Divination - buy it or don´t buy it...

Nearly two weeks ago I saw a wonderful, but quite expensive evening dress in a shop in Berlin and immediately I fell in love with it. As I had just the minute bought before already another dress, I felt even blocked to fit it.

But in the following days I couldn´t stop thinking about this wonderful evening dress and fit it for the first time on Monday 15th. I told the shop assistant I will come back to let have a friends look on the next day at it as well before making a decision.

Additionally I did a Divination using Plum Blossom Method on Monday 15th June. And I got hexagram 57 with the 5th line moving:

"Find fortune in persevering. it is advantageous to forget about remorseful events. Although the beginning is not favourable, the endin gis. Before taking action, ponder for three days, Upon taking action, watch the result for three days. Carefully think through your decision before putting it into action. While the outcome may bring difficulties in the beginning, you have not made a mistake. Monitor the progress of your decision." ("The Complete Idiots´Guide to the I Ching", by Elisabeth Moran and Joseph Yu, 2002, page 200")

The story goes on that my friend had no time on Tuesday, so I went to the shop for a second time and fit the dress, sending a picture via mobile/cell to my friend. but did not buy it this day. So on the next day my friend came with me to watch the dress. After long pondering I bought it finally now on Wednesday evening (17th June), after stressing the poor shop assistant for three days. :-) So far no regret, I even found now already the right shoes...


Antje

Programming of the extracelluar matrix of cells and human beings

Not long ago I read an article about the Mosuo – a matriarchical society in China.

Men don´t have much or any power positions, marriages do not exist , romance seems to be most important. The families are led by females. Men do live with their mothers.

The Mosuo are an interesting example of the relativity of what is “good” and “bad” according to Chinese Astrology and Astrology in general and if a persons character fits into the environment or how a character plays out at all within the “given” society.

When something is appreciated by the environment then usually there is well being while the “wrong” environment might cause stress which creates suffering and sickness.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,627363,00.html

http://www.chinaculture.org/gb/en_curiosity/2004-05/11/content_47041.htm

BWT Maybe we can compare a human being with a cell – both have to communicate with their environment for making a living. For a human the environment is the family/society etc. – for a cell it´s the extracellular matrix.

Actually researchers experiment with cells, observing their behaviour within different artificial extracellular matrixes. The result so far is that cells definitely communicate with their environment and more - the environment can let them die or let them grow and flourish. The extracellular environment can obviously change the genetical program of the cell.

In some experiments the researcher could change the “job” of a cell (tissue cell/fibroblast) slightly, while changing the environment only a little bit. So maybe if the change of the environment is completely against the basic function of the cell - the change of the programming fails and the cell dies.

This research group also got interesting results of testing reaction of human skin cells within different levels of stress (frequencies).

So Feng Shui could also be considered as changing the "extracellular matrix" of a human being, a change of the environment with the result of reprogramming the behaviour of a human being.

Antje