the whole of the external environment as it impinges upon your perceived situation and process. This environment at the beginning contains all the roots and prior realities which have brought your situation and process to this stage. The final line place is the transition to the next generation of your current situation and process. This 6th stage contains everything that will develop out of YOUR current situation and process though it is not part of your relevant perceived process at this point.

An oracle of the Yi was thus a gestalt image of how things were in YOUR perception and how they were developing in terms of this relevant process perspective. The line patterns were actually marks of concentric circles marking out various distances from YOUR absolute Center or Source.

Actual oracles of the Flux Tome or Yi have an additional feature of the moving lines. Everything is in flux even the perceived matrix patterns of the Flux Tome oracle. Some focus or Yang lines may be expressing and exhausting their independent focus, burning their energy and sinking back into the overall matrix. These are the moving Yang lines.

Other open Yin line places may be developing out of the background to become clear focus points. These are the moving Yin lines. As these gestalt perceptions changes, the current situation or process will change in terms of the relevant process perspective for the entity for which the oracle has been cast.

These changes demand that a full Flux Tome or I Ching oracle involves two hexagrams: the original oracle hexagram and the resultant hexagram which will form when all the moving lines have completed their change between focus and background.

The oracle hexagram is what the situation or process feels like now as your question is asked and the oracle answers. The moving lines indicate active changes in the various ling place stages of the matrix which are currently developing. The second or resultant hexagram represent where these line places changes would eventually lead to if allowed to completely go off on their tangent of development.

Ultimately, Yang and Yin are simply what it is that we are focused upon or ignoring as we experience reality from ourselves as center of our perceived universe. They have no independent existence or meaning beyond their ability to symbolically represent each of us in our own experience.

The Yang and Yin perceptual gestalt moves from first to final place in the hexagram sequence coming up to the third line place where our relevant personal absolute center or Source is the vital point that determines the circumference of the symbolism but isn’t any part of any of the hexagram symbolism.

Ancient Chinese Conceptual ideograms become simple American terms
as a dialect of Universal Symbolism

These conceptual graphics of the ancient ideograms offer great insight into the deep meaning of many of the technical terms of the Flux Tome or I Ching or Yi Jing as it is actually pronounced. The next insight of the Flux Tome Perspective is to find simple American terms which could be seen as another dialect pronunciation of the ancient Chinese ideograms.

The result is not a translation of the Chinese terms as an expression of the original symbolic concepts in current American terminology. I was told there was a theory that Chinese and English shared some fundamental linguistic properties in their history and usage since these were the only two major language cultures where the spoken terms of the common people remained the language of the elites.

All land masses and nations have been conquered or overrun by foreign invasion. Most cultures have adopted the language forms of their occupiers, leaving their original language of the common people as a minority relic. The Chinese have absorbed their conquerors and kept their culture.

The Anglo-Americans maintain a dual system of formal language which is based both on the language of the Roman Empire that occupied Britain for centuries and the simplified combination of the various languages groups who lived together forming this alloyed culture of the Anglo-Americans and their joint English language.

The fundamental technical terms of the Flux Tome or I Ching are:

I or Yi whose ideogram is described as a chameleon lizard, or the sun and moon, or the moon in its various phases. It is translated as change, easy, the metal tin.
Ching or Jing with the ideogram of a Confucian classic book published and bound with silk.
Yang whose ideogram is composed first of an element for a mountain and then another for a pennant or flag.
Yin whose ideogram begins with this same element of a mountain and then another for a dark valley.

The American terms chosen for the Flux Tome perspective version of these technical terms:

Flux which has the meanings of change, flow, the smelting material which helps slag separate from newly formed metal, and convenient, fluid metal of solder which is 85% tin, as well as a range of other meanings including solar flux or the energy of sunshine, celestial mechanics, and the unceasing tides of change in events.

Tome a massive and revered book or volume of ancient lore.
Focus or the gestalt image which appears upon a background.
Background or the ignored graphic area which controls what image can be seen overall.

Flux Tome Names in Flux Tome Perspective

After working with Gia-Fu Feng on his Taoist translation of the I Ching I had become comfortable working with the individual Chinese ideograms which made up essential terms and slogans of the I Ching. We had found American terms to substitute for the ancient Taoist mystical concepts involved.

For me the Flux Tome perspective was simply the next step in my I Ching research and development from the work with Gia-Fu. My next step in my life quest was to enter law school. Rather than finish that adventure, I visited my astrologer friend in Belgium and while teaching him about the I Ching I learned the secret of the fundamental structure of the hexagrams.

The use of these hexagrams as an Oracle is greatly clarified if they have names that both accurately describe their process or situation and convey insightful connotations to the folks casting the oracle. Finding these new names required two sets of sources. One was the meaning of the hexagram from the Yang line place patterns. The other would be the original Chinese concept ideograms in the ancient text.

Flux Tome became the pair of American terms chosen to represent the concepts in the Chinese ideograms known as the I Ching. Replacing the Chinese term Yi with the notion of Flux and that of Ching with Tome were part of a use of the conceptual, non-phonetic structure of the Chinese language.

Ezra Pound had attempted to translate the Confucian Classic The Book of Odes (the Hymn Tome as it were) through his musings upon the possible meanings of the graphic elements in the ancient Chinese characters or ideograms. His work was greatly resented by the Chinese academics.

How much of their upset was from the errors in his translation and how much a reaction to general Chinese resentment of their Alien imperial British overlords is open to debate. In any event any attempt at original translation without going through the Chinese texts and scholars became an academic NO-NO!

