As Above, So Below
Jan. 20th, 2026 11:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mallorys_cameraWe are in the midst of a severe solar storm, the magnitude of which has not been seen since 2003. The Aurora Borealis is supposed to be visible to the naked eye at my latitude, but I had to use the night settings on my iPhone camera to snap this:
And the Arctic blast is back. It is cold out. Very, very, very cold. Not supposed to rise above 18° F for the next three days.
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As above, so below.
Trump is literally sundowning—a thing that happens to many people with dementia. They may seem coherent during the day, but at night, they lose it entirely, hence Trump's late-night social media posting mania: Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace!
The historical comparison is no longer strictly to Nazis anymore—though ICE is the Gestapo.
No, the historical comparison is more to Caligula.
Assuming human history continues past 10 years—to my mind, not a safe assumption at all—historians are going to be asking the same question over & over again, WHY didn't they DO something? He was so obviously insane.
Honestly, I do not know.
This is very, very difficult to live through.
Because, I mean, what do we do?
Ignore it? Keep living our lives as though it isn't happening?
There's a core of physical dread inside of me; I walk around, trying to ignore it, trying to maintain, but that's increasingly hard to do.
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I have a bunch of errands to do today, plus the gym—bad weather has kept me away from the gym since Thursday last—but I have very little interest in doing them, very little interest in doing anything. Even parking myself in front of a screen & watching mindless television would not distract me from the mind monkey sitting on the Bodhi Tree's branch & chittering.
But ya gotta do what ya gotta do, so I guess I'll force myself to do those errands. As the I Ching reminds us: Perseverance furthers.
And the Arctic blast is back. It is cold out. Very, very, very cold. Not supposed to rise above 18° F for the next three days.
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As above, so below.
Trump is literally sundowning—a thing that happens to many people with dementia. They may seem coherent during the day, but at night, they lose it entirely, hence Trump's late-night social media posting mania: Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace!
The historical comparison is no longer strictly to Nazis anymore—though ICE is the Gestapo.
No, the historical comparison is more to Caligula.
Assuming human history continues past 10 years—to my mind, not a safe assumption at all—historians are going to be asking the same question over & over again, WHY didn't they DO something? He was so obviously insane.
Honestly, I do not know.
This is very, very difficult to live through.
Because, I mean, what do we do?
Ignore it? Keep living our lives as though it isn't happening?
There's a core of physical dread inside of me; I walk around, trying to ignore it, trying to maintain, but that's increasingly hard to do.
###
I have a bunch of errands to do today, plus the gym—bad weather has kept me away from the gym since Thursday last—but I have very little interest in doing them, very little interest in doing anything. Even parking myself in front of a screen & watching mindless television would not distract me from the mind monkey sitting on the Bodhi Tree's branch & chittering.
But ya gotta do what ya gotta do, so I guess I'll force myself to do those errands. As the I Ching reminds us: Perseverance furthers.
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Date: 2026-01-20 05:33 pm (UTC)A question I keep asking myself right along with 'what do we do. People keep telling us 'well, the Republicans are starting to get uncomfortable' but so? They can be uncomfortable but until something is done to stop him, he is still in power.
I've always wanted to see the Aurora...
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Date: 2026-01-21 12:41 am (UTC)Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Reagan's handlers close ranks when he was far into dementia in order
to protect their jobsto make sure Those People didn't get a crack at power to topple the Correct World Order? Maybe it's in the handbook. But Reagan didn't have social media to display his deterioration in.no subject
Date: 2026-01-21 01:59 pm (UTC)They did indeed. I suspect Reagan had a far more tractable personality.
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Date: 2026-01-21 12:41 pm (UTC)COMING TO MEET. The maiden is powerful.
One should not marry such a maiden.
The rise of the inferior element is pictured here in the image of a bold girl who lightly surrenders herself and thus seizes power.
This would not be possible if the strong and light-giving element had not in turn come halfway.
The inferior thing seems so harmless and inviting that a man delights in it; it looks so small and weak that he imagines he may dally with it and come to no harm.
The inferior man rises only because the superior man does not regard him as dangerous and so lends him power. If he were resisted from the first, he could never gain influence.
The time of COMING TO MEET is important in still another way. Although as a general rule the weak should not come to meet the strong, there are times when this has great significance. When heaven and earth come to meet each other, all creatures prosper; when a prince and his official come to meet each other, the world is put in order. It is necessary for elements predestined to be joined and mutually dependent to come to meet one another halfway. But the coming together must be free of dishonest ulterior motives, otherwise harm will result.
THE IMAGE
Under heaven, wind: Thus does the prince act when disseminating his commands
And proclaiming them to the four quarters of heaven.
I did get a moving line for this, number 2: There is a fish in the tank. No blame.
Does not further guests.
The inferior element is not overcome by violence but is kept under gentle control. Then nothing evil is to be feared. But care must be taken not to let it come in contact with those further away, because once free it would unfold its evil aspects unchecked.
The moving line changes the hexagram from 44, the encounter with an unexpected, should-be-weaker force, to 33 which means Retreat. If the I Ching is right, he will have to pull back from the above.
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Date: 2026-01-21 01:56 pm (UTC)Coming to Meet is spot on with the Davos conf.
Retreat is much to be hoped for. Maybe they can award him some kind of trumped-up (ha, ha, ha) Davos Peace Prize. 😀
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Date: 2026-01-23 10:11 am (UTC)