Daodejing

I think that a lot of the time, the acts of cleromancy gets together too closely with idea of control.  I am trying to reduce this as much as possible, but it is more difficult that it seems.  

I find that my desire to know the future and to thus attempt to achieve some kind of control seems to get in the way of living my life.  The control that I desire is not the freedom of choice that I think, but instead an attempt to "get ahead of the curve" for actions out of my control.

I am thinking that my going back to the I Ching and the Tao Te Ching is that it seems to me to less of a means of predicting what is coming my way than it is a means of focusing my thoughts on the aspects of personality/consciousness that I need to work on.  

I think that us old boomers need to think about our approach to the world.  We are still trying to control the levers of power as we are heading to the exits.  The world is changing and the lessons that we can teach are probably not applicable to the changes that are coming.  I think that instead of being his councilors, we should emulate King Canute himself.