But the academics never were able to see beyond their medieval cloistered library to observe the actual reality of the world we live in. Beyond them were the dynamics realities of a living independent adult standing between the Solar System exploding through space from the Big Bang and their own symbolic timing maps.

It is the interplay of celestial mechanics of the Solar system with the skewed orientation of Planet Earth which creates our entire Cosmic reality animated and regulated by the interaction of solar flux with the Planet Earth topography. This is the shared universal reality of all traditional indigenous peoples which was abandoned in the aftermath of the Dark Ages and Black Plague in the West.

It is the timing tides of the entire solar system which was once a single spinning cloud from the Big Bang which develops the basis and mapping potential of the astrological horoscope. It is the universal abstract symbolism of the Flux Tome or I Ching which so elegantly brings us oracle answers to our personal questions through the relevant process symbolism also described by Pythagoras and built into the patterns upon the dice cube.

The 64 Flux Tome Hexagram Names in Order by the King Wen Sequence:

Sunshine
HomeLand
Strikes
Pupal
Watering
Striving
Corps
Filling In
Open Field
Treads
DreamLand
No Exit
Love Song
True Gold
Churning
Singing
Tracking
Ferment
Coming Together
Models
Digging In
High Lights
Fall's Down
Spring's Back
Naivete
Virgin Land
Nursing
High Over-Head
Deep Depths
Flaming Bright
Moon Shine
Old Faithful
Flight
Plows
Rising Son
Setting Sun
Homing
Screens
Valley Forge
ReLease
Sacrifice
Blessing
Over-whelming
Lady Luck
Deep Feeling
Un-Furling
Missing
Mine
Molten Goals
Altar
Swooping
Peaked
Diamond Cutting
Chasing Rainbows
FireWorks
Just Passing
Streaks
Contents
Solution
Lining
Love's Root
Razor's Edge
Morning After
Eve

The Line Pair Interpretation Slogans:

Two Yang Lines:

The Heart is (lines 3 & 4): Full, Explosive
The Will is (lines 2 & 5): Firm, Intense
The Environment is (lines 1 & 6): Framing, Squeezing

Two Yin Lines:

The Heart is (lines 3 & 4): Receptive, Sensitive
The Will is (lines 2 & 5): Open, Quiet
The Environment is (lines 1 & 6): Isolating, Clarifying

Yang Under Yin Lines:

The Heart is (lines 3 & 4): Pushing, Questing
The Will is (lines 2 & 5): Driving, Demanding
The Environment is (lines 1 & 6): Evolving, Flowing

Yang Over Yin Lines:

The Heart is (lines 3 & 4): Embracing, Desiring
The Will is (lines 2 & 5):Questioning, Balancing
The Environment is (lines 1 & 6): Resisting, Developing

Hexagram Line Places:

6th Line Place: Flower, Seed Pod, Top Knot or hairdo of
5th Line Place: Crown or Organization of
4th Line Place: Soul or Heart of
3rd Line Place: Passion or Ego of
2nd Line Place: Structure or Legs of
1st Line Place: Roots or Origin of

The Flux Tome correspondence of the King Wen Sequence
to the Sabian Symbols of Astrology

This meant the I Ching with its King Wen sequence was composed of 60 hexagrams of general process with another 4 hexagrams which were Corners composed of special meaning. Sixty hexagrams with six lines each is 360 lines, exactly like the 360 degrees of the astrological Zodiac. This insight allows correspondence between the I Ching or Flux Tome and the Sabian Symbols by Marc Edmund Jones. .

Thinking in terms of the graphical symbolism of the Zodiac, the 4 corner hexagrams would be like the cardinal points of the Zodiac, describing Heaven, Earth, Sunrise, Sunset. Then the question became how to correspond hexagram 3 to some degree of the Zodiac and Aries 1 to some line of the I Ching Flux Tome. .

I made that correspondence in terms of the graphics of the circles. The Zodiac begins at the Eastern horizon or left side. The I Ching grows up from a bottom root to a top flower. That made 1 Aries at the far left point which is hexagram 48 line one. And hexagram three line 1 at the bottom which is the first degree of Cancer in the Zodiac. .

Using those correspondences worked very well. The next step came when I added in my Stars and Dice insight explaining the signs of the Zodiac as the first to twelfth dot-patterns of the dice cubes. I looked at the 6 lines of the Flux Tome hexagram and compared them to the six dot patterns of the dice cube. The dice patterns explained the traditional line place meanings. .

I noticed the dice dot patterns also explained the line pairs of the traditional hexagram commentaries. The first and sixth as transitional, the second and fifth as controlling, and the third and fourth as internal transitional. These line number pairs all add to seven. They fit in all ways to the positioning of the dot-pattern numbers to the dice cube. .

Finally, I realized that the Pythagorean Eidos of the dice were not a separate system at all. Rather they were the universal 6th century BCE global awakening symbol system that explained any and all natural timing analog--dice, Zodiac, I Ching--Flux Tome, etc.

Applying this insight to the King Wen Sequence itself I remembered a line of commentary in Willhelm/Baynes noting that the hexagrams were ordered into sets of 10 (with 4 extras). Looking at Pythagorean metaphysics, their fundamental principal was based upon the notion that a complete set of 10 was formed by the monad, the dyad, the triad and the tetrad. These were each described by their dice face pattern--1, 2, 3, 4. .

