Dea T.

Adam Phillips writes in Missing Out that “we are always haunted by the myth of our potential, of what we might have been.”

Cast Hexagram:

59 - Fifty-Nine

Huan / Dissolution

Wind carries the Mists aloft:

Sage rulers dedicated their lives to serving a Higher Power and built temples that still endure.

The King approaches his temple.

Success if you stay on course.

You may cross to the far shore.

SITUATION ANALYSIS:

Walls meant to protect have instead separated and isolated.

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The Virgo Moon is the most silently burdened Moon in the zodiac. Other Moons may carry heavier pain, but the Virgo Moon carries pain with such competence that nobody notices it is carrying anything at all. You are the one who holds the details. Who remembers the appointment, the allergy, the preference, the small practical kindness that no one... See more

This is why Lacan places the signifier at the center of clinical work. As he states: ‘‘In analytic practice, mapping the subject in relation to reality . . . and not in relation to the signifier, amounts to falling already into the degradation of the psychological constitution of the subject’’ (Seminar of Jacques Lacan 1964 142). In other words,

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“Man is the creature who does not know what to desire, and he turns to others in order to make up his mind. We desire what others desire because we imitate their desires.” — René Girard.

“love is never any better than the lover. wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly... the lover alone possesses his gift of love. the loved one is shorn, neutralized, frozen in the glare of the lover’s inward eye.” ― Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye

In point of fact, the intellect cannot justify the power of passion, and yet it naively considers itself obliged to deny that power. But in choosing to hear of other reasons but its own, the intellect errs; for it can go into the reasons of the heart if it so chooses, provided it does not insist on reducing them first to the calculation of reason.... See more