Divination of patterns ...
"Forecasting the future" is a major preoccupation, probably rooted in a common desire to understand the relationships of Cause and Effect.
This image was just intended to be a New Year's greeting for the start of 2010. Since then, however, I've used it in several discussions about the "volatile" times that this (2010's) decade seems to be characterized by. In fact, at this time the four prime domain vectors of change in Politics, Economics, Sociology and Technology each seem to be accelerating.
At the start of 2014, I needed to expand my "alphabet" of Tags. Inevitably, I became intrigued by Chinese Symbols and learned a bit about the en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Ching and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feng_shui, used for Devination. Now I have a vast new set of Characters and Symbols to work with! Now I'll be able to encode any patterns I'm lucky enough to recognize, very efficiently.
As an optimist, I'm eagerly anticipating the apparent changes. That being said, I have to admit there are moments when I've wondered if the Chinese curse "May you live in interesting times." isn't also applicable.
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Divination of patterns ...
"Forecasting the future" is a major preoccupation, probably rooted in a common desire to understand the relationships of Cause and Effect.
This image was just intended to be a New Year's greeting for the start of 2010. Since then, however, I've used it in several discussions about the "volatile" times that this (2010's) decade seems to be characterized by. In fact, at this time the four prime domain vectors of change in Politics, Economics, Sociology and Technology each seem to be accelerating.
At the start of 2014, I needed to expand my "alphabet" of Tags. Inevitably, I became intrigued by Chinese Symbols and learned a bit about the en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Ching and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feng_shui, used for Devination. Now I have a vast new set of Characters and Symbols to work with! Now I'll be able to encode any patterns I'm lucky enough to recognize, very efficiently.
As an optimist, I'm eagerly anticipating the apparent changes. That being said, I have to admit there are moments when I've wondered if the Chinese curse "May you live in interesting times." isn't also applicable.
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