This universal integration of timing analog mapping systems allows each of the line places from the hexagrams #3 to 62 of the King Wen Sequence to correspond to each of the 360 Sabian Symbols for the degrees of the Zodiac. This is its own major subject to be discussed upon its own page.

Sabian Symbols for 360 degrees of Zodiac
and Flux Tome line correspondence

Ultimate Flux Tome Explanation of the King Wen Sequence

Looking at the T’ai Chi as a symbolic representation of the Pythagorean Tetraktys shows how the graphic symbolism illustrates the principles involved:

First, the Tao is the outer circle that contains and organizes everything within its circumference. It is the great void in Chinese philosophy or the Monad in Pythagoras.

The two contrasting swirls of the T’ai Chi are the Dyad. These swirls are based in the two half circles drawn upon the midpoints of the two radii of the diameter, expanded to divide the whole circumference into equal halves.

The centers of the circles that determine these swirls are also the source of the eyes. This is the Triad of the Tetraktys showing the narrative process beginning with the eyes, developing the two swirls and expressing its final product in the total symbolism within the outer circumference.

The Tetrad focuses upon the two swirls of contrasting colors and the two contrasting eyes at the centers of the two swirls. These are the representation of the double dichotomy along the single central diameter of the T’ai Chi.

The first 10 hexagrams of the Flux Tome or Yi are the decad of the water cycle. These are the simplest and most concrete examples to demonstrate the Tetraktys analysis technique applied to the Flux Tome hexagram sequence. .

The monad would be the entire set of ten in a single image or process. The dyad would be the set as a pair of polar opposites. The triad would be the set as a process with a beginning, middle and end. The tetrad would be a double dichotomy, in two dimensions perpendicular to each other.

The first 10 hexagrams begin with hexagram One which has the ideogram of sunshine burning off the [change to] miasmal mist to form clouds to water the fields. This is a statement of the water cycle. I applied my dice patterns to the first ten hexagrams and they all exactly and neatly fit this concrete description of the water cycle.

The detailed analysis of King Wen Sequence to I Ching and the Pythagorean Tetraktys

Structural interpretation of Flux Tome
Oracles from The Oracle Book.

Interpreting your oracle as a beginner in my Flux Tome Perspective requires that you find the Flux Tome Name for your Oracle hexagram number. Then you find the name for the Resultant Hexagram number. The two names are then written as a slogan sentence like this:

Oracle Hexagram Name >>> Resultant Hexagram Name

This can be interpreted as the first term becoming the second or the Second Arising From the First. Generally folks know what this means but everyone prefers to be told over a longer set of words then just being shot between the eyes with a bolt from the blue.

I will use the information in the section after the next headline to work on this Flux Tome Oracle I just cast on how to allow those of us who know the hexagrams numbers well to still watch the Oracle process in our own minds.That Gives a quick Flux Tome Oracle of:

Coming Together >>> Springs Back

which clearly gives a process dynamic of bringing things into concentration and letting them explode out from that concentration.

The next step is to notice which line places or stages are being highlighted by moving lines. They will be the root, structure, passion, soul, crown or flower (next development) of the Oracle situation. Further interpretation requires knowing the line place values in terms of Yang and Yin lines.

There is one moving Yang line in my Flux Tome Oracle, the second line place so the structure is being highlighted, expressing and exhausting itself and changing Coming Together to Springs back. At this moment that suggests to me that the aficionado look at the set of 64 line patterns and notice which ones jump out.

It is early in the Flux Tome interpretation, but at least that is one alternative. Those who feel the need for more Flux Tome advice for their own use can keep on with this Oracle. For the rest, Let's plow on (hexagram 34) and rejoin the viewers of first impression.

Once you have the line places as Yang or Yin you can find the meaning of the line pairs. These pairs are traditional in the structure of the Flux Tome or I Ching hexagram. They are also the same values as the dice-faces. The environment places, the heart places and the will places each add to seven, just like the dot-patterns of the standard dice cube.

If you have moving lines, then the line pair meanings of the Oracle hexagram is becoming the line pairs of the Resultant hexagram. That is the basics of interpreting an I Ching or Flux Tome Oracle. Hopefully, this brief introduction will make it easier to understand and appreciate whatever I Ching (Flux Tome) text or technique you choose.

The introduction to the Flux Tome perspective makes most sense through the interpretation of an oracle of the I Ching. In that way the reader may see the practical application of this novel approach and also compare its insights to the traditional insights available from their own or others I Ching oracle work.

I cast an I Ching or Yi Jing oracle by the three coin method for what would be a good example to use. The result was Hexagram 07 with moving lines for the first, fifth, and sixth places. Three line places filling in to join the yang line in the second place. The structure focus expanding to fill in the grounding and highlight (focus) upon the total organization and next development. Giving a resultant of Hexagram 61.

When I first grabbed my coins and threw them, I received a different oracle. As I worked on it and pondered, I realized the Yi was saying--slow down you are trying too much too fast. However, it gave me the opportunity to find my old pad of Oracle Blanks, return to using that form and complete other connections. So, my original oracle (52>>>41 Sacrifice from the Peaks) remains my private communication from the YI reminding me not to jump off into the unknown quite yet.

Now having set up my Oracle Blank form again, taken a bit of time to center my request I got this more appropriate Oracle to Interpret for the Internet. It also comes across in the form of the Resultant arising from the Oracle hexagram. This implies that it is future results that are forming, not a current situation that is working itself out.

Overall that gives the Flux Tome Oracle of:

Love's Route (Root) from the Core.

