Day 21,634

Day 21,634 - 2010 1027
Belov-ED Days - 4,546
Wednesday
James Oliver Smith, Jr

I Ching images

Fu Hsi 16: Approach, Promotion, Approaching, The Forest
--- --- Earth (Ground, Canyon, Plains, Cavern, Valley)
--- --- Belly, Solar Plexus
--- ---x The Embracing, The Creation, The Centering, The Yielding

--- --- Lake (Sea, River, Stream, Ociean, Pond)
-------- Mouth
-------- The Joyful, The Happiness, The Expression, The Language, The Voice

changing towards

Fu Hsi 12: Living together, Partners, Intimacy, Mutual Subordination
--- --- Thunder (Electricity, Lightning, Shark, Leopard)
--- --- Foot
-------- The Arousal, The Shock, The Surprise, Motivation, The Drive

--- --- Lake (Sea, Stream, River, Pond, Brook)
-------- Mouth
-------- The Joyful, The Language, The Expression, The Happiness

Day 26,634 - Images from the I Ching: Earth [The Embracing] over Lake [The Joyful] (Fh Hsi 16 - Approach) --> changing towards [line 4] --> Thunder [The Arousal] over Lake [The Joyful] (Fu Hsi 12 - Intimacy) ... The sign of Earth around us indicates a substantive force that engages us, joins with us, fuses with us, an intimacy that seeps into every aspect of our being ... This connection with Earth (those people and things around us) can bring us joy ... This is the main purpose of language, our bodies, our five senses ... that is, to connect with that substance, which in turn gives _us_ substance ... so to engage this is signicant at every level ... we must be willing to approach and be approached in order for this intimacy to occur ...

and the change? ... it is in that which surrounds us ... in the fourth position, at the base of the context in which we live ... The Earth becomes thunder, the life force, the drive, the initiative that binds us one to the other ...

Our inner, joyful Lake remains and sustains the exuberance of the shared experience ...

but with intimacy comes a loss of some aspect(the Thunder, the life-force) of our selves, which is consumed by the depths and the consuming presence of the Lake ... This is the price of intimacy, but it is also the rich texture of it ... for this is a new life, a new way of esisting ... one that is shared and communicated ... one in which all of our senses explode within an array of sensations ... be intoxicated with it! ... Il Matto ...