Day 21,686 - 2010 1217

Day 21,686 - 2010 1217
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James Oliver Smith, Jr.
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I Ching images

Fu Hsi 12: Living together, Partners, Intimacy, Mutual Subordination
01 --- ---x Thunder (Storms, Electricity, Viper, Explosion, Lightning)
02 --- --- Foot
04 -------- The Arousal, The Movement, The Catalyst, The Shock

08 --- --- Lake (River, Sea, Brook, Ocean)
16 -------- Mouth
32 --------x The Joyful, The Happiness, The Expression, The Language

changing towards

Fu Hsi 43: Incompletion, Before Ending, Not Yet Fulfilled, Beginnings
01 -------- Fire (Hearth, Warmth, Volcano, Sun, Campfire)
02 --- --- Eye
04 -------- The Clinging, The Clarity, The Vision, The Divination

08 --- --- Water (Fog, Steam, Mud, Mist, Rain, Snow)
16 -------- Ear
32 --- --- The Abyss, The Danger, The Mystery, The Nourishment

Day 26,686 - Images from the I Ching: Thunder [The Arousal] over Lake [The joyful] (Hexagram 12 - Intimacy) --> changing towards [line 1] --> Fire [The Clinging] over Water [The Abyss] (Hexagram 43 - Incompletion) ... Outer Thunder over Inner lake ... In this image we are surrounded by electric energy ... It is a context of potentially charged encounters, relationships and circumstances ... It can also be overwhelming, but with appropriate centeredness this could be an experience cherished ... In the presence of the Inner Lake (The Joyful ... The Happiness) this scintilating energy could lead to intimacy, great pleasure or prehaps even ecstasy ... This could be sexual, professional or the result of come creative act ... But it is also about death: death of self, death of security or death of independence; for intimacy, joy, ecstasy and pleasure often (if not always) bring bring with them vulnerabilities. In an initmate relationship we expose our deepest and most raw self, unvarnished, without the airbrushed public persona we may have contrived for consumption by the world ... What happens when someone else, some organization or the culture at large is allowed to see this revealed self? Are we ready for the potentially charged reaction? Are we sufficiently centered within our inner Joyful Lake to allow ourselves to be viewed in this way. Is our inner self different than we have allowed the world to see before? Or is it pretty much an accurate presence ... This would be so much easier if our families, religions and societies were tolerant, inclusive and supportive of self-actualized lives.

Unfortunately, the outer lightning is interpreted as "temptation" or "evil" to be avoided, shuned or even banned. This culture of criticism, judgment and coercion simply drives us into isolation, and it is within isolation that abusive behavior is allowed to occur unchecked. It is in the context of fear that ignorance becomes manifest and we don't really understand how to interact ... We don't develop those skills that we need to empathize, synthesize and harmonize ... Are we like the Joyous Lake consuming the energy and rain of the storm to become swollen with the presence of new waters of life? This is a most productive compromise within nature? ... or are we an isolated, rigid, inflexible, solid planet on a collision course with another planet that will result in the destruction of both? ... Intolerance, absolutist perspectives and self-righteous judgement only result in the destruction of the abused, and possibly also the abuser (through retaliation or from the collision itself). It is the soft, supple and flexible willow that will have a better chance to survive a tornado or hurricane and it is the rigid, unyielding oak that will snap terribly and fatally in the same conditions ... Be invigorated by the external lightning, not electrocuted!

There are two aging and dying lines in this initial image, that will give rise to a shift from Outer Arousing Lightning to the Clinging Fire and the Inner Joyful Lake to the Abyss of Water ... Fire over Water ... In this transition we are remided that if we allow the Catalytic force of thunder to overwhelm our inner Joyful Lake, we could be taken away from our center, with the outer Fire being consumed by our inner Water, depression, obscurity, confusion, fog and mist. It is important to remember that when the fog has become dense and we find ourselves disoriented and confused that the inner Joyful Lake is still there, just as the sun, the outer Fire, is still shining in the sky, above the banks of fog ... Don't let the shift in the circumanstances of life throw us off balance to the point where we lose perspective ... We still need to move forward towards that outer Sun (Fire), even if we can't see it at the moment ... It may be that the fog (as has been observed by others) could allow us to take on new perspectives ... There are times when we need to back away and allow the Clarity of the Eye to use the mysteries of the mist to explore in paths ... There are always potentialities braided with the risks in the Universe and there are no guarantees either way ... Take the step forward, for staying in one place may (and usually is) just as dangerous as taking the step ... Il Matto ...

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