FLUX TOME as the
Classical I Ching From a
Radically New Perspective

Flux Tome (I Ching) becomes an intriguing Oracle when you can use its patterns to answer questions. What is the current situation described in terms of all the possible patterns of universal, cyclical change? Are some stages of the current situation being highlighted in a way that they are altering the process to become a different one?

Flux Tome (I Ching) is about the 64 possible binary patterns in a 6-place matrix (hexagram). As abstract graphics few folks would have much interest in the subject. However, if you can describe all the possible patterns of Earthly process in one set of symbolism, you can describe everything that could possibly happen.

The line patterns (hexagrams) of the Flux Tome (I Ching) become oracles when a method is chosen to associate these line patterns to personal questions. The traditional techniques also have a means to designate which lines or process stages are changing the overall pattern and which are stable within their pattern.

The Flux Tome perspective differs from other traditional I Ching commentary by relying mostly upon the actual line patterns rather than the Chinese commentary developed over the millennia. Since the line patterns themselves are primary, they can be given American expression as well as ancient Chinese imagery.

The guide used to organize this new American Flux Tome perspective of the I Ching or Classic Chinese Book of Changes is the correspondence of the lines of the to both the Pythagorean Eidos of the dice cube and the Sabian Symbols for the 360 degrees of the Zodiac.

The six line patterns of the Flux Tome (I Ching) called hexagrams are composed of two three line patterns (trigrams)one on top or later in sequence than the other. These trigrams are simple enough that their symbolic meaning can be readily developed from the sequence of their line places and the focus (yang) or background (yin) value of the individual places.

The background places are open or yin lines. The focal places are solid or yang lines. This symbolism is set into the general context of the interaction of sunshine and local topography which controls the water cycle and all energy, location, weather, process and development upon this Planet Earth.

Thus the trigram of three open places is Planet Earth or Heartland the same as the hexagram of 6 open (Yin) places. Since the aspect of the Earth which is vital is its topography, the three open lines depict the depths and striations of the local homeland, heartland or Mother Earth.

Similarly, the trigram of three solid lines (Yang) is Sunshine--the pure energy process that animates and develops everything we know. In ancient Chinese the ideogram for this trigram (and hexagram of 6 yang lines)is an image of the sun's rays burning off swamp mist to create clouds to water the fields and replenish the rivers.

In Flux Tome perspective, this trigram is called Sunshine. In more traditional translations of the Chinese commentary it is called The Creative. The other six trigrams have two sets of symbolism. One is family imagery of 3 sons and 3 daughters. The other is water cycle imagery of mountains, rushing water, wind, etc.

Flux Tome perspective adds two more sets of symbolism--a line pair sandwich with a single line core and a line pair sequence with a final line product. These abstract symbolic interpretations highlight the two fundamental concepts:

First, the sequence is always from the bottom line up through the second line and on to the top line place. And second, that there is a natural tension or energy from the solid or Yang lines toward the background or Yin lines.

A second or top trigram of Heartland, all open or Yin Lines, would be in Flux Tome perspective a chimney or canyon focusing the momentum of the lower trigram as it moves along from first stage to top or final stage.

A lower trigram with solid (Yang) lines in the first and second stage and an Open (Yin)line in the third stage would express a strong process with an openness as its final result or line pair process (lines first and third) moving along its core solid line to give a trigram of Contents.

From whatever description of the trigram of two yang lines followed by a yin line is Contents or the Lake or the bubbly and adventurous youngest daughter. Lots there as well as an openness to what can come next--either the lake which moves next by evaporating or overflowing or the youngest daughter meeting new opportunities.

Flux Tome perspective takes the combination of a lower Contents trigram with an upper Heartland trigram to form the hexagram 19 Coming Together. The traditional Wilhelm translation calls this hexagram Approach. It is a simple hexagram pattern with all yang lines at first and then all yin lines after that.

Trigram Heartland Over Trigram Contents

I believe Oracles arise like most everything else on Planet Earth from the interplay of Sunshine and local topography which expresses the timing patterns we live with all the time but don’t notice easily. Our brains are organized to adjust to everything constant or regular in our environment so that we can attend more fully to what is unexpected and unusual, like the immediate danger we face at the moment.

In order to focus upon our timing we need reach beyond our immediate perceptions. The timing cycles and tides of Planet Earth are regular and universal. They do not impinge upon our direct perception themselves. What we see and feel is the way they cause things to come together or fall apart.

Our Planet Earth timing contains within it all the answers to all the questions we can think of right NOW. Getting a clear picture of what is the ultimate situation of our timing requires a bit of calm open space in our minds and a system to read the timing patterns revealed.

The most obvious system to interpret the Timing cycles of Planet Earth is astrology which quite literally maps the planets for their timing relationships. The more abstract symbol system based upon sunshine and topography, the I Ching or Flux Tome is best known through its Chinese commentary.

The words Flux and Tome are my choice of simple Anglo-American terms to express the meaning of this Oracle System used for millennia in China and called the I Ching. I will discuss the whole I Ching and Flux Tome name question later further down the page.

The Flux Tome Perspective offers YOU the opportunity to understand the Oracle of the I Ching (Flux Tome) without needing to interpret ancient Chinese poetry or texts. The Flux Tome perspective offers an original explanation of the hexagrams from first principles.

There are 64 possible binary patterns of a 6-place matrix. Each place can either be part of the background matrix (Yin) or a clear focus itself (Yang). The 6 places of the overall matrix or hexagram are counted from the bottom or first line up to the top or 6th line.

