Streaming into Daylight

This week I'll be using the Brady Tarot, created and self-published by Emi Brady with a companion booklet by Rachel Pollack. The oracle I'll be drawing from is the I Ching, illustrated by Klaus Holitzka with instructions by Marlies Holitzka; it is published by AGM Urania. Today's draws are Judgment and Hexagram 7:

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it. —Terry Pratchett

          A golden eagle holding a viper wakes a colony of brown bats and sends them streaming into the daylight. Judgment is a card of summoning, yet not in the sense of dividing the sheep from the goats, but in awakening us from our personal viewpoints and from the many opinions with which we are constantly bombarded. Once we see the stark nakedness of reality, we are called to act from a new and wiser understanding. Hexagram Seven is given the title 'Collective Force;' while it may refer to a group, in this case it likely involves the many parts of a person working as a coordinated whole. Living from reality instead of an opinion requires the integrity of one's physical, mental and emotional being. It can be tempting to avoid acting if we're afraid we might upset someone. In such a case, it might be best to take the words of Philip K. Dick to heart: "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away."