THE MONOCHORD Year card YEAR ________ The eighth node, outside the body: the ear that hears the string. Presence Meditation · Ātman, above the head NUT THE NOTE What this life is being asked to embody and to give, in one sentence. Sounded ____________ Logos is the fundamental. The note is this life’s. LINES COUNTED AT EACH NEW MOON 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 VII Recreation Joy · Sahasrāra VI Nature Reverence · Ājñā V Learning Wisdom · Viśuddha IV Relationships Love · Anāhata III Service Offering · Maṇipūra II Matter Stewardship · Svādhiṣṭhāna I Health Monitor · Mūlādhāra BRIDGE Tuning runs from the bridge up. T S L T S L T S L T S L T S L T S L T S L T S L T S L T S L T S L T S L T S L circle: string in adjustment · line: date of the new moon · T S L: the move a thirteenth moon falls in some years ONE STRING PER MOON At each new moon, count the ledger’s lines by register into the column above. The register with the most lines leads, unless a lower one has also been sounding; then the lower one leads. Write its numeral in the circle and choose the move: tighten, slacken, or let go. A register in crisis takes the string, whatever the phase. THE PHASE Once a season, against the readiness questions of the Way. SEASON 1 phase ___ SEASON 2 phase ___ SEASON 3 phase ___ SEASON 4 phase ___ 1 Awakening · Presence, Health · 2 Foundation · Matter, Service · 3 Crucible · Relationships · 4 Flowering · Learning, Nature, Recreation THE WITNESSES None of them lives inside the practitioner’s own judgment. THE BODY Each quarter: what sleep, energy, digestion and the markers reported. Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 ONE HUMAN EAR Each quarter, one question: what do you hear? Their answer, in their own words. Name ______________________ Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 THE FRUITS At the year’s end: what the life produced, in work and in people. THE NOTE, SOUNDED AGAIN old beside new Whoever keeps the card owns the record. harmonism.io/wheel-of-harmony/the-monochord
THE MONOCHORD Moon ledger MOON ____ OF THE YEAR FROM NEW MOON TO STRING IN ADJUSTMENT MOVE tighten slacken let go THE ACT one concrete act, repeated until the next new moon What sounded against the fundamental today? Each evening, two minutes. Mark the register, write one line in your own words, and stop. A day when nothing sounded is marked clean. DAY DATE I Health II Matter III Service IV Relat. V Learning VI Nature VII Recreat. CLEAN ONE LINE 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 LINES this moon Copy the counts into this moon’s column on the year card. The register with the most lines leads, unless a lower one has also been sounding. Tune from the bridge up. The practice listens and does not hunt. If you find yourself searching the day for faults, the string is being tightened past its pitch: mark the day clean and sleep. Print one ledger for each moon of the year. harmonism.io/wheel-of-harmony/the-monochord