The meaning of each hexagram is determined by the interaction of the points of focus in the matrix with the overall process development through the six places in order growing up from its root at the beginning place to its final flower in the top or 6th place.

Since looking at the hexagrams is never the easiest way to see their meaning, names and numbers are assigned to each of them to make them easier to work with. The complete explanation of these names and the number sequence for the 64 hexagrams and other component technical details takes up vast hours for those of us into that sort of thing.

For those not so focused on those details, let me explain the Oracle of the I Ching or Flux Tome to the rest of the Planet. Six is the natural number of Process, the perfect number of the Pythagoreans and the number of equal segments into which a circumference is divided by a compass set to its radius.

The Flux Tome (I Ching or Yi) expresses the 64 possible graphical representations of dynamic process in terms of six stages. After the 6th stages comes the first stage of the next process. Any beginning is also the 7th stage after the completion of prior process.

This is the totally general and absolute abstract fundamental premise of the Flux Tome or I Ching. Its generality and abstraction make it possible to fit exactly the specific details of YOUR situation or question right NOW.

The abstract and general becomes concrete and specific when it is given a context and metaphor. Any understanding of the technique begins by making an acquaintance with the Oracle of the I Ching, the Spirit of the Yi, the comments of the Flux Tome.

Let me offer a link to a website which offers all manner of interaction with the traditional I Ching. You can enter hexagram numbers (1 to 64) to get a full oracle with hexagram line patterns and moving lines. You can create your own hexagrams by clicking on the line places, once for Yang, twice for Yin and then clicking the check box for moving lines, Yang or Yin and get the hexagram numbers.

You can go from there to other pages to cast the oracle of the I Ching or get traditional commentary upon the oracle and a few of its moving lines. When there are many moving lines some traditional I Ching folks find that too confusing. The Flux Tome perspective is fine with all Yi Oracles.

Here you can meet the traditional I Ching Oracle Community

Now that you have the opportunity to visit other commentary let me share with you the Flux Tome Perspective. It has roots into the Taoist branches of the ancient Chinese commentary (see Taoist I Ching on the Nav Bar) and it has its own development in the work of Frank R. Kegan (this entire website included).

Let me begin with the first principles of process. The concept has been the bane of some and the delight of others over the centuries. Ibn Gabirol's Fons Vitae or Living Fountain (using translated Source of Life or Fountain of Life) is generally misinterpreted as a Neo-Platonist from his several hundred pages of medieval logical discussion.

Actually, the whole of Ibn Gabirol's thesis culminates in just a few lines. He is describing the creative process of sunshine animating and energizing Planet Earth. In the 11th century the idea of a concept was virtually to explain and the concept of process took several hundred pages of apparently Neo-Platonic mystical syllogism.

Process remains an abstract notion, it is ultimately the abstract symbolism of anything dynamic or developing. Anyone can see the concrete details, it is a more limited and sophisticate operation to appreciate the generalization of those details as a process or system.

Given any current process, it must develop, that is what a process is all about. It does not however, have to continue along its own lines of development. Any process has basically two options: it can continue along its own lines of development without changing its pattern of focus and background or it can change its total pattern by emphasizing certain parts of its process.

If some stages are highlighted as a particularly intense focus (moving Yang) they will express and exhaust themselves, blending back into the general background (becoming Yin lines). Any stage that starts out as background but becomes a focus (moving Yin lines) will emerge from the background pattern to a new pattern with that stage as a focus (Yang line).

Every Oracle of the Flux Tome (I Ching) involves two hexagrams, either the same hexagram twice or two hexagrams. In either event the Oracle has answered your question with these two processes. If it is the same hexagram twice, then your process is moving along from first root to its final flower as your oracle process.

The entire process and each of its stages is relevant to your answer. This does not mean you are stuck going through all these stages (or their line judgments). It does mean if that is not the process train you wish to ride, it is up to you to change something.

Yes, Ginny, no Oracle is obligatory, their process is never carved in stone. Often just casting a Flux Tome or I Ching Oracle will change the process right there. Things Change and Oracles do not interfere with that changing reality. They just tell you about what it is doing right NOW.

If two different hexagrams are involved, your oracle is starting out with the first Oracle hexagram process which is accentuating the stages indicated by moving lines. As these changes in emphasis develop the overall process is moving along toward the resultant hexagram process.

When will it get there? That is a very different issue. In terms of a Flux Tome Oracle it is just a goal which the tangent to your current place upon the circle of Now is looking at. Getting there would be a separate matter. If you are on a ballistic missile kind of personal process you will get to that second hexagram process unless you get shot down.

If you are on a more introspective personal process, the Resultant Hexagram of your Flux Tome Oracle is more like a prime time TV show playing in your bedroom. You are involved in the narrative but not committed to the same exact outcome or time line.

It makes no difference if there is zero, one, several, or all the lines moving in a Flux Tome oracle the reality remains the same. Your personal process answer is symbolized by the first or Oracle hexagram which is tending toward the Resultant.

The line pattern of the oracle hexagram becomes the line pattern of the resultant or final hexagram. In all Oracles, Flux Tome, traditional I Ching, whatever. What changes is the ease of using a standard text of hexagram line judgments to interpret your oracle. That is a limitation in the I Ching interpretation texts not the Flux Tome (I Ching) or the hexagrams or the Oracle.

The most important ingredient in an insightful oracle is YOUR calm open mind receptive to whatever the process pattern shows you. The second important ingredient is a genuine need felt right now to have an answer or advice from the Oracle. Given those two prerequisites the rest follows rather simply.

