{"id":63249,"date":"2026-01-17T07:21:35","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T13:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=63249"},"modified":"2026-01-17T07:31:36","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T13:31:36","slug":"63249","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=63249","title":{"rendered":"En-Theos"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Yule and the 1% Crescent of the Moon of New Beginnings<\/p>\n

Shabbat gratefuls: Joe’s visit. Ruth, too. Shadow. Tom and his week. Cold. 11. Prostate cancer. Its many treatments. The Dog run. Nathan. Natalie. Dr. Josy. Broncos v. Bills. Oh, my. Minnesota proud. Melt ICE. Politics. Poetry. Mary Oliver. Billy Collins. Rilke. Longfellow. Yeats. Eliot. Coleridge. Whitman. Dickens.<\/p>\n

Sparks of Joy and Awe: Ruth<\/p>\n

Life Kavannah: Wu Wei\u00a0 \u00a0 Shadow, my Wu Wei mistress<\/p>\n

Year Kavannah: Creativity.\u00a0 \u00a0Yetziratiut.\u00a0 \u00a0\u201cInspiration exists, but\u00a0it has to find you working.\u201d\u00a0\u2015<\/em>\u00a0Pablo Picasso<\/em><\/p>\n

Week Kavannah: Daat.\u00a0 \u00a0 The Bridge Between Mind and Heart<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>“If Chokhmah (Wisdom\/Inspiration) is a seed<\/b> and Binah (Understanding\/Analysis)\u00a0 is the soil<\/b> that develops that seed into a plant, Da’at<\/b> is the nervous system<\/b> that carries the vital life force from the brain to the rest of the body. It is the point of transition from “thinking” to “being.””<\/p>\n

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Tarot: Four of Vessels, Boredom<\/p>\n

I take this as a caution, a yellow light. As I’ve been doing research for both Superior Wolf 2.0 and trying to figure out a cadence and a method for political research, it’s easy for me to get caught in the paralysis of analysis. Or, stasis. i.e., boredom.<\/p>\n

One brief shining: Interesting, the dynamic tension between da’at and the four of vessels; if anything can connect inspiration to understanding, it’s da’at, linking the mind to the heart, ensuring the electricity of inspiration does not dissipate, become blocked, a blockage we could call boredom, “He’s lost in thought.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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I may have mentioned before that I get enthusiasms. Can be an idea, a person, a political movement, a poem, a book, a line of thought.<\/p>\n

In using notebooklm<\/a>, for example, I started out with two notebooks: political commentary and Superior Wolf. I meant to focus my thinking, my inspiration in those two areas, creating two channels which both limit my reach and give me space to expand within those boundaries.<\/p>\n

Worked for a week or so. Then, I thought, hey, I could use a notebook for Talmud Torah, so I made one. Then, why not one for managing Shadow Home. OK. Opened that. Well, there’s always the Great Work. Yep. One more. And, hey, mussar, too. While I’m at it, let’s throw in one for Ancientrails. See what I mean?<\/p>\n

En-theos. Enthuse. To find a feeling of godly grace, curiosity. Chinese culture and other tradition oriented cultures, too, I imagine, see curiosity as a danger, drawing us away from daily life, from the proven path and into the unknown. Uncertainty. Resulting, in this cautious view, either in stasis, boredom, or more seriously, rebellion.<\/p>\n

My library contains a literary record of my enthusiasms. Latin. Ovid. The Classics. Poetry. Minnesota. The Civil War. The Arts. Travel. Fiction. Celtic history and myth. Horticulture. Military history. Philosophy. Christianity. Judaism. Dogs. Depth Psychology. And, more.<\/p>\n

I have often gotten stuck at the en-theosing stage. Too much learning, analysis. Too little action. The result is a time of stasis, of stuckness. Or, boredom. In these moments da’at could have helped me, yet I never consciously focused on this character trait, how to bridge enthusiasm and planning, understanding.<\/p>\n

I’m glad the four of vessels showed up on the day I switched my week kavannah to da’at. It encourages me to not get stuck in the ideas, the inspiration. And, it gives me a character trait I can practice for doing just that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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