Day 21,684 - 2010 1215

Day 21,684 - 2010 1215
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Wednesday
James Oliver Smith, Jr.
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I Ching images

Fu Hsi 56: Modesty, Moderation, Humbleness
01 --- --- Earth (Ground, Valley, Canyon, Plains, Desert)
02 --- --- Belly, Solar Plexus
04 --- --- The Embracing, The Creation, The Yielding, The Centering

08 --------x Mountain (Ledge, Stars, Tower, Planets)
16 --- --- Hand
32 --- --- The Unmoving, The Restful, The Protection, The Obstacle

changing towards

Fu Hsi 64: Nature, Earth, Creation, Responding
01 --- --- Earth (Valley, Cavern, Plains, Desert, Canyon)
02 --- --- Solar Plexus, Belly
04 --- --- The Embracing, The Creation, The Yielding, The Centering

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

Day 26,684 - Images from the I Ching: Earth [The Embracing] over Earth [The Embracing] (Hexagram 56 - Humbleness) --> changing towards [line 3] --> Earth [The Embracing] over Earth [The Embracing] (Hexagram 64 - Nature) ... With the ground covered with snow and arctic winds slicing into any exposed skin I am reminded how fragile we are as a species ... Without our technology, our creativity and our skills to construct clothes, houses and cars we would not be able to live anywhere but in the most lush areas of the world, where the temperature remain within a few degrees on either side of 70 Fahrenheit ... We are Mountains in many respects and we arrogantly think of ourselves as such ... Our inner mountain gives us that sense of entitlement in which we believe that the world is ours to bend and blend as we will, without regards to our _real_ relationship to the Universe all of life within it ... But Earth over Mountain clearly illustrates that even the highest and most substantive of mountains rose up from the Earth and are continually eroding back into the Earth ... As I get older and my eyesight fails I feel a fragility that just didn't seem to exist when I was twenty ... This extreme cold, with Water's snow and ice that once was intriguing, even beautiful has become yet another collection of obstacles to account for when I need to leave the house ... As the crumbling mountain, adjustments are made by the day and I watch the young with amazement, in much the same way that I gaze in awe at a snow-covered mountain peak ... The United States is now finding out that its inner Mountain is crumbling too, as it always has been, since its birth ... but we can no longer deny it ... The rest of the world is catching up, caught up or passing up ... The world is littered with the ruins of empire Mountains called back into the Earth and the bodies of living, breathing, strong, vibrant humans that once were young, bouncing with energy and strong ...

The one Yang(Seeking) line in this image is changing, moving our inner Mountain to Earth ... The Embracing, Receptive, Yielding Earth ... Within it are the seeds of the new, even under the snow, the ice and the Wind ... I like the fact that it is down there waiting, supporting, feeding and always ready to remind us of where our home is, who we are and the role we play in the lives of those around us and in the Universe ... In the billions of years that the Earth has given birth to Mountains and then consumed them, long before there humans around to emulate and behold them, many species have come and gone as well, but the Earth continues its cycles from which we ourselves originated... It is from this that I receive comfort ... Regardless of what our politicians, scientists and corporations do, the simple fact of their relative insignificance is manifest in the fate of Mountains and the foundations that exist within the Earth ... As someone who has spent a lifetime working with computers, cars and many other devices of human creation, one thing has been consistent ... That which is from Nature, created from the Earth, wants to live (and _will_ live) ... That which is created by humans wants to die (and will at the first opportunity) ... Il Matto ...

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