Interpretation of an I Ching reading on the subject of changing the [Psychedelic] Shop into a calm center. "Change is in order. What to do? How do we interact with the system & yet stay high?" The hexagrams Deliverance and Dispersion are used as frameworks for interpreting the current situation. What begins as a modest announcement about repainting, rugs, cushions, and collective participation in remodeling becomes something more revealing: a document of the Haight underground reading its own crisis through ritual language, moral weather, and symbolic transformation. |