Day 22,058 - 2011 1224
Belov-ED Days - 4969
Saturday
James Oliver Smith, Jr.
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I Ching images
Fu Hsi Sequence
Hexagram 15: Decline, Loss, Reduction, Decreasing
01 --------X Mountain (Cliff, Building, Tower)
02 --- --- Hand
04 --- --- The Keeping Still, Barrier, Protection
08 --- --- Lake (River, Stream, Sea, Ocean, Pond, Marsh, Swamp, Well)
16 -------- Mouth
32 -------- The Joyful, Expression, Language
changing towards
Hexagram 16: Approach, Promotion, Approaching, The Forest
01 --- --- Earth (Valley, Canyon, Prairie, Desert)
02 --- --- Belly, Solar Plexus
04 --- --- The Creation, Substance, Foundation
08 --- --- Lake (River, Stream, Sea, Ocean, Pond, Marsh, Swamp, Well)
16 -------- Mouth
32 -------- The Joyful, The Expression, The Language
Day 22,040 - Images from the I Ching: Mountain [The Keeping Still] over Lake [The Joyful] (Hexagram 15 - Decline, Loss, Reduction, Decreasing) changing towards [x.....] Earth [The Creation] over Lake [The Joyful] (Hexagram 16 - Approach, Promotion, Approaching) -- Mountain over Lake is an image of greatness, or success, or that which is considered "permanent" under stress. Its strength is being drained by the depths of Lake. On December 24 we are all brought into a time of reflection, regardless of whether the images are that of the Solstice, with the sun's three day journey into death and resurrection, or the symbolic start of the historical/mythical journey of Jesus. It is the beginning of winter in the northern Hemisphere and the time of darkness, loss of light and often depression. Whatever we each thought 2011 was going to be, we are brought into thoughts about what it, in fact, became.
Rarely is a year, in the end, exactly what we expected, so we need to take stock of how we feel about what actually happened and learn from it. There is always something that we can hopefully apply in the coming year. But we can't do that unless we have some sense of what adjustments could be made, need to be made or that we would like to make.
I started the year realizing that I was probably not going to have another job as I had known it in the past. My forty one years of work (from 1969) starting to shift dramatically. Survival was going to require some new strategies with my eyesight significantly weaker. But at this time last year, I wasn't totally convinced that my career as a software developer was completely over. I still held out some hope that I could perhaps do something with software professionally. But my post-surgery hopes of at least a vision profile as good as before the cataract has pretty much disappeared. Now I have to spend a significant amount of time learning how to accomplish what I want and need to do with vision that does not provide the accuity needed to do what I have been doing for thirty five years, that is, writing software.
I have found that I can still do some programming, design ebooks, publish ebooks and write (but at a speed significantly reduced) with the help of many tools (epaper devices such as the Kindle, in particular). So the mountain of skills that I have accumulated over the past forty years has started to collapse with my vision into the depths of my glaucoma Lake. It is from the depths of this Lake that I will need to rise up into some new reality. I had no idea how dependent we are on our vision for most of what we do. The new pathways with compromised vision are significantly different and require new attention, new skills, new energy and new strategies. This was a very different year than the year I expected and I am turning to the new with a cautious optimism that I am moving in a useful direction, as long as I can avoid running into too many sign posts or stepping in front of a car.
I remind myself that a Mountain can be seen as a protection as well as a Barrier. There is still the mountain of my creativity and the agility of the rest of my body which is starting to step up and compensate for the loss of my eyesight, and my creativity will be central to my efforts in writing. So working from home, writing, digital publishing and ebook design will become my focus for this year. I like to think that although there will always be mountains, there will also be passes through those mountains.
Within the Mountain over Lake image of the I Ching, there is one changing line, in the sixth position, which will move the image to Earth over Lake. This brings to mind the image of an underground Lake breaking the surface of the Earth, becoming visible, accessible and nourishing. I like to think that this new reality of my unvision is erupting into new flows of creative and productive energy in this time of Solstice, Advent and a new Year. I do indeed plan to drink from this new Mountain-over-Lake spring ... il matto ...
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