Monday 9/27 - Lunar 8/21

Day of the Fox. Foxes can become mediums for the unresolved dead, calling unsettled debts to the surface. Wild impulses and sad mishaps help us grow up (after taking us down). Today is one of those days when we can expect to be bitch-slapped for our poor choices. Perfect time to exercise impulse control. If you want to have sex with your neighbor, wait. Those unicorn taco holders you found on Amazon? Don’t buy them. At least, not today.

crows on a fence
counting the birds I’ve flipped

Tuesday 9/28 - Lunar 8/22

You’re a veritable cornucopia. Spend your wealth, in whatever form it takes. Pay genuine compliments. Celebrate the achievements of your friends. Buy the unicorn taco holders, then make a feast for your Mexican ancestors. (Yes, I know crunchy tacos are American.) It is also the perfect day to move house.

beneath the pine trees
I listen for happiness
porcini nation

Wednesday 9/29 - Lunar 8/23

Wait your turn and consult the oracle. Gi-gong the gossip away, and let grudges go. On Danger days, my kids statistically get injured more. So, be deliberately graceful, physically and otherwise. If you don’t want to go to the thing you have, cancel it.

how the butterfly moves!
the burner left on again

Thursday 9/30 - Lunar 8/24

Ming says, “Art is the demonstration of confidence, dignity, and wisdom. Be artful.” Both hexagrams suggest waiting on whatever it is. Use your intuition. Artists live in the pocket of synchronicity because they’re always listening for the next move.

the butterfly effect
all I knew was
I liked standing near you

Friday 10/1 - Lunar 8/25

Today kicks off October and the hexagram Assembly. The coming week brings our family together before the ancestor altar to put spiritual, social, and material resources in order. Success is “found in the blood.” We’re the natural unity of living and dead, but it might take some awkward recalibrating to register the unity. The foliage of the earth is falling away. As material earth diminishes, the spirit world crescendos. The veil thins.

outer hebrides
singing songs into the wool
women are the loom

Saturday 10/2 - Lunar 8/26

Success comes from working together as a family at home. If you feel you have no family, go outside and look at the pigeons. Notice the geranium leaves turning red in the sidewalk cracks. The wind is a person, too. There is no protagonist who should have a family; there is only family.

what the hermit knows of touch,
so does the orchid
only everything

Sunday 10/3 - Lunar 8/27

Key words from the indicators are shut, void, wait. These, too, are conditions in which we can flourish. We can place the whole world in our good hands with just a bit of rest. Challenging cultural norms does not need to be combative. It can look like a nap, like saying “not today,” like replacing guilt with a sense of responsibility to our ecosystem, which thrives on rest.

deep in the country
the thousand voices of night
so this is quiet