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In the I’Ching the gua structure of hexagram 29 is Water over Water. The yin of the yin. A seemingly bottomless pit. Water cannot flow until the cup runneth over. Despair is a natural response in the Absymal depths of 29 and perhaps this fear of our vast power keeps us engaging half-heartedly to distract us from the truth. The truth that as a vessel of consciousness we contain multitudes that lie outside of moral dictation and structure. The ways in which we’ve been told to apply our energy in the world that was deemed valuable or….productive.
But Leo season has shown us that we ARE royal. A highness of exact solar impact. This expression of life force within, is ferocious and potentially painful. It threatens to destroy all that does not honor its truth. How then can we kneel before the magnitude of our spirit and honor this fully? Commitment to protect build a reality that honors this knowing. That honors this light. A hearth that can hold and be fed and feed and warm the weary.
This is not about domination, it is about self-mastery in serving what is good and whole. That which brings light. Protecting innocence. Being in service to collective sanctity. This is earthen walls of Virgo’s service holding the fire of Leo in reverence.
29 will bridge us from Leo into the Virgin’s sanctuary. A place of Holy Remembrance. An altar of service and devotion. 29 invites us to recommit to ourselves as Inner Sanctums of wholeness and light. That nothing done in apathy is done. Our feeble attempts to live up to external expectations keeps us estranged from our fire. From ourselves. In order to construct the dream in which we seek, we must commit our body mind and souls to its work. A process to honor, a destination to rejoice. The sanctuary is the process.
We must construct the Heavens we experience, less they disappear before our very eyes. In order to build Heaven, we must remember her in our Mother Night. In putting the body to rest, we enter portals of rebirth and remembrance. This dreamscape of rest in the body, weaves together the reality of spirit. In the dream worlds of rest. Found by yin of yin. Water over water. The womb of life. The sanctuary is built to dream, to rest, to remember.
As mentioned in this episode:
THE HERBAL ASTROLOGY Oracle - Adriana Ayales (https://animamundiherbals.com/products/herbal-astrology-oracle-deck?_pos=1&_sid=76abe11cf&_ss=r)
The Definitive Book of Human Design - Ra Uru Hu, Lynda Bunnell
The Gene Keys - Richard Rudd
The Complete IChing - translated by Taoist Master Alfred Huang
Yin Mysticism - Brynna Magnusson (https://a.co/d/ccycRQo)
Rainmaker: You Could Be The Water - Clarissa Pinkola Estes (https://www.bodyandsoulsanctuary.com/poetry/rainmaker-you-could-be-the-water)
Observation Notes
Hexagram 29 : The Abysmal, Darkness
Notes: Water over Water. The Mother Night. This hexagram amplifies the trust needed in the sacral’s cyclical nature. Once a cycle runs course, darkness follows. Darkness as rest and nourishment. Water over water is yin of the yin. Water cannot flow until the cup has been filled. This is the energy to fulfill a cycle but is not the direction or purpose (46).
Gene Key 29: The Shadow of Half-Heartedness, The Gift of Commitment, The Siddhi of Devotion
Notes: “Amino Acid is Valine. Valine helps keep the body healthy and functioning under stress. Similarly to 4, this is about how energy from external input is put to use. How we begin cycles is the nature of their full becoming. Commitment is the seed of good fortune. Luck as an ideal of attuned sacral response. Half-heartedness is dishonesty in that there is no full response to engage the process. The Gift expression is guided by full response and is not concerned with its outcome, it enjoys the process of unfoldment.
Gate 29: The Abysmal, The Gate of Perseverance
Notes: “The deep within the deep. Persistence despite difficulties has its inevitable rewards.” “A constant affirmation of life.” The gate details the energy of cyclicality that may no longer be there. The translation is more positive but seems to imply the impending end that must be disengaged in order to correctly commit your energy. “Always eager to say yes”. Encourages Strategy and Authority to correctly engage.
Questions to consider:
* In what ways can I deepen my devotion to the path that life is already unfolding for me?
* What happens when I treat each “yes” I give as sacred?
* How does commitment to one step at a time reveal a bigger journey I couldn’t see at first?
* Where in my life do I notice myself saying “yes” without truly meaning it?
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