Day 21,674 - 2010 1205

Day 21,674 - 2010 1205
Belov-ED Days - 4,585
Sunday
James Oliver Smith, Jr.
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I Ching images

Fu Hsi 44: Release, Relief, Liberation
01 -------- Earth (Ground, Vally, Canyon, Plains, Desert, Cavern)
02 -------- Foot
04 -------- The Arousal, The Movement, The Electricity, The Catalyst

08 -------- Earth (Ground, Cavern, Desert, Canyon, Valley)
16 -------- Ear
32 -------- The Abyss, The Danger, The Mystery, The Nourishment

No changing lines

Day 26,674 - Images from the I Ching: Earth [The Embracing] over Earth [The Embracing] (Hexagram 64 - Nature) --> no changing lines ... It's an Earth day! ... A time for centering, grounding and finding comfort in oneself, exactly as the Earth has given birth to us, without modification, without pretense, without expectations beyond who we are ... The Universe is complex and ever-changing ... We are continuously in a state of change, but the changes need to follow a natural order, a natural sequence. To do otherwise places us in places and circumstances in which we are incapable of functioning. But first we need to have some sense of what _is_ natural for _ourselves_, which will be different than what is natural for everyone else. Our culture, our religions and our institutions want to believe, and to enforce, some notion of uniformity that is (in their mind) "correct", regardless of whether it is natural for us. This results in pressure to conform and _be_ whatever that _correct_ thing is. How we respond to that pressure is significant for our own centeredness, our own sense of who we are, our own awareness of the physical and emotional state in which we were born. Until we are grounded in ourselves, in our _natural_ selves, we cannot listen to our bodies, our spirits or the Earth, much less the Universe ... Earth is creation for us, for all of us, for all that humanity creates and its terrains are all mapped within us: valleys, caverns, canyons, deserts, plains ... Within those terrains are places that speak to us and in which we feel at home and feel in _self_ ... Find those natural places ... Like the Earth, they will embrace us and sustain us ... Listen to the Earth, not to those who have forgotten the Earth ...

There are no changing lines today and Earth holds us close, especially in the aftermath of Thunder and Water, storms, unrest and upheaval, as was the case in yesterdays images ... Return the Embrace of the Earth ... Il Matto ...


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