Day 21,680 - 2010 1211

Day 21,680 - 2010 1211
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Saturday
James Oliver Smith, Jr.
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I Ching images

Fu Hsi 58: Assembling, Gathering, Bringing Together
01 --- --- Lake (Stream, River, Stream, Ocean, Pond)
02 -------- Mouth
04 -------- The Joyful, The Happiness, The Expression, The Language

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

changing towards

Fu Hsi 62: Unity, Joining, Coordination, Union
01 --- --- Water (Fog, Mist, Rain, Sleet, Clouds)
02 -------- Ear
04 --- --- The Abyss, The Danger, The Mystery, The Nourishment

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

Day 26,680 - Images from the I Ching: Lake [The Joyful] over Earth [The Embracing] (Hexagram 58 - Assembling) --> changing towards [line 4] --> Water [The Abyss] over Earth [The Embracing] (Hexagram 62 - Unity) ... We are mid-blizzard here in Minnesota and I cannot keep myself from thinking about the frozen state of the ground as the temperature and the snow both drop, silently orchestrating a quiet calm within the city, on the courtryside and even upon the lakes, rivers and streams in the region ... But the Earth itself, just as our inner Earth, doesn't stop here where we stand today, nor does it extend to the horizon, for the horizon leaps ahead us, sprinting ahead, beyond our grasp regardless of how much effort and time we expend trying to catch it ...

We never do fathom the depth and breadth of our inner earth. Just when we think that we have exhausted our inner resources we wake up in the morning to discover that we have somehow solved that problem that plagued us the night before ... The frozen ground outside, beneath the snow and arctic breeze is connected to the plains, the deserts, the valleys, the canyons and caverns through the never-ending Earth ... connected through the network formed by rivers, lakes, streams and seas, nature's internet ... With the frozen Mississippi just down the hill from where I sit now, the surface itself is crystalline, hard enough to allow passage, connecting the banks and the people who converge on the river's edge, allowing them gather and assemble ... together ... With frozen bodies of water come ancient bridges upon the earth ... Just because our lives may seem to become frozen, stuck within a quagmire of dense marsh, or lodged within thick glacier does not mean that the Universe has locked us out of accomplishment, community, connection ... The internet now attests to this ...

The buses have been halted in Minneapolis ... Concerts, theaters and social events have been cancelled, yet there are people stepping out to help with stalled cars, blocked driveways, impassable sidewalks and depleted supplies ... Even frozen, the Earth finds ways to open paths that humanity can pass to each other ...

There is one old and dying line in the outer reality, where Lake slips into the the Abyss of Water, or as in the case of today here ... snow ... water shapeshifted to the gentle, harsh, soft bite of a blizzard that muffles even the moan of the Universe ... Water, within its tripleness of liquid, gas and ice has unified the world, covering it all ... yielding to the footprints of the adventurous and the blade of the industrious ... but nonetheless the world becomes one beneath this trinity ... Il Matto ...

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