Hexagram 51 - Inspired a Poem

[rogue3303]

Hex 51 Arousing. I did a reading for myself yesterday and even though it did not speak to my question about what path to take in my future career it did speak to the events of the day and it inspired this poem. I recevied two changing lines in the first and second place. I hope you enjoy:

Free in 'Shang Di'
The thunder roar of a dragon shakes the earth between my toes.
My bare feet on the black earth absorb the tremor through my bones,

Swirling angst through my guts, creeping now through my trunk,
I feel it slither down my limbs and out through my finger tips.

For a moment there’s terror,
in a flash of white danger.

Then it flows out,
Down though the hills
And then out of sight.

Still alive and my limbs are in place,
Laugh out loud at my still filled cup.

What can stir what’s felt the breathe
of the terror that lives in depths.

No thunder, no dragon, no flash of white light, no hail from the sky can shake her tonight.

The path to her heart has been tread many times,
It’s packed down sturdy for rest through the night.

Dangers come and terrors glance,
They move along, off the path.

“Leave me free to revere ‘shang di’
To shine its light of omnipresence
On my human dark recesses.”

High on hills, in the dusky light,
I hold my latern high above,
enough to see
that I might look ‘down’,
but not for long,
Time will pass,
What I've lost
Will come back to me.

 

[em ching]

I like it! Really felt the intensity of an experience, affecting every cell.
Is it about trying to get close to a woman? Using all your might only to take flight? (from her I mean - couldn't resist the rhyme!) And then is the end about karma - weathering the storm and feeling completely aroused in the moment, but knowing that state cannot last forever?

I've also thought using the Yi would be good for inspiring a story or painting (if you had artists block)

:bows:

 

[rogue3303]

Thansk for reading it Em Ching.

I can see how it might translate to being about a woman. Getting close is terror and thrill all at once. Actually this is about facing my inner demons, staring down the fear within me and how nothing from outside of me can spark fear in me now. Not the most difficult of circumstances. The end is about the changing line in the second place which says that treasures will be lost, to head for the hills, and not to go out and seek the treasures again, that they will come back to me.

That part was about how outward circumstances have caused me much trouble and loss but through this journey that I am on, overcoming fears, acting and doing, that treasures will find their way back to me.

thanks so much for reading.