On the Psychic Reading Page (Be Your Own Psychic on the Nav Bar) there is a method to watch your own mind chose your oracle by allowing yourself to think of two natural numbers 1-64. You can also throw coins or break a bundle of yarrow stalks or generate the four possible kinds of lines any way you like.

Once you have your oracle hexagram with possible moving lines you need to interpret it. At this point you have access to a selection of techniques. The one option not yet dealt with is how do you use the two natural number technique if you know the I Ching hexagrams so well they are not numbers but dear friends.

In general, if you know the I Ching well and cast the Oracle often and knowledgeably you have one or more techniques you use all the time. That would be fine for any Flux Tome interpretation as well. However, if you want to watch the process happen in your own mind that is more subtle.

The simple solution for me right now is simply to ask the Yi and interpret its answer of a Flux Tome Oracle by the information I have available here. Hopefully, that will be helpful and insightful for us all.

My Flux Tome Oracle came out as Hexagram 19 moving toward hexagram 24. Now I need to go through interpreting that, which here on this page means presenting some Flux Tome Oracle Interpretation text.

For those familiar with the Yi and eager for more depth here is a link to a complete set of Flux Tome Oracle Interpretation Sketches.

Line Place, Trigram, Corner, Nuclear, Oracle and Resultant Hexagram Sketches

I am still working on my Flux Tome Text which will explain and interpret the hexagrams in all their myriad possible perspectives. Being willing to let go of one's Magnum Opus can be a difficult personal challenge.

For now let’s just jump to the meaning of YOUR personal Oracle. With a calm and clear mind you somehow determine the number for your Oracle hexagram and that for the resultant hexagram when all your moving lines have changed the focus and background of the process.

Oracle Hexagram Name >>> Resultant Hexagram Name

That Gives a quick Flux Tome Oracle of
Coming Together >>> Springs Back
which clearly gives a process dynamic of bringing things into concentration and letting them explode out from that concentration.

Flux Tome Background Concepts

The simple t'ai ji

Flux Tome insight:It was standard belief that the Chinese Ideogram for "Yi"or "I" in the more Anglicized transliteration of the Wade-Giles system (to make Chinese look more respectable to British casual readers and its proper pronunciation require training in this system) was untranslatable into English or any other language.

However, the word referred to a reality that could not be solely knowable in Chinese. The reality of China was that although everyone spoke Chinese, the actual language they spoke was totally localized. It was said at a short distance it was a different dialect and by a distance of 300 li(think miles) it folks could not understand each other.

The Imperial administration had to be able to send out official edicts everywhere and have them understood. This gave rise to the Mandarin Chinese, the language of these Imperial officials, but also to the system of writing Chinese as Ideograms, that is concepts, not just phonetic copying of the spoken language.

It was a huge innovation of ancient China. The pressure to use the phonetic associations in the written language crept back into the language in later centuries one way or another. However, ancient Chinese which is a totally different language from modern Chinese, much as Sanskrit is not modern Hindi although the same spelling of words appear in both.

My visiting professor of Indian Buddhism and the Atman concept made quite a point of how modern Indians made all sorts of mistakes through their use of modern terms just because they saw the same word as the ancient terms.

His knowledge of philology was impressive. He could see a term in our texts, chant the original verse, give his philology and explain the error in the term used and who first published that error in what text.

Ancient Chinese therefore, I surmised should be well and ably explained by the radicals and concepts in the ideogram and open to be pronounced with any sound whatsoever. Therefore, it should be possible to study the written form in the ancient script (back when the Chinese used a fountain pen, before they modernized to the faster brush) and find a word to pronounce that concept in say American English.

When I explained this notion to a Sabian Student who was born and raised in the U.S. but now taught Chinese at a University in the Netherlands. Clearly he enjoy complex linguistic challenges. He objected at once to the concept of my work telling me that the Britisher Ezra Pound had looked at the Chinese characters used in the Book of Odes and made a translation of that poetry into English.

Pound's translation, like most things British was rejected by the Chinese as a disrespectful affront to their independent culture. Therefore, it was inappropriate now in all academic circles to do any such work. I could agree and sympathize that the nation that had forced China to use their opium, even fighting several Opium wars about it was ugly.

The British looked down on the Chinese as the Texans looked down on Mexicans since they had been conquered by their ancestors. In history of technology class it was noted that the Chinese met the British invaders with bows and arrows (operated with both arms and both legs) that were the equal in range, accuracy and firepower of their explosive warheads of the British guns.

They lost as most wars are lost because they were poorly led under the distracted Emperor of the day, not from a lack of technology or a well-trained army. The Chinese Emperors also have had a remarkable disinterest in folks outside their huge realm (or even outside their Imperial enclave often).

China has sent fleets of explorers, conquerors and colonists to establish sophisticated iron works and trading posts far out in the Pacific in the swamps of New Guinea (great source of renewable charcoal to smelt iron). Reports of a Chinese monk visiting the Navajo before the year 1000 CE are now being re-interpreted.

I would not seek to translate Chinese, my insight was that the ancient Chinese could be pronounced in American English as it was pronounced in the various different phonetic languages of regions of China. This maintained that the fundamental concepts were universal and not just parochial Chinese.

It is a controversial idea, but it offers the path to a truly global written language which unlike Esperanto does not require everyone to learn a new linguistic metaphor. The concepts would be conveyed in the written forms and pronounced in the local terms. A different writing style would be useful, as ancient Chinese is unknown today by pretty much everyone.

