The entry below of the I Ching talks about thunder and stirring or shaking things up. Becoming alert to our surroundings when storms come our way. Knowing how to respond as we stay with and keep to our inner strength, remaining clear and steady as to how to respond to the storm overhead. What we are here to learn is that all things must pass, and we should be ready to continue on our journey and move on.
Thunder and rain in the Spring serve to inspire us to find and follow-through with new beginnings. It’s our nature to look first to the attributes that have always been with us. They give us something to build on. Why refreshing our memories becomes so important to the growth of our spirit.
Sometimes it is like needing a bolt of lightning or clap of thunder to get our attention. As though spirit is close by bringing the Spring rain as the ancients knew and told us in stories long ago. Staying close to what nature is here to teach us. Shaking up old beliefs and bringing us forward to something new. What may appear and frightening to some gives reasons to rejoice by others.
Number 51 of the I Ching
Coming to Know Your Friends
While looking for three friends you have made along the way (character, strength and sincerity), you search places within yourself where they seek refuge from the coming storm.
The elements are again keeping your direction open to increasing challenge. Rain and thunder, hail and lightning all pummeling down from overhead brings what should be your inner resolve out into the open and into question.
Stopping to reflect on past events and encounters brings to the surface minor brushes with disaster and misfortune. As well as, losses of fame and fortune that now seem only as simple lessons to be learned. Like the prevailing wind, however, your resolve to keep to your inner chi has kept you out of harm’s way. Always continuing onward only for simply each moment to come. Discovering oneself along the way is why the journey is made. Storm clouds and inclement weather are simply to be withstood. Knowing that like all things they too will pass.
Looking for comfort you find character in places not normally found. Keeping again to yourself you discover fertile territory not yet traveled. As with an oxcart that leaves ruts in a well-worn road for all easily to follow. You find strength.
Not by lifting the huge boulder, but in finding patience found picking up small rocks after it has been broken open. Finding sincerity is like keeping a bird in a cage. Trapped within itself, it stays cooped up. Set free it will fly away to find its wings in the clouds with dragons.
Come to know your friends and travel unimpeded with them once again.
An original composition and interpretation of the Chinese Classic the I Ching (51 THUNDER / Thunder over Thunder). 3/19/94
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