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I've always wondered why Wilhelm sees the thunder as a manifestation of God within the earth - he says it twice. First he says it bursts forth from the earth and then in the judgement he says it is the manifestation of god within the earth. That smacks of earthquake to me not thunder. Yet the Hex is Chen - thunder so what's with wilhelm?
Lucia
I was inside when this humdinger touched down. My friend just happened to be standing outside my door with his camera lens facing in the direction of this thunderbolt. The shock of it cause him to push the shoot button.
There's nothing like the peeling and cracking sound of nearby thunder and lightening to kick your sudden awareness up a notch or two.
Shaken! Not merely stirred. The wise examine their hearts.
There's nothing like the peeling and cracking sound of nearby thunder and lightening to kick your sudden awareness up a notch or two.
I was inside when this humdinger touched down. My friend just happened to be standing outside my door with his camera lens facing in the direction of this thunderbolt. The shock of it cause him to push the shoot button.
Later that evening he emailed the shot to me, and out of curiosity I turned up the contrast of the image.
Do you see what I see? Shocks repeated! Bear in mind, the image is untouched except for increasing the contrast and cropping.
I got a little carried away (appropriate for 51, I suppose) and cranked up the gain even more for my hex. 51 image.
Hexagram 51
Arouse
Shaken! Not merely stirred. The wise examine their hearts.
Dear all:... Chen represents the eldest son, who seizes rule with energy and power ... It is symbolized by thunder...
-Wilhelm
震 / Phonetic: 辰 chen2 / Signific: 雨 yu3 yu4 rain...
to shake / to tremble, as an earthquake / to excite / to shock / scared / terrified / (now rarely) thunder / a thunderclap / the 4th of the Eight Diagrams...
辰 remnant ... Man handling an Egyptian hoe...
the fifth of the twelve Terrestrial Branches ... / early morning / a time / fortune / luck / a heavenly body - the sun, the moon and stars
R. Sears at: http://www.chineseetymology.org/Cha...aspx?characterInput=震&submitButton1=Etymology
震 ... 辰 (Type 1 Phonetic) twitching body of a bivalve + 雨 rain/natural phenomena → natural phenomena characterized by twitching / trembling → thunder; shake; tremble; vibrate; quiver; shiver → wield (power); use violence → display (one's talent) (← wield) → obtain good results.
辰 ... S/B is a pictograph of a bivalve, the body of which twitches. Dragon (as the fifth sign of the zodiac) and 7 A.M. to 9 A.M. are borrowed meanings.
An Etymological Dictionary of Chinese Characters
Interpretations by Lawrence J. Howell and Hikaru Morimoto
at: http://www.kanjinetworks.com/tnetwork/TAN.html#TANx02
A yang line develops below two yin lines and presses upward forcibly. This movement is so violent that it arouses terror. It is symbolized by thunder... causes fear and trembling.W/B
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." John 1:1
During my twenty year journey into the Christian faith, which I left eight years ago, this verse of John has always represented the trigram Chen to me.
"God comes forth in the sign of the Arousing": when in the spring the life forces stir again, all things comes into being anew. "He brings to perfection in the sign of Keeping Still": thus in the early spring, when the seeds fall to earth, all things are made ready. ~ hex 27
To keep the heart still (52) while in the thunderous presence of the Word, that is the challenge and task of 51.
If God wears a kind face, beware. If (as Trojan so indelicately put it) he scares the crap out of you, then you can laugh! ..assuming there's anything left after "the stuff" is burned away.
Dear all:
I apologize, I was out of my work because my wife was at the hospital due to a complication of cronic enphicema. Maybe it's not too late for some apports.
The token of H.51 is 震 zhen4 that means «shake / shock / quake» but not «thunder» whose character is 雷 léi. Both have the «rain» component atop.
In words of Wilhelm / Baynes, H.51 doesn't speak of THUNDER, that is only a symbol, H.51 speaks of HUMAN BEHAVIOR, the use of ENERGY and POWER by somebody who reports to the FATHER, say the BIG SON.
There are two etymologies for the 震 zhen4 character:
1) RAIN over MAN LEANING OVER A PUNCTURE TOOL (♂), maybe meaning SHAKE:
2) RAIN over OYSTER / COWRY (♀), maybe meaning QUAKE,
Now we can understand some things of W/B version:
ONE GUY REPEATEDLY SHAKING TWO GIRLS OVER HIM.
TWO GIRLS REPEATEDLY QUAKING BECAUSE A GUY THA'S BELOW THEM.
Maybe H.51 speaks of INTENSE HUMAN EXPERIENCES like those provoked by THUNDERBOLTS, EARTHQUAKES, or even to see a METEOR SHOWER or RAIN OF STARS. All GIFTS of the NATURE.
(to be continued)
Yours,
Charly
I'm not trying to poo poo Christianity here but when we look back at "Word" it is interesting to note it comes to us through In the etymology of and history of the word Wyrd. Surfing the Net I stumbled upon“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word was God.”
That’s interesting meng! We actually studied this phrase during a healing class (quite a heated discussion!!). We didn’t focus on the Word of God as much as the Voice of God (dual currents of energy)….and by God we were told this meant ‘the part of us that creates the world of our conscious experience. What we were working on at the time, was the human nervous system.
The fear and trembling engendered by shock come to an individual at first in such a way that he sees himself placed at a disadvantage as against others. But this is only transitory. When the ordeal is over, he experiences relief, and thus the very terror he had to endure at the outset brings good fortune in the long run.
Janice,
Interesting that the thunder can travel upwards. Also looking to the picture of Bruce there are two light flashes, one from Heaven to the Earth and one from Earth to Heaven. So thunder is the communication between the Father and Mother represented through the Son.
There is also light - visual( fire - heart) and sound -audio ( water - kidney ).
And with the first line, trigram thunder changing in earth. Everybody is hearing the birth of the son.
Hexagram 51 is also associated with the spring equinox. This theory was represented by Meng Hsi and Ching Fang both living in the first century B.C. They made the theory of correlation between the "breath" of a year. 60 hexagrams are used for the 24 periods. Than there are 72 periods in a year.
4 hexagrams (29 - 30 -51 and 58) are connected through the equinox and Solstices.
So all the lines of these 4 hexagrams have a connection with half a month.
The first line of 51 has the connection with the middle of the second month.(the Sun comes up in Aries, the clock time from 5 till 7 in the morning)
the second line with the beginning of the third month, third line with middle of third month etc.
Frank
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word was God.”
That’s interesting meng! We actually studied this phrase during a healing class (quite a heated discussion!!). We didn’t focus on the Word of God as much as the Voice of God (dual currents of energy)….and by God we were told this meant ‘the part of us that creates the world of our conscious experience. What we were working on at the time, was the human nervous system.
A letter in the alphabet is a glyph of a sound-pattern……a sound pattern then is the motion. When we look at the nervous system, we can begin to understand the Alphabet actually is connected with various patterns of the nervous function that make up our conscious experience. A letter becomes a potential state of motion or perception and when combined together we get a flow of different images and events that make up our present reality. These of course can be chanted, spoken or screamed into being.
ravenstar
Psst, Frank, how does TCM and this image influence each other?
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