That Waiting Vibe Again

A warrior knows that he is waiting and what he is waiting for; and while he waits he wants nothing and thus whatever little thing he gets is more than he can take.

Carlos Castaneda

Around this time of year I tend to look at the numerology for the upcoming year. I have been putting this off, not feeling motivated so do. This partially because of a strong feeling of waiting, of being in some kind of holding pattern. There are a number of other things which I might do, but these too are kind of in abeyance because I am waiting.

On the health front my recovery is possibly slightly ahead of “normal” schedule. The physio last night has already introduced the notion of end of sessions. I am walking, by and large, like a biped without crutches.

The weird thing is that Tibetan vibe. It is hanging around at the periphery of consciousness. It was particularly strong around 3 AM last night, like something was going down. In the previous post I speculated. Should anything materialise along those lines it would be a game changer and make for an unusual 2026.

Being earthed and grounded I can see a number of small jobs I can do in the garden. There are some moles which need to be trapped here in the far West of France. I told the gardener yesterday that I might trap them soon. There are some plants which need to be cut back and a plumbing job upstairs. The shops will be shut for Christmas tomorrow.

One trajectory is simple and uncomplicated.

There could be other low probability trajectories which may come in by way of a quirk of fate, a curveball.

The feeling is that something is up. I am waiting for something, I do not know what. Whatever it is, it is not my move.

I have had feelings like this before, a hint of incoming, and nothing has materialised. On occasion stuff has happened.

If you are powerless like me, there is very little in my power. I can do very little. My influence and impact on the world is tiny and local.

A bit weird though this feeling of waiting…

Can a Jaguar Changes Its Spots?

People can have very fixated images and perceptions of others. They may shoe-horn others into well out of date perceptions. How they remember them can be stuck in a time warp.

We are watching a TV programme with Eddy Redmayne acting as The Jackal. Even though he is not the same actor, I keep wondering where Wellard or Well Hard the dog is. At the moment in the series  highly armed MI6 agents have just been engaged in a  massive shoot out near Budapest. The sort of thing that is likely to be an international incident but which serves for dramatic purpose.

Not everything makes sense.

It is very easy to get typecast in the eyes of others. There could be a wildly inaccurate narrative circulating which sticks like glue. Once a visiting Japanese postdoc. famous for his drinking prowess back home decided that he wanted to out-drink me competitively because he had heard my legend. We started drinking after I had already had six pints of Stella unbeknownst and unrevealed to him. I stopped drinking a bit before him and he claimed victory. So there may be a story back in Japan of how he beat a champion drinker in the UK. Not all stories are true but it does not stop their circulation.

People can have their perception locked, very locked.

Many are not a lot like they once were. Some people change. It is said that the warrior’s path is one of transmutation,  transformation and transfiguration. This suggests that the change may be more radical than a cosmetic tinkering.

I’ll wager were I to meet people I was acquainted with two decades ago they would initially interact with me using that out of date context, if they even remembered me at all. There is and was a whole side of me of which most were completely unaware. One student thanked me for my 9 AM winter morning lectures because they gave them a chance to catch up on their sleep in a nice warm lecture theatre. Others have told me that they doubted that boring dead-pan me could be any use to them when they were unwell. After half an hour of quiet chat they were off to see the GP for a mental health consultation and had provisionally booked a session with the on campus councillor.

Few would imagine that I have had dreams of shaman and Jaguars.

Jaguar Dream Link

People struggle to a) notice and b) fully accept change in others, particularly those who they think they know well. Radical change is considered impossible. After all a leopard cannot change its spots.