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James Oliver Smith, Jr.
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I Ching images
Hexagram 35: Cauldron, Sacrificial Vessel, Establishing the New, Cosmic Order
01 ——– Fire (Sun, Hearth, Vision, Lightning)
02 — — Eye
04 ——– The Clinging Fire, Clarity, Visions, Divination, Knowledge
08 ——– Wind (Spirit, Breath, Wood, Forest)
16 ——– Thighs
32 — — The Penetrating Wind, The Gentle, Inspiration
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Day 22,035 - Images from the I Ching: Fire [Clinging, Clarity] over Wind [The Gentle, The Penetrating] (Hexagram 35 - Cauldron, Sacrificial Vessel, Establishing the New, Cosmic Order) - The image of Fire over Wind brings to mind a cauldron boiling with the substance of roots, meat, vegetables and spices … materials that will bring new life, energy, warmth and hope to those invited to the table. Beneath the cauldron, wood (Wind) is burning (Fire), fanned by the Wind (breath, spirit) … This is an interactive, participatory process … The act of eating requires energy at all levels: digestion, harvesting, preparation. Wood and food needs to be cultivated, gathered and prepared for the cooking and the consumption. The complete cycle requires the presence of community and the assimilation of many facets of the environment in which a person lives …
None of us, as individuals, are in a position to do it all … physics, biology, culture and community ensures that the rains will fall, seeds will germinate, plants will grow, animals will flourish, food will be harvested, distributed, prepared and cooked. We need insects, seasons and weather cycles to provide the raw materials we use to build the cauldron, the hearth and the building in which we install the hearth. We need community to gather, harvest, organize, build and prepare the structures we live and eat within and the plants and flesh we place within the cauldron.
The cauldron is the culmination of all our preparations and the center our communities. It is over the cauldron that we learn to communicate with others and share what we have learned individually and collectively. The cauldron represents the order that we, as a species, weave into our existance and our relationship to the universe. It is around the cauldron that we tell our stories, grow our mytholodies and envision our potentialities. It is around the cauldron that we discover the wealth of our experience and our spirituality. And it is around the cauldron that we discover perspectives, tools and relationships. Whatever is new was conceived around the cauldron. This is because we cannot go for long without the cauldron. We are tethered to it like the air we breath (that fans the flame of the cauldron) and the water we drink, that absorbs, simmers and steams the contents of the cauldron.
For each new leg in our individual and collective journey’s we need to ensure that we have partaken heartily from the cauldron, in preparation for that which lies ahead, in new adventures, new relatioships and new perspectives.
Because there are no aging/changing lines in the corresponding hexagram, this could be a period of stability. Take advantage of moments like this to reflect on the paths we have walked and prepare for the paths yet taken. So stir the cauldron well and take the next step when the belly is full, the legs are rested and the head is clear.
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