Sentiments At AutumnAnd Sunflower Splendor
I saw the title and laughed for a moment then reached for the large tome titled:
SUNFLOWER SPLENDOR, Three thousand years of Chinese Poetry. Both words, have 'historical' significance to me, each words just sang out harmoniously, and I laughed out loud. "Ricky is going to love this one!" I said to myself, thinking aloud about Ricky's Splendor, which I will have to one day make him write a post to explain. Leave it enough to say, it represented alot for both of us in our Blessing of 22(see previous post) mirror like lives.
The Sunflowers have always been a favorite, and I remembered my girlfriend Luna, and Giovanni's painting of sunflowers(which is the pic above), and various other 'sunflower' memories peppered throughout my life's playing field. Too see both, in a book of poetry, smacked me across the face as there in the Goodwill store I had a flashback to a dream. The dream was about a book, which was called the History of the Peoples of China, a book on the ethereal astral realm, sorta like the Akashic Records, book of life sorta thing, It was written as poems and I found it in a field of sunflowers,, which I have always thought odd..
.... Now I immeditately understood the dream.
So, I get home with the book and Ricky calls, we talk,,,,, yeah,, like girlfriends about our emotions, feelings, melancholiness and such,,, and I told him about the book. And decided to use it like an oracle type device,, and told him it was going to be our I CHING reading for the moment. Being a bibliophile I decided to use bibliomancy, which is the opening of books at random for a verse, word, sentence.................... I landed on this poem. It was so Ricky and Scott in verse, the Curse of 22 turned to the Blessing of 22.
We both were flabbergast at this bolt of lightning from the Universe.....................
One of Eleven Poems by Han Uy (768-824)
#5
Sentiments At Autumn:
Tearing inside there gnaws a baseless grief
a needless vigilance envelops me fearfully
Dews sparkle the tops of autumn trees
insects mourn the cold night's eternity
drawing inward I adopt a new timidity
Plotting my life lament the former rage
Return to the simple and know the tranquil road
to draw up antiquity takes a long rope,
a shallow fame still holds disgrace
but basic joys bring real content
If remorse and blame were left behind
then here would be my hidden retreat.
Tearing inside there gnaws a baseless grief
a needless vigilance envelops me fearfully
Dews sparkle the tops of autumn trees
insects mourn the cold night's eternity
drawing inward I adopt a new timidity
Plotting my life lament the former rage
Return to the simple and know the tranquil road
to draw up antiquity takes a long rope,
a shallow fame still holds disgrace
but basic joys bring real content
If remorse and blame were left behind
then here would be my hidden retreat.
12 comments:
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That's really beautiful. Autumn is my favorite season. I love when things fall into place like that. :-)
I actually thought of you this evening as I stripped dried yarrow leaves and flowers from their stalks. Want some? You can use them for I Ching, I think. I've only ever used the coins, but I bet you know how to use the stalks.
God, that sounds obscene! LOL.
Kate I always can have another Librarian Angel on my side!!!!
I planted and grew a 'special yarrow' for my stalks,, Using the stalks gives a more exacting reading due to the combinations that are possible, its timely,, ,, so I use the coins alot,, chinese ones with holes in them of course with a dragon on one side.... cool old coins...
but the stalks,,,,(and would love to have fifty more from your garden) here is how you do it with them.
* use fifty dried stalks of the yarrow plant and a large clear table space
* set aside one stalk to represent unity, using forty-nine stalks for the remainder of the ritual
* for each of the six lines of the hexagram
o divide and count the stalks three times as follows
+ gather the stalks into the internal linkleft hand
+ split them randomly into two bundles with the left thumb
+ place the two bundles separately, as left and right piles, onto the table
+ take one stalk from the right side pile, hold it between the little finger and ring finger of the left hand
+ pick up the left side pile in the left hand
+ count the stalks from the pile into separate piles of four, until four or fewer remain
+ hold this remainder between the ring and middle finger of the left hand
+ pick up the right side pile in the left hand
+ count the stalks from the pile into separate piles of four, until four or fewer remain
+ hold this remainder between the index and middle finger of the left hand
+ set aside all the stalks held between fingers of the left hand
+ count the number of piles of four stalks
+ if this is not the third iteration, gather all the piles of four together to repeat the dividing and counting process
o after the third iteration, the number of piles of four stalks will be six, seven, eight or nine
o determine the current line of the hexagram from this number
* once six lines have been determined (by repeating the dividing and counting process three times for each line) the hexagram is formed
That just gives you the hexagram.... It is the best tool I have ever came across,,, it will even tell you you are using it too much.... such a wonderful cosmic tool.
OK, I'm totally intreguied now. Special yarrow? Does it have to be a certain kind? Mine is the big yellow kind that's the color of goldenrod.
I agree the I Ching is amazing and I also find it so funny when you do it like 5 times in a row and then you keep getting that hexagram that says: "When a student comes to me with a question I will instruct him, but if he asks me the same question over and over I will not instruct him". Or something like that. LOL. It really seems to talk to you. It's so odd.
I love yarrow. I just discovered it's spirit last year. I was coming down with the flu at work and feeling SO miserable. It was the dead of winter and so cold outside. I dreaded shoveling out my car and driving home in the dark.
But all the time I had this image in my mind's eye of the yarrow I had hanging in my shed. I had forgotten I had dried some in the summer, but when I was getting sick I kept thinking of it. I don't even know why I dried it because I didn't know what it was for. It's like it was calling me.
Anyway, I trudged out there through the snow to fetch it. I made some tea from it and went to bed and when I woke up I felt so much better. I love yarrow now. :-)
Dear Kate, so you have been talking to Yarrow Deva's!!!
Yarrow is very special, the special one I planted is the yellow variety, but I called the Deva's to 'inhance' it a bit, it grows by my front porch beside my beautiful Rosemary bush. I tried to grow the red variety, it only came up after I let a section of the yard,, 'go wild'. I am glad you found the healing properties of yarrow,,, have you a copy of John Lust's THE HERB BOOK, it is very good.?
And Yes the I CHING Definitely will Talk to you,, the verse you remembered was the one I was talking about,,, do you keep a diary of your ''throws of the coins'''? also, I have multiple translations, and love the book called the Illustrated I Ching, which mixes art and the Hexagrams. I do really believe the I Ching is an advanced tool left for us to use,,, especially at this time in earths history.
I love sunflowers. I'll have to pick up this book that you recommended. Can you be my librarian angel? :-)
Nova, I definitely would be your Library angel!!! It really is very good, I am really getting alot from it,, seems that the universe is letting me know that All is Right With The Universe,,, it is All GOOD as I am trying to relearn.
Much Love to you,
scott
My kitchen is sunflowers... and my two yr old ripped a huge hunk of wall border off the wall. Why is he trying to destroy me?
Thanks, Scott! I feel so special!
Have you read The Alchemist by Paul Coehlo? If not, I highly recommend it. It's a beautiful story that's theme is about how the univere conspires to help us in our life's journey.
Love the painting and the intensity of those words.
I agree that you should read THE ALCAMIST if you have not done so. It is a very spiritual book, with much beauty inside of it.
Have a good day.
Hello Nova and Barbara, No I have not read the Alchemist, I thought it just a fictional tale of no merit, but must rethink this I guess and pull out a copy and read it, I know I have sold it before, so I probalbly have another copy somewhere, thanks for the tip.
I have not read THE HERB BOOK, but I'll get it and let you know how I like it. That's the beauty of working in a library. :-)
I never kept a diary of I Ching throws, it was many years ago that I used it. I do remember it being amazingly accurate though. I think a diary is a good idea.
Splendor to follow soon, Ricky
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