Theme: Ride the Tide, Don’t Drown in It
Master Cycles, Time Your Strikes, Exit Chaos
I. Brutal Truth: Every High Has a Built-In Low. But You Don’t Have to Crash With It
“Everything flows, out and in; everything has its tides; all things rise and fall.”
“The measure of the swing to the right is the measure of the swing to the left.”
This is the law of cycles, rhythm governs:
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Markets
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Emotions
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Relationships
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Trends
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Expansion + contraction
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Birth + death
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War + peace
Nothing escapes the pendulum.
But you can rise above the swing if you operate from conscious stillness.
II. What Rhythm Looks Like in Real Life
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One month you're on fire. Next month, stuck.
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Business booms. Then dries.
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High-energy, high-output. Followed by burnout or depression.
This is not personal failure, it’s unconscious submission to rhythm.
Rhythm is law. But reaction is optional.
The master does not deny the wave, he times the strike.
III. Rhythm Applies to All Fields
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Trading → Buy low, sell high isn’t cliché, it’s Hermetic Rhythm
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Creativity → Use highs to build, lows to integrate
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Leadership → Energy, morale, and market cycles must be read like tides
The untrained:
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Panic in contraction
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Overextend in expansion
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Self-sabotage in stagnation
You won’t.
IV. The Law of Neutralization
“The Master of Hermetics polarizes himself at the point of poise, and neutralizes the Rhythmic swing.”
This is advanced.
You anchor yourself above the swing by:
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Operating from your Higher Mind
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Using awareness to detach from emotional reactivity
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Locking into vision, not circumstances
The pendulum still swings, but you no longer swing with it.
V. Strategic Rhythm – How to Weaponize It
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Plan launches on the upswing
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Use down cycles for integration, recon, optimization
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Protect cash and energy during emotional highs, you’ll need them when it dips
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Don’t fight the curve, position within it
This is how kings ride markets, how sages ride moods, how empires expand without imploding.
High-Leverage Insight: If You Know the Cycle, You Can Predict the Outcome
Rhythm isn’t chaos, it’s a clock.
And once you sync with the clock, you see what others are blindsided by.
The field doesn't punish.
It balances.
Your job is to surf the wave, not be swallowed by it.
Direct Challenge
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Map One Key Rhythm in Your Life or Business
Where do you regularly rise and fall?
→ Write the cycle. Look for triggers. Prepare your neutral zone. -
Practice Neutralization This Week
During a high or low moment, pause.
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Time a Strategic Move With Your Next Upswing
Pick a launch, pitch, or confrontation. Wait for energetic momentum to rise, then strike with full force.
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