A large fruit

[candid]

Hi Mary,

Actually to me, 23 is something of a sacred gua. It was, in fact, my destiny reading. Since I've received it as such, its become up to me to find a creative manner in which to live it. So yes, I search for the positive expression of it, but neither can I deny the personal devastation either. But I believe life finds a way if we allow it time. The tree may become gnarled and distinct for its trials but its roots are strong and deep.

What else can we do but make the most of our life?s difficulties? What are the alternatives? I see people with the most incredibly horrendous challenges who become real champions. It makes my life look like a tea party in comparison. Where do these people get their strength? Is there a greater example of honor or courage? And let's not forget those who pour out themselves on behalf of the challenged. Theirs are the wings of angels and the hands of God.

C

 

[cal val]

Hi Gene...

I have some input this morning regarding 23... and the large fruit. 23.5.6 to be exact.

I have a few minutes to spare before I run off to an appointment with death... and hopefully a wonderful rebirth into a wonderful life... so I thought I'd share it with you.

The question was "To euthanize or not to euthanize."

Love,

Val & her beloved Rocky

 

[cheiron]

Hi Val

Sorry to hear your news.

While I ponder this reading...

23:24 - Stripping the corpse and Return

23 Is supposed to be about the ancient ritual of stripping the corpse of flesh after the death to release the spirit.(I know you will know this).

And

Then there is Return...

Hmm...

--Kevin

 

[cheiron]

A small offering celebrating Rockies journey ? and to the person who sought to find the best way to make the transition easier.

23.5.6 >
Staying with the idea that 23 is based on the ritual about death and spirit release from stripping the flesh?

Separating the flesh from the spirit.

Wilhelm, ?The thought here, taken together with that in the next hexagram, shows the connection between decay and resurrection.?

Though it can be applied metaphorically to many things ? seems more appropriate like this here.

Mountain above the Earth? the end stop.

The lower trigram as well as the inner two trigrams are dark, gestative, nurturing, K?un? all sinking downward into the earth, where it belongs.

The upper trigram Ken stands still? Ken marks the end of the cycle.

The top, and only, bright line is rising away and has already left the moment of tis time. (First and last lines are generally considered to be before the time of the hexagram and after it respectively.)

Here for me is the small bright spirit rising away from the dark earth.

Line 5
Could the shoal of fishes and the court ladies all be represented by these 5 dark lines?

When this line changes it leads to Sun ? Contemplation or View; whose nuclear hexagram is 23 / Po! For me there is a profound truth in the powerful energy exchange in these two. The evocative lines of the Zagua or 10th Wing are that View / Contemplation ? ?Partly Gives and Partly takes?

As we contemplate we gain insight, maybe even wisdom? Similar to some thoughts on the Hx.11 thread? We loose many things too? foolishness? Attachment? Ignorance? maybe paradoxically we gain and loose innocence at the same time?

But the kernel of this hexagram, its potential - is 23/ Splitting Apart - Separation ? Sublimely perfect.

Returning to the 5th line
In this context ? Gather the little slippery fishes of life, thread them by their gills (organise them) (Remember the energy of Contemplation is resonating in this line too) Karcher points to the fact that fishes are a symbol of fertility and says that there is fertility in this stream of events.

?Favour comes through the court Ladies? ? This is the last dark line above the others? I suspect they are the palace women? but the meaning is clear ? they are all on the side of the one here at this time ? They give their support - Even love?

This line five is the last line before the separation, the last moment.

Line 6
Taking Bradford?s Matrix Yijing (My selection of the words?)

?The plump fruit is not eaten
The worthy one gains a carriage
The petty folk tear down, scavenge, loot their own hovels.?

Or from the Small Images: (Again Bradford ? Thank you)

?Noble young one gains ground
The multitude are those who serve to uphold (the conveyance)
The common people tear down their own shacks by the end.?

Here the departing bright one has the means to make the spirit journey
There is yet a beautiful fruit to be eaten.

(It is too far out on the branch to be reached by earthly folks (Thanks Brad ? again!)

Here the foolish or unknowing people simply see it as a tearing down of the earthly things ? the loss of the basic (the body? The earthly life?) which is merely like slums and shacks.

This line changing takes us to 2/ K?an again? heheheh? the deep dark gestating Womb ? Enfolding and gestating the new?

This reading leads to?

Hx. 8 ?Grouping / Calling and Gathering the Spirits? (Karcher 2003)

The trigrams show water dissolving the outer world (upper) and the gestating earth as the nature of the time for the inner world of the being.

The inner trigram is Hx.23!! ? The potential for this time is exchanging energy with that time.


The Judgement reminds us that life is perpetual? yield to the below
(Yield to the earth energy in the lower trigram? ? This is the way of the Earth?)
This way is steady and firm.
Don?t miss this time ? or the Dao will close.
(Don?t disrupt this?)

I think the Yijing spoke clearly here. First with an explanation of the time and then with a reminder of the nature of our perpetual cycle and its importance as a flow of spirit, energy and time.

Lighting a candle for that spirit

--Kevin

 

[cheiron]

Appologies

The above edited to clarify.

--Kevin

 

[cal val]

Thank you Kevin. That is very beautiful. And it's very important to me. He was in my life for nearly 23 years. He is sorely missed.

Love,

Val

 

[cal val]

Dear Kevin, Jeff, Portakal And Dharma...

Thank you all so much for your kind words. Rocky was my companion for nearly 23 years. He would have been 23 years old on June 13 this year... give or take a day or two.

He was by no means the perfect pet. He was macho and possessive and created various problems... err challenges over the years. But he loved me and I love him. In fact, my daughter didn't like him much at all when she was growing up because he pretty much ignored her attempts at affection. Instead, every evening he would hop into the kitchen window and sit there until he saw my car pass as I pulled into the garage. And then he would jump down, run to the front door and dance and prance until I came through it.

One day friends were visiting me with their two year old son, Andy. I sat on the floor facing the three of them on the sofa and Rocky walked back and forth across my lap rubbing me lovingly (or so I thought). He rested after awhile and laid down near me. Soon, Andy hopped down off the sofa and onto my lap, which I thought was very sweet. But then, leaning against my chest, he started swaying from side to side and saying, "My mommy, my mommy." His mother and I were both startled and reminded him that I wasn't his mommy...that she was... at which point, he got off my lap and sat back down beside her on the sofa. A few minutes later, Rocky got up from his resting place near me, jumped up on the arm of the sofa, sat there staring at Andy for awhile...and then, with closed paws (claws in not out) slapped him across the face. Of course, I didn't understand that Andy and Rocky were communicating beautifully... Andy being a bit of a tease... until then.

Although I'm feeling the freedom to move around now that I didn't have these last few years because he required a lot of special care in his old age that no one else could give him and from all the extra time and expense required for that special care, it's still difficult to come home from work and not see him waiting at the door to greet me.

Love,

Val

 

[dharma]

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