This means we are all equal in coming to use it. It would have a somewhat limited vocabulary which would be pictographs but at least it is a start. Generally, what truly needs to be communicated is rather straightforward, simple stuff. The rest is all academic claptrap added to be elite or sophisticated.

That is the long way to explain I came to the notion of my Flux Tome perspective by assuming that there would simple (at least short) American English terms that would express the same concepts as ancient mystical Chinese.

One example would be the fundamental term Tao which is used by Taoist and Confucian sages as well as being on modern street signs to describe an "avenue" thus it got translated often as the "Way."

The Chinese ideogram has the element for head following that for walking. In the style of these ideograms one would expect the walking process to be primary and the head to be an indication of chief, primary or central.

One might look closely at the actual ideogram for Tao and see to the left, a person walking along a trail that becomes quite prominent as the trail of that walking, and to the right a head with a drawn face in it.This might refer to head as prime or capital or to the head as the center of perception and philosophy.

Tao is the central concept of Taoism and Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching (or Trail Spirit Tome). When Tao is taken as the overall context or background Trail or implicit expectations to each specific gestalt with its highlighted details upon the blank page of background matrix then it becomes possible to understand how important it is to turn inward in order to catch of glimpse of the perception process rather than just looking outward for objective data without noticing personal commitments and prejudices.

The Ideogram for TAO

Longer comments upon the term Tao or Trail

The radical (partial element of an ideogram) for walking is a stick figure of a person with his path as he walks trailing off behind him. The head is just a head. In general head is used to signify most important, first, chief or central organizing and control. So the ideogram would indicate the process of ongoing seen in terms of the chief, main or central organizing principle.

I took this to mean the TRAIL as it was a natural path that one follows walking and the natural path that one forms by one's walking. A reasonable description of all the mystical connections of this term of context that controls and interacts with everything we do.

That seemed a good start. I next turned to the I Ching. The term TOME struck me as a good, antique, short word that would give the sense of a heavy book by reverence or weight. Tome is a bit out of use commonly today, but that means it is available to redefinition by specific use right now.

The final hurdle was to come up with the American English term that would convey the combination of radicals in the ideogram of "YI" which has a stylized picture of various things with various drawings. Some say it is the sun and the phases of the moon and of a lizard or chameleon scurrying by. Others say it is the sunshine and rain (water cycle).

I look at the at the drawing on the flyleaf of the Wilhelm and I see a nice grid box with squares within and marks in the squares that seems to indicate the organized database of the Yi text. The second part of the ideogram is easily either the moon going by changing phase or a little creature running along.

The sources I saw spoke of the meaning of YI being easy and changing. Having a background in my course in history of technology, the easing aspect suggested to me the Flux stone that is used to easy the flow of smelted metal away from the rocky slag.

Flux is also solar flux or magnetic flux, the flowing process of these energies. It can also refer to any sort of flow, like a river. The medical use of the term would today be diarrhea or the easing of control of the process of evacuating the bowels. A chameleon is famous for its ability to make its skin pattern flow into the background foliage and thus camouflage.

Thus was born my Flux Tome perspective upon the Yi Jing or I Ching. An older cousin of mine immediately took the Flux term to refer to diarrhea, but then she also took the term physics to refer to laxatives. It was more of the standard family dynamic to denigrate and belittle my work that anything else.

Today I would simply reply, people see what they are most focused upon. For me Flux Tome is the simple portal into a perspective on the ancient classic that ties it to solar flux and the process of sunshine and Planet Earth topography.

Flux Tome is clearly a new and different way to look at a revered ancient text which bypasses the traditional academic models of detailed translation and reliance upon historical dating by artifacts found in tombs (I call it grave robbing, but that upsets those demanding objective proof something was concretely established at some specific date).

It also abandons the primary emphasis upon the exact words in the Chinese text to instead focus upon the process being described by the line patterns. This came to a head with my correspondence of the 360 Sabian Symbols for the degrees of the Zodiac to the line judgments of the 60 core hexagrams (excluding the first pair 1 and 2 as well as the last pair 63 and 64 which work better on the angles of the Zodiac wheel).

The difference between reading poetry for deep meaning and studying the underlying structure which is being covered with a painted skin or hull of the current poetic imagery is the difference between worshiping a text and getting down to the nuts and bolts of an amazing working apparatus.

Flux Tome invites the engineering analysis of the ancient text to find how it conveys such powerful meaning in its oracles for so many millennia. It allows the comparison of so many of the ancient systems that were part of the global awakening and intellectual discoveries of the 6th century BCE.

In that century the horoscope appears in Sumeria, Pythagoras lives in ancient Greek Mediterranean islands, Lao Tzu writes his 81 poems and Confucius begins the modern commentary on the I Ching. Flux Tome is the portal to rediscover that global insight into the interaction of Sunshine and Planet Earth topography which is the essence of human understanding how to live in harmony with our Planet.

Medieval Scholastics rejected all prior learning as being non-Christian. Modern scholars decry the occult background of the I Ching, Taoism and everything else more sophisticated than their military technology and conquest mentality. That tangent is now running its course.

Global Warming is no accident. Like all so-called environmental problems it is the Tao of Planet Earth expressing itself by throwing back all the stuff our fossil fuel technology has exhausted out of sight. It was convenient to draw imaginary lines and say everything over that line is out of our concern and forget about it.

Taking imaginary lines as real, like thinking you can put things out of sight and therefore have them disappear is magical thinking of the lowest order. It is the essence of the isolated systems perspective of modern science and technology.

