Day 21,672 - 2010 1203

Day 21,672 - 2010 1203
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Friday
James Oliver Smith, Jr.
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I Ching images

Fu Hsi 38: Well, Source, Replenishing
01 --- --- Water (Mist, Fog, Rain, Storms, Floods, Mud)
02 -------- Ear
04 --- --- The Abyss, The Danger, The Mystery, The Nourishment

08 --------x Wind (Spirit, Breath, Wood, Trees, Forest)
16 -------- Thighs
32 --- ---x The Gentle, The Penetrating, The Inspiration, The Spiritual

changing towards

Fu Hsi 14: Restraint, Limitation, Restricting, Moderation
01 --- --- Water (Fog, Mist, Rain, Sleet, Clouds)
02 -------- Ear
04 --- --- The Abyss, The Danger, The Mystery, The Nourishment

08 --- --- Lake (Sea, River, Stream, Bay, Pond, Dolphin)
16 -------- Mouth
32 -------- The Joyous, The Happiness, The Expression, The Language

Day 26,670 - Images from the I Ching: Water [The Abyss] over Wind [The Gentle] (Hexagram 38 - Well) --> changing towards [lines 1,3] --> Water [The Abyss] over Lake [The Joyous] (Hexagram 14 - Restraint) ... The initial image of Water over Wind can be thought of as moisture and wind intertwined, as would be the case in a well shaft, where the water from the well and the swirling Wind are joined in a kind of mysterious nourishment ... Water nourishes and it mystifies, hiding that which would be completely present, visible and understood in the clarifying light of the sun (Fire), but this is not the case ... If one passes a well shaft there are mysterious echoing sighs and haunting moans from the curious Wind ... We need the well and therefore need to enter this potentially confusing and obfuscating context, but we have no choice ... We must approach and we must drop the bucket and we must draw the liquid nourishment that our bodies demand ... So we enter the dark realm of water and Wind in the Well and we may even shudder as we draw the bucket close to us, before taking it into the house, but we will drink with the nagging thoughts of just exactly what lingers in the obscurity within the Well, the Water and and the Wind ... However, the puzzling journey may offer us more than a cool drink to slake our thirst ...

The two changing, dying lines [1,3] will affect our inner reality and bring us to the Joyful Lake ... Often this is seen and experienced as a desireable change, but this inner joy is overshadowed by the foggy and misty depths of the humid well we have just left and we find little solace in the Lake, much less joy ... The dark currents of the our Water's reality, uncontrolled, unknown and uncomfortable results in a misunderstood stress ... We feel it but have no sense of its origin, its duration or its path ... Throughout life we long for some kind of crystal ball that will reveal the correct path to follow, but the Universe has little intention of relieving us of this feeling of perplexity ... It wants us to feel our way through the fog and find a means through which we can drink of the depths that surround us ... This may be a good time to realign our path, explore new directions and be prepared to feel the terrain directly with our hands ... The light is dim, the road is flooded and the moon is about the rise above the surface of the Lake and speak to us with the fuzzy language of eternity ... Will we be listening? ... Il Matto ...

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