{"id":1561,"date":"2004-02-03T02:41:00","date_gmt":"2004-02-03T02:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/2004\/02\/03\/grasping-at-straws-christis-blog-says\/"},"modified":"2015-06-19T00:26:25","modified_gmt":"2015-06-18T23:26:25","slug":"grasping-at-straws-christis-blog-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/2004\/02\/03\/grasping-at-straws-christis-blog-says\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Grasping at straws<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cdenton.blogspot.com\" target=\"_TOP\">Christi&#8217;s blog<\/a> says &#8220;not now.&#8221;  Which means &#8220;maybe later.&#8221;  Right?<\/p>\n<p>I was reading about John Cage&#8217;s use of the <em>I Ching<\/em>.  As soon as he could, he used a computer program.  So I found one on the web.  At least it&#8217;s using the right algorythm, whereas I was not, since you have to toss a coin 18 times, not just six.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe present is embodied in Hexagram 20 &#8211; Kuan (Contemplation): He should be like the worshipper who has washed his hands, but not yet presented his offerings. There must be sincerity and an appearance of dignity, commanding reverent regard.<br \/>\nThe first (bottommost) line, divided, shows the looking of a lad &#8211; not blamable in men of inferior rank, but matter for regret in superior men.<br \/>\nThe situation is evolving slowly, and Yang (the active masculine force) is gaining ground.<br \/>\nThe future is embodied in Hexagram 42 &#8211; I (Increase): There will be advantage in every movement which shall be undertaken, and it will even be advantageous to cross the great stream.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Appearance of dignity, well, um, moving right along . . . &#8220;slow evolution&#8221; and &#8220;great advantage&#8221; are sounding good.  Polly told me that Jupiter is in retrograde for the next three months or so, which makes starting new projects difficult.  I&#8217;m mixing astrology and the <em>I Ching<\/em> . . . because I am a hippy new ager with an appearance of dignity.<br \/>\nAnthony Braxton came over today and left his laptop behind for me to install stuff on.  He&#8217;s in the supercollider tutorial and it met at my house today because Ron, the teacher, is off in China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grasping at straws Christi&#8217;s blog says &#8220;not now.&#8221; Which means &#8220;maybe later.&#8221; Right? I was reading about John Cage&#8217;s use of the I Ching. As soon as he could, he used a computer program. So I found one on the web. At least it&#8217;s using the right algorythm, whereas I was not, since you have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/2004\/02\/03\/grasping-at-straws-christis-blog-says\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[76,294],"class_list":["post-1561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-celesteh","tag-magical-thinking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1561"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3813,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1561\/revisions\/3813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}