4 - briday, January 29, 195% © strictly personal « A FRIEND of mince recently remarked that he never pays attention to astrology or tarot cards or fortune tellers or the I Ching, anything even vagucly occult. That's a common-enough at- titude, yet he was coming at it from a different direction. It's not that he doesn’t believe’ in the occult. He docs. He’s a quite pronounced spiritual type, very aware of the play of in- visible forces upon the physical world. But he has found if he messes around with any mystical system of any kind, his whole life begins to unravel. The subject came up because | mentioned { had thrown the I Ching a few days before, some- thing I hadn't done in years, | vl would say ‘about one time out of 10, the horoscope hits the nail more or less on the head. And maybe a couple of times a year, there’s a horoscope. that seems screamingly bang on. It averages out to being just enough to keep my attention as the years go by.”’ It was because I] was facing a difficult decision that I couldn’t get a handle on. My wife wasn’t helping me very much. Friends were giving me conflicting advice. Being a Libran, f have trouble making up my mind at the best of times. I dither a lot .... Do I believe that? Do I really think for a minute that because ! was born under a certain configu- ration of stars — not even an astronomically accurate one — that aspects of my personality are predictable? Well, sure, I do sneak a peek at my and my wife’s horoscopes in the morning paper. On days when the horoscope is approximately right, we report it to each other over the phone. The other day, mine said: “Domestic adjustment takes place, works to your advantage.”” Hers said: ‘*You could be asked to han- dle finances of a partner or mate.” - North Shore News Bos HUNTER | ent Fone Well, both predictions happened to come true, although no family member caine forward to confide a secret desire, which was also sup- posed to happen fu me. A credit rating is featured.’ bers said. Well, when is a credit rating not featured? { would say about one time out of 10, the horascope hits the nail more or less on the head. And maybe a couple of times a year, there’s a horoscope that seems screainingly bang on. It averages out to being just cnough to keep my altention as the years go by. With this kind of looscy-goasey attitude toward hard, cold reality, $am naturally prone to giving the benefit of the doubt fo every odd- ball theory that comes along. | take the Jungian view that it all must mean something. The I Ching is an interesting case in point because, over the years, | have had wildly varying results with it, ranging from the undeniable, awesomely accurate to strictly off the wall. On this latest attempt to squeeze some advice out of the old book, | gol a reading of Hexagram 64, titled Before Campletion, which tells me of a change coming ‘with a hopeful outiook.’’ but warns that ‘‘if the little fox, after nearly completing the crossing, gets his tail in the water, there is nothing, that would further."’ | was pleased. it was a great reading and seemed to fortify the drift of my thoughts. And that, of course, was the problem. How much of any oracular reading is what you read into it? Let us estimate 90 per cent. fs that conservative? The great art of staying sane ina world which defies reason, ina universe which defics explanation, is to learn to balance the weirdness against the idiocy, and not let yourself get trapped into too pain- fully trite a belief-system. Much more than this, I don't think you can hope to do. My friend was, of course, telling me politely that he thought it was intellectually feeble-minded to fall back on throwing coins to get a “reading’’ out of an old book. The trouble with any oracular reading worth its salt is that it gencrally sugzests that you react in such-and-such a way. It prescribes action. His point was that once you start making decisions based on anything other than the best com- pilation of facts that you can ob- tain, you begin to drift like a ship on the winds of chance. Reality’s a slippery thing, but you’ve got to try to Stay on top of it. That seemed to be his message. A fair point, well taken! I'll try to stay in the rationalist mode. Except for one [ast peek at my horoscope. Let’s see, for today.... It says — no kidding: ‘Look beyond the immediate, perceive potential, trust ‘psychic impres- sions.’ ”’ : Oh dear. Here we go again.@ ai VSS ee DR. JON O. STROM opps. 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