Day 26,628

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Thursday
James Oliver Smith, Jr

I Ching images

Fu Hsi 31: Nourishment, Mouths, Jaws, Nourishing
--------x Mountain (Wall, Biulding, Skyscraper, Tower, Boulder)
--- --- Hand
--- --- The Unmoving, The Resting, The Obstacle

--- --- Thunder (Lightning, Storm, Electricity, Energy)
--- --- Foot
-------- The Arousal, The Movement, The Shock, The Energy, The Motivation

changing towards

Fu Hsi 32: Returning, Repeating, Turning Back
--- --- Earth (Ground, Cavern, Shelter, Valley, Canyon)
--- --- Belly, Solar Plexus
--- --- The Embracing, The Creation, The Yielding, The Centering

--- --- Thunder (Lightning, Storm, Electriicity, Energy)
--- --- Foot
-------- The Arousal, The Movement, The Shock

Day 26,628 - Images from the I Ching: Mountain [The Unmoving] over Thunder [The Arousal] (Fh Hsi 31 - Nourishment) --> changing towards [lines 6] --> Earth [The Embracing] over Thunder [The Arousal] (Fu Hsi 32 - Returning) ... We start with the image of Mountain over Thunder, the unmoving, the hand that signals "stop!" as it is raised with the palm exposed, flat, firm over Thunder, the image of movement, awakening, arousal, awareness and action ... The foot wants to move, take action, get something done. The hand (Mountain) wants to resist, hold its place with a tight grip, just as the Mountain will not budge from its place ... but this tension between the outer Mountain and the inner Thunder is like the hand that is shaking the trunk of the tree. The tree will not move from its place, but the limbs will quiver in the midst of such tension. Shaking of the tree causes the fruit to fall and from this fruit comes nourishment. Within the Universe there are many events that result from the tension of opposing forces: mountains rising up from pressure of geologic plates pushing against each other, mountains rising up from the pressure of hot lava pushing up from beneath the sea or upon the surace of the earth, the expansion of ice as it freezes within the cracks of stones, rivers changing course as silt builds up in the turns and deltas of rivers. We are surrounded by natural tension that must be released and the results are changes the Universe takes advantage of. As earthquakes Thunder beneath the mountain, ice flows are broken up and melt in the spring sun. This water fills the streams, rivers and lakes that bring nourishment. When the tension is centered in the Universe and humans react with harmonious adaptation to Nature and each other, life has the potential of proceeding with strength, resilience and abundance. For humanity to resist these forces is to simply fall prey to destruction, disaster and disorder. The only change is at the sixth position, which moves the Mountain to the Earth, just as an earthquake (Thunder) reduces a Mountain to rubble and eventually to the surace of the Earth itself. It then becomes soil that is continually being broken up and prepared for the germination of seeds, the growth of plants and the nourishment of all life upon the Earth. Within us Thunder pulses with energy. This natural drive to survive and thrive allows us, with our creative adaptation to the vicissitudes of the Universe, to nimbly move (Foot) upon the Earth and follow those paths that the Universe has upon up to us ... Il Matto ...