Naomi
03-04-2008, 11:12 PM
822
I wanted to talk a little about this hexagram. I like it. The placement on the elegant Tree Fields 001 (http://www.abrahadabra.com/treefields001.htm) mirror places it on the 32nd pathway, associated with Saturn. This is appropriate considering the reputation of Saturn as the domain of the reaper. Myself, I've always taken a different approach to Saturn than traditional alchemists. To me it's the domain of hell and divine justice. You get a lot of associations with Time too, but let me put it this way - do you really think Saturn is going to be limited by human misunderstanding of its influence? What needs to be done is a study of Saturn's actual physical attributes gleaned from modern science. Until that is done these kinds of alchemical theories will remain dusty and outdated. I don't want to go into that right now though. Saturn is Satan himself to me.
The path of the universe connects earth to sky, likened to a bridge between the physical and the astral. I am of the opinion (thanks to m1thr0s) that the astral is as much "physical" as anything else, but we don't understand the mechanics much at all really. It may not be another dimension or plane at all, rather a state of mind produced by focus on the ethereal aspects of nature. It may be that it is heightened awareness or balance of logic and intuition itself brought to bear on observation and accruement of personal growth.
From what I understand looking at the opinions of various netizens, this hexagram is seen as a negative influence. It's related to the ninth month which is said to be the season of the harvest. How curious then that it's pathway is associated with Saturn in traditional alchemy.
The hexagram is called unstable, the single yang line at the top is being overtaken by the 5 yin lines below it, it's falling.
At this point I want to instruct myself on an ulterior viewpoint. If we take the archetype Siva who is closely associated with time due to his marriage to Kali (as Parvati) who is the goddess of time, we see in his stance of The Nataraj, where he crushes a dwarf beneath his foot (associated with ignorance) an alternative view of splitting things apart. The dwarf, as a symbol is associated with earth, and materialistic viewpoints in general, dovetailing nicely with our placeholder for hex 23 on The Path of the Universe hovering about Malkuth (and Kether - Malkuth all sandwhiched in between there) Siva balanced perfectly, just as the yang line appears to balance (precariously) above the five yin lines.
Another aspect (that I find intriguing) is the relationship between nine months of the aftermath of sex and human gestation rates. You know, there's really nothing bad about being split apart to have a baby except that it hurts, for one thing, and it's usually pretty messy, otherwise one could definately view it as a creative process. In other words, I think the hexagram has been falsely translated from the original unsolicited binary form.
Yin, the receptive is enmassed below the yang line like a bunch of nothings all lined up to get beat down by the encroaching yang, I supose Siva is the only sort of archetype (and others like him) who could handle such a mess with perfect balance and poise.
On the Nu Kua mirror or Tree Fields 002 (http://www.abrahadabra.com/treefields002.htm), the placement is quite different, 23 is on the path veering off to the left of Malkuth, pathway 31 associated with judgement! In my reasoning I always use Saturn as the purveyor of illness and suffering in magick as it does it with the skills of a judge and not a butcher, I reason that this is the only way to do curses right since one cannot weigh karma on a global scale at all, even if you know a person well.
So, all in all, an interesting little exploration, I wonder what the other hexagrams are up to on the tree...
note: the hexagram graphic is m1thr0s, I used it and hope he doesn't mind because my stylus is still lost and I am feeble artistically without it, I'm not going to get out the calligraphy paper either...
I wanted to talk a little about this hexagram. I like it. The placement on the elegant Tree Fields 001 (http://www.abrahadabra.com/treefields001.htm) mirror places it on the 32nd pathway, associated with Saturn. This is appropriate considering the reputation of Saturn as the domain of the reaper. Myself, I've always taken a different approach to Saturn than traditional alchemists. To me it's the domain of hell and divine justice. You get a lot of associations with Time too, but let me put it this way - do you really think Saturn is going to be limited by human misunderstanding of its influence? What needs to be done is a study of Saturn's actual physical attributes gleaned from modern science. Until that is done these kinds of alchemical theories will remain dusty and outdated. I don't want to go into that right now though. Saturn is Satan himself to me.
The path of the universe connects earth to sky, likened to a bridge between the physical and the astral. I am of the opinion (thanks to m1thr0s) that the astral is as much "physical" as anything else, but we don't understand the mechanics much at all really. It may not be another dimension or plane at all, rather a state of mind produced by focus on the ethereal aspects of nature. It may be that it is heightened awareness or balance of logic and intuition itself brought to bear on observation and accruement of personal growth.
From what I understand looking at the opinions of various netizens, this hexagram is seen as a negative influence. It's related to the ninth month which is said to be the season of the harvest. How curious then that it's pathway is associated with Saturn in traditional alchemy.
The hexagram is called unstable, the single yang line at the top is being overtaken by the 5 yin lines below it, it's falling.
At this point I want to instruct myself on an ulterior viewpoint. If we take the archetype Siva who is closely associated with time due to his marriage to Kali (as Parvati) who is the goddess of time, we see in his stance of The Nataraj, where he crushes a dwarf beneath his foot (associated with ignorance) an alternative view of splitting things apart. The dwarf, as a symbol is associated with earth, and materialistic viewpoints in general, dovetailing nicely with our placeholder for hex 23 on The Path of the Universe hovering about Malkuth (and Kether - Malkuth all sandwhiched in between there) Siva balanced perfectly, just as the yang line appears to balance (precariously) above the five yin lines.
Another aspect (that I find intriguing) is the relationship between nine months of the aftermath of sex and human gestation rates. You know, there's really nothing bad about being split apart to have a baby except that it hurts, for one thing, and it's usually pretty messy, otherwise one could definately view it as a creative process. In other words, I think the hexagram has been falsely translated from the original unsolicited binary form.
Yin, the receptive is enmassed below the yang line like a bunch of nothings all lined up to get beat down by the encroaching yang, I supose Siva is the only sort of archetype (and others like him) who could handle such a mess with perfect balance and poise.
On the Nu Kua mirror or Tree Fields 002 (http://www.abrahadabra.com/treefields002.htm), the placement is quite different, 23 is on the path veering off to the left of Malkuth, pathway 31 associated with judgement! In my reasoning I always use Saturn as the purveyor of illness and suffering in magick as it does it with the skills of a judge and not a butcher, I reason that this is the only way to do curses right since one cannot weigh karma on a global scale at all, even if you know a person well.
So, all in all, an interesting little exploration, I wonder what the other hexagrams are up to on the tree...
note: the hexagram graphic is m1thr0s, I used it and hope he doesn't mind because my stylus is still lost and I am feeble artistically without it, I'm not going to get out the calligraphy paper either...