Greek Financial Crisis

Today (25 April, 2010 / 21:50 DST/Berlin) I did a Wen Wang Gua divination about :
What will be the impact of Greece´s financial problems on Europe/EU?

I got the following hexagram (btw the classical Yijing text of Hex 27 is interesting as well):

Subject = Greece
Object = Europe

Day: Si/Snake
Month: Chen/Dragon

Void: Tiger, Mao
Gua Shen: You/Rooster

#27

................ ___ brothers (Tiger/wood) -->...... _ _ wealth (Dog/earth)
................ _ _ parents (Rat/water) ..............._ _ officer/ghost (Monkey/metal)
Subject.... _ _ wealth (Dog/earth) - ->........... ___ offspring (Horse/fire)
............... _ _ wealth (Dragon/earth) ........... _ _ offspring (Horse/fire)
............... _ _ brothers (Tiger/wood) - -> ..... ___ wealth (Dragon/earth)
Object..... ___ Parents (Zi/water) - -> .......... _ _ brothers (Tiger/wood)

Moving lines: 1st, 2nd, 4th, 6th line

Lots of movement here, but in any case the EU is actually drained a lot by it. Greece heavily controls the European Union while the EU supports the creditors, but it looks like pretty weak support. (Brothers mirror the creditors of Greece, who actually try to control the country). But the Creditors will finally be supported by Greece.


Antje

Friends, Enemies and Acquaintances

"We have so many *friends* online that we need a new word for the true ones..."

This has been an advertising claim of a German newspaper and it hit the nail on it´s head. Recently I was looking for the English translation for the German word "Bekannte" and it´s "acquaintances". This word I have rarely seen it in the internet, obviously it´s not used very often. I wonder why.

The word acquaintance seems to be a proper term for people we hardly no in person if at all but we see/meet everyday somewhere online, via emails, Facebook or all other networks. The only network I have encountered so far where someone can distinguish between different "levels" of relationships is Plaxo.

Then I searched now for the official definition of the word "friendship". And I have found some interesting stuff in the wikipedia archive:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendship (English)

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bekannter (German)

The articles explain different cultural definitions/background of friendships. Intensity versus number of friends... etc. The words honesty, truth and trust play a big role....

In a way it´s great not to rank people, but to name someone a friend is not much of a compliment anymore and dismissing someones request for a link becomes sometimes almost an enmity declaration...

Strange world...


Antje

Luo Shu on the Wall

Today I installed my newest Feng shui art as a cure for my "Yellow Emperor" 5 mountainstar. Before the installation I filled up the pics with a special energy ritual. I will see what results I will get. I must admit I found that the installation was the most difficult. It´s pretty hard to get all into a line. It´s not perfect yet, but I didn´t want to hit in too many nails, so I was using white fibres for the lower pics.

This is how it looks like:





Antje