(10-11-2012, 07:45 PM)Spaced Wrote: It's like I'm surfing on an oil slick and it takes all my concentration just to keep my balance.
That's right! Oil may be slick but you could train yourself to be a great surfer by being a great balancer and flowing with the forces!
In this form of (chinese) divination, water could mean having the choice/freedom to flow where you choose to flow. There is a sense of freedom to choose your path. Or being like the water in the ocean... vast and moving together as a whole etc. etc.
It could also be experienced on the mundane level, as having a water-event on the date.
So I guess we could choose how to use the power of "water"

Time is crumbling slowly it feels like