Day 21,658 - 2010 1120

Day 21,658 - 2010 1120
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Saturday
James Oliver Smith, Jr.
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I Ching images

Fu Hsi 07: Energy, Great Nurture, Accumulation, Great Storage
-------- Mountain (Cliff, Tower, Bulding, Wall)
--- --- Hand
--- --- The Unmoving, The Restfull, The Connecting

-------- Sky (Stars, Planets, Birds, Flight)
-------- Head
--------x The Seeking, The Creativity, The Intelligence

changing towards

Fu Hsi 39: Decay, Remedying, Repair
-------- Mountain (Cliff, Ledge, Tower, Building, Wall)
--- --- Hand
--- --- The Unmoving, The Restful, The History, The Connecting

-------- Wind (Breath, Spirit, Wood, Trees, Inspiration)
-------- Thighs
--- --- The Gentle, The Penetrating, The Spiritual, The Inspirational

Day 26,658 - Images from the I Ching: Mountain [The Unmoving] over Sky [The Seeking] (Hexagram 07 - Energy) --> changing towards [line 1] --> Mountain [The Unmoving] over Wind [The Gentle] (Hexagram 39 - Decay) ... This starting image of Mountain over Sky evokes the setting of a fertile valley surrounded by a ridge of mountains. A valley can provide both nurture and protection ... Mountains can shield the valley from storms and rapid changes in termperature and the valley itself can collect the water from rains and channel it into streams and rivers that bring fresh soils and irrigation for all of the life within the valley. The Sky between the Mountains can be warmer in winter and cooler in summer ... Obviously if humanity has discharged contaminants into that air, the same physics that protect the valley can hold the toxins, keeping them in place and concentrated as the toxins build up ... This is yet another example of how we as human can ignore the lessons of the Universe and turn a positive, supportive and sustaining natural phenomenon and turn it into a cauldron of tragedy ... There is always a price to be paid for ignorance, arrogance and insnensitivity to the world around us and those life forms which whom we share the resources of the Earth ...

There is one young, dying Yang(Seeking) line in this image, and it is at the most core position within the inner(lower) trigram, that of the Inner Sky ... This creative, seeking element that can be so productive as it settles into the valley between mountains is now shifting into the Inner Wind: The Gentle, The Penetrating, The Inspirational ... But this Wind/Wood, the forest, the trees and all of the underbrush that serves as habitat for uncountable species, also follows that cycle of sprouting, life, death and finally decay ... Within the valley, with the accumulated moisture and air there is the mingling of life and death into a tightly woven, symbiotic system that we all depend upon for survival ... The habitat is dependent upon this intimate presence and relationship between life and death and we as humans need to carefully consider how we impact the delicate balance between habitate, life, death and sustainable co-existence, for we are just one of many species occupying this valley into which we were born and everything we do in this valley has an impact, negative or positive, on all other life within the valley. If we change the course of rivers, destroy the diversity of life, or expose the earth to harsh industries and farming strategies we can very easily make the valley uninhabitable by even humanity ... Ultimately, the Universe will have the last word on this, regardless of how destructive we become, for when we as a species are long gone and our cities and technologies have crumbled into the earth, there will be a blade of grass or a cockroach or a silverfish that will venture out from the cracks forming in the ruins we have left behind and the process of life, natural life, will start all over again and the valley nestled between the Mountains will become fertile from the decay of what had passed before ... Il Matto ...

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