Day 21,675 - 2010 1206

Day 21,675 - 2010 1206
Belov-ED Days - 4,586
Monday
James Oliver Smith, Jr.
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I Ching images

Fu Hsi 63: Splitting, Peeling Off, Deteriorating, Flaying
01 -------- Mountain (Tower, Wall, Ledge, Pass, Building)
02 --- --- Hand
04 --- --- The Unmoving, The Restrful, The Protection, The Obstacle

08 --- --- Earth (Ground, Valley, Canyon, Plains, Cavern)
16 --- --- Belly, Solar Plexus
32 --- --- The Embracing, The Creation, The Yielding, The Centering

changing towards

Fu Hsi 61: Contemplation, Watching
01 -------- Wind (Spirt, Trees, Wood, Forest, Breath)
02 -------- Thighs
04 --- --- The Gentle, The Pentrating, The Spiritual, The Inspiration

08 --- --- Earth (Ground, Soil, Cavern, Valley, Desert, Plain)
16 --- --- Belly, Solar Plexus
32 --- --- The Embracing, The Creation, The Yielding, The Centering

Day 26,670 - Images from the I Ching: Mountain [The Unmoving] over Earth [The Embracing] (Hexagram 63 - Peeling) --> changing towards [line 5] --> Wind [The Gentle] over Earth [The Embracing] (Hexagram 61 - Watching) ... The inner Earth lingers on from yesterday with its centering force still intact ... but ... the outer reality has shifted to Mountain, The Unmoving, The Restful ... Earth gives birth to Mountain through the pains of rupture, like a mother gives birth to a new child ... Regardless of how high the Mountain grows it will ultimately erode, slowly sloughing off layer upon layer of crumbling stone as wind, rain, glaciers and streams seek the source of life: Earth ... Even the tallest and most ancient of mountains are resigned to this process ... Perhaps this is why sages and others seeking the wisdom of ages seek the ledges, the high mountain valleys and peaks, places in which the Breath, the Sky, the Wind and even the clarity of the Eye can observe, contemplate and appreciate the totality of the Universe, for the Mountains have seen much of the mechanics of history ... From this point of centering within the inner Earth, we can place our hands upon and within the soil that embraces our feet and feel the pulse of the Mountain, peeling, sliding and splitting as it yields to the call of Earth ...

There is one changing Yin(Embracing) line that is dying and yielding to the presence of a new, young Yang(seeking) line within the outer reality ... Mountain is sliding into the Wind, where the breath reigns, where the spirit traverses the earth and takes in the activities of life upon the Earth ... This outer Wind also is aware of our own inner Earth and observes our navigation within it ... It speaks to us through the limbs and leaves of trees, through a window slightly ajar and even through the rustle of a dried sasola* shrub rolling across the desert floor ... It has many voices with which to whisper wisdom to us, should we be willing to hear ...

[* tumbleweed]

As a child in Tuba City, Arizona I felt the substance of the wind in a way I have rarely felt since ... It spoke to me as I walked towards the horizon into the painted desert and approached a cluster of rocks out of sight from all others ... A small canyon wriggled its way into the sandstone and igneous formations ... The wind sang ... The sand stung my hands and the mushroom-shaped pillars outside gave testimony to the millenia in which the wind carved graceful curves in their mica-studded waists ... I called it "Wonderland" ... Il Matto ...

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