Day 21,649 - 2010 1111

Day 21,649 - 2010 1111
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Thursday
James Oliver Smith, Jr.
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I Ching images

Fu Hsi 11: Estrangement, Opposition, Diversity, Perversion
-------- Fire (Sun, Hearth, Stove, Heat, Energy, Campfire)
--- --- Eye
-------- The Clinging, The Clarity, The Vision, The Divination

--- --- Lake (Sea, Lake, River, Stream, Pond, Reservoir)
-------- Mouth
--------x The Joyful, The happiness, The Expression, The Language

changing towards

Fu Hsi 43: Incompletion, Before Ending, Not Yet Fulfilled, Beginnings
-------- Fire (Hearth, Energy, Heat, Sun, Campfile, Vision)
--- --- Eye
-------- The Clinging, The Clarity, The Divination, The Vision

--- --- Water (Fog, Mist, Rain, Steam)
-------- Ear
--- --- The Abyss, The Danger, The Nourishment

Day 26,649 - Images from the I Ching: Fire [The Clinging] over Lake [The Joyful] (Hexagram 11 - Diversity) --> changing towards [line 1] --> Fire [The Clinging] over Water [The Abyss] (Hexagram 43 - Incompletion) ... Starting off with Sun(Fire) over lake, the first glance is beautiful: sunlight glinting off the surface of a lake ... Bright flecks dashing into nearby woods and the dancing of miriad sparks on the anxious surface of dark water ... But this compelling setting is also one of fragmentation, discomfort and diversity of effects ... The sunlight is splintered into uncountable shards as sharp as dried fish bones ... There is a pattern of noncompliance, distraction and opposing forces within the Lake, beneath the Sun and all that come in contact with the these two entities ... Neither the Lake or the Sun can be ignored, nor can the two be reconciled ... The Sun is warm energy sustaining the Earth's life from above. The Lake is a cold, deep creature that absorbs the warmth of the sun and reflects the light while nourishing the Earth's life from below ... Both are needed and both have dangers to be respected ... The Lake swarms with movement within its currents, it's species of fowl, fish, amphibians, moss and reeds ... Stillness seems to be impossible there ... The sun, on the other hand, seems to be evident only in reflection off of the world of substance ... This range of existence is witness to the diversity of the Universe ...

There is one Yang(Seeking) line dying within this Hexagram, in the first position ... It will give birth to a new Yin(Embracing) line, moving the inner Lake, with its cold, challenging depths into the even more ominous depths of the Water's Abyss ... Water is the most difficult of the primary images (Earth, Thunder, Fire, Lake, Sky, Wind, Water, Mountain) because it forces us to deal with our most profound, obscure and confusing characteristics ... With all of the lines in the Hexagram occupying their opposite, natural positions, this is a particularly uncentering image, one that calls for the utmost of vigilance ... When we are uncentered (like in the midst of an interview for a job or being evaluated for our performance) we are at our most vulnerable ... This period of uncertainty and conofusion seems to be most strongly present just before the completion of some process (project, trip, therapy, etc) ... Just remember that, despite the difficulty that can arise from this juxtaposition of Sun over Water (Fire over Water), both of these fundamental elements of the Universe are also keys to our survival, our sustenance and our substance ... Il Matto ...

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