Yi Jing or Flux Tome is the wave of the future. Its ability to answer questions and give sage counsel to you as you can understand it and need it is a marvel for all to behold. Not that everyone gets it. However, that is true with everything. We each chose what we notice and what we ignore. This is not a property of anything external to ourselves. It is the reality of human perception.

Flux Tome Tao development narrative

The introduction to the Flux Tome perspective makes most sense through the interpretation of an oracle of the I Ching. In that way the reader may see the practical application of this novel approach and also compare its insights to the traditional insights available from their own or others I Ching oracle work.

I cast an I Ching or Yi Jing or Flux Tome oracle by the three coin for what would be a good example to use. The result was Hexagram 07 with moving lines for the first, fifth, and sixth places. Three line places filling in to join the yang line in the second place. The structure focus expanding to fill in the grounding and highlight (focus) upon the total organization and next development.Giving a resultant of Hexagram 61

When I first grabbed my coins and threw them, I received a different oracle. As I worked on it and pondered, I realized the Yi was saying--slow down you are trying too much too fast. However, it gave me the opportunity to find my old pad of Oracle Blanks, return to using that form and complete other connections.So, my original oracle (52>>>41 Sacrifice from the Peaks) remains my private communication from the YI reminding me not to jump off into the unknown quite yet.

Overall that gives the Flux Tome Oracle of: Love's Route from the Core

The Full Explanation of the Oracle Blank format and its use to interpret this oracle will be its own Web page accessible here.

Oracle Blank Interpretation of 7>>61
Love's Route or Root from the Core or for the Corps

Integrated Stars-n-Dice perspective reviving the Global Awareness
of the 6th Century BCE

Flux Tome Perspective is clearly a new and different way to look at a revered ancient text which bypasses the traditional academic models of detailed translation and reliance upon historical dating by artifacts found in tombs (I call it grave robbing, but that upsets those demanding objective proof something was concretely established at some specific date).

It also abandons the primary emphasis upon the exact words in the Chinese text to instead focus upon the process being described by the line patterns. The received texts are one set of perspectives upon the prior texts written and transcribed many times. There is nothing in traditional I Ching scholarship to explain what was the structural basis of any of these commentary texts.

This came to a head with my correspondence of the 360 Sabian Symbols for the degrees of the Zodiac to the line judgments of the 60 core hexagrams (excluding the first pair 1 and 2 as well as the last pair 63 and 64 which work better on the angles of the Zodiac wheel).

Reviewing the individual hexagram meanings in light of the decad analysis based upon the final digit 1 to 0 in the King Wen Sequence and the monad concepts of the decad, results in an awesome appreciation of the sophistication and elegance of the King Wen Sequence.

In the sixth century BCE the horoscope appears in Sumeria, Pythagoras lives in ancient Greek Mediterranean islands, Buddha preaches in India; Lao Tzu writes his 81 poems; and Confucius begins the modern commentary on the I Ching.

Flux Tome is the portal to rediscover that global insight into the interaction of Sunshine and Planet Earth topography which is the essence of human understanding how to live in harmony with our Planet. It is an obvious perspective to those who live from the crops raised upon their family fields, observed the sun’s shadows during the day and the phases of the moon and the rising and setting of the stars at night.

As the climate crisis borne of their simplistic equations and assumptions run to ruin in the blind pursuit of 10 percent abstract gains without any notion what that meant in absolute terms now threatens true catastrophe within the next year. Hunks of polar ice the size of U.S. cities are already broken free. Larger hunks the size of states and small countries are threatened.

Not that anyone expects the oceans to swallow up entire continents. The salinity gradient that keeps Europe from having the climate of Siberia with glaciers forming each winter is in grave jeopardy every summer now. But that is just a bit of a new tipping point.

This human principle of ignoring some aspects of our experience and environment to focus upon others is what makes the Flux Tome such a powerful personal oracle. Casting the Flux Tome oracle is a bit of a mystery in probability or objective science perspectives; however that is another indication of the deficiencies of that foolishly simplistic view of reality.

There are two fundamental views of the Cosmos. One sees the vast expanse of the diverse Planet Earth topography; and the ultimate energy and regularity of patterns of sunshine within the swirling complexity of the ever churning heavens; saying everything that anyone needs is given by Father Sun and Mother Earth.

We are called upon to live in harmony with their regular rhythms and they will provide for our needs and delights! The rules are simple and clear. Treat everything you experience with respect and insist you are also treated with respect by all. Seek what you need, and find abundance that moves you to give thanks and be happy and content.

The other says that all True knowledge was given to only us and stored in our paradigm books in the official library that lasts through the silly mortal limitations of death and Plague and personal conflict. Everything belongs to those who seize power and declare themselves the direct representatives of the Divine in human life. Everyone else must bow or be killed, their views and ideas ignored.

This second view delights in the phrase, “There is no free lunch!” Everything must be paid for to those whose control of activities and profits allows them to rake in 10 percent growth in whatever it is that there accounting says it should be. They view everything and everyone as a source of revenue and advantage or interference in their process to be rolled over or destroyed.

Each of us gets to make our own choice, though the camps of the two perspectives are beginning to shift in this new millennium and Great Age. The modern millennium of the Dark Ages is finally over. Its worldview came to fruition in the technology and passion of World War I. Now the choice is to learn how to re-establish the global awareness of all indigenous peoples and the sages of the 6th century BCE or be the final casualties of PTSD nightmares of the modern folks.

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