Day 21,678 - 2010 1209

Day 21,678 - 2010 1209
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James Oliver Smith, Jr.
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I Ching images

Fu Hsi 53: Development, Progress, Partnership, Developing Gradually
01 -------- Wind (Spirit, Wood, Fores, Trees, Breath)
02 -------- Thighs
04 --- --- The Gentle, The Pentrating, The Inspiration, The Spiritual

08 -------- Mountain (Tower, Ledge, Cold, Goat)
16 --- --- hand
32 --- --- The Unmoving, The Restful, The Protection, The Stagnation

no changing towards

Day 26,677 - Images from the I Ching: Wind [The Gentle] over Mountain [The Unmoving] (Hexagram 53 - Development) --> no changing lines ... Trees [Wind] can grow on the Mountainside, but not easily ... It requires a great deal of tenacity and patience for growth to take place on thin top soil, in the face of harsh winds and penetrating cold ... But, nontheless, the trees grow and even survive for many years ... In the Universe, all of life _wants_ to live and it _will_ live, regardless of the context ... But the Universe demands that the life match the environment or life will cease ... Fish typically don't live on land and cats typically don't stay underwater for hours at a time ... If it weren't for the creativity of humanity providing us with the tools necessary to create protective garments, design plows and craft shelters, humanity would die as well, except in a very narrow band of warm lands around the earth ... From the Mountain we learn that development is possible in even the demanding and least rewarding of locations, but we need to recreate ourselves as the environment changes ... Our inner Mountain wants to stay put and continue doing things the way we have been doing them, perhaps for many years ... But the outer wind challenges us, pushes us, drives the elements of our climate into our skin, sucking the air out of our lunges, drying our eyes and lips and draining the heat from our body ... We can't survive such aggressive activity on the part of the Universe without taking some kind of action ... Obviously, this is where we need to find whatever sustenance is within reach and construct an existence within that substance, even if it is meager, unrelenting and mercyless ... There can be no heat without the gathering of wood ... There can be no life in Winter without storing supplies in the summer ... There can be no community without _communication_ ... We need our creative faculties, we need our neighbors and we need our families, just as the tree needs a boulder around which it can wrap its roots to hold on to during the most driving of Winds ...

The fact that there are no changing lines here is a reminder that we cannot count on the warmth and food to arrive soon or without effort ... Thank the Earth for the resources that we use collectively to warm our home and fill our stomachs ... We are never all that far from that gnarled pine tree daring to push up from its stone crib to face the Universe ... Il Matto ...

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