It is our imagination that takes that takes us to places we haven’t gone yet. We live as though everyone in this life is looking for something with everyone coming from a different place. As though coming from the stars, some say that we are here to further adapt to the deities from which we came.
Why reading about the journey’s other have taken becomes so important. Results of their actions, and their own imagination, convey wisdom we are to use that serves as our guide. That we are never alone. Their travails becoming a beacon, or trail, we are here to continue for both ourselves and them as well. As though to be included in the knapsack of our own mind and eternal spirit.
It is easy to sometimes feel superfluous having no hurry or haste without gainful destination. Sometimes feeling that there is a suppression of light but that we still must uphold what we now feel as constancy as I have recently written. What is it that remains constant in our lives, but that spark of eternal energy that has always existed from within us just waiting to be re-ignited. Why is it that there remain contradictions that seem to want to keep us from expressing ourselves to and with the vibrations we are responding to? When it is as the author James Butterworth told us that “the universe is calling”.
Why is it that the suppression of light becomes important. What our gardens have taught us is that what lives in darkness will be limited in its growth. It is because without light our imagination ceases to grow as well. Again, we can see that thousands of years ago there was the coming together of eternal vibrations that we can coalesce around that give direction. But for this journey we need a destination. Some may call it a pilgrimage to capture the light for all of us.
Number 36 of the I Ching
Capturing the Pheasant
A steep incline leads to mountains where a path cannot be found.
False leads lead to turnarounds and endless backtracking. Going around standing up to the wind the elements are but a reminder of the difficulties yet to be encountered.
Finding another way leads to a canyon with water to be barely seen way down at the bottom. Dry from thirst you can only imagine a cool drink. Lost you can only wonder. A pheasant shutters from beneath the underbrush. A quick stone’s throw wounds but does not kill the bird as it swerves to the left as you follow. Pursuing the pheasant you come upon a well-worn path that you have seen before.
Hunger and thirst overwhelm as the valley ahead leads to clues of the bird to be found. Sounds of its crying leads to its capture. In capturing the pheasant, you are suddenly overwhelmed. All things previously left unsaid now are clear needing no further explanation. Somehow the bird has been tied to your hardship and ultimate success.
The dragons are no longer only to be seen in the distance. You feel as though you are removed from the world you have come to know and rely. But there appears to be no mystery as to where you are now directed. You are alive but yet reborn. A quick requinoter reveals the path where food, shelter and water are sure to be found.
An original composition and interpretation of the Chinese Classic the I Ching (36 THE CRYING PHEASANT / Earth over Fire). 3/3/94
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