The tiger dances; the dragon mounts the wind and waves;
the principal seat of the true centre generates the mysterious pearl.
Fruit produced on the branch will, in time, ripen;
could the baby in the womb be any different?
South and north accord with the Source [through] inversion of the signs of the trigrams;
at daybreak and dusk the five phases [of the ( Read more... )

Every year, winds carry 40 million tons of dust from the Sahara desert, across the Atlantic, to the Amazon. There, the rains wash it out of the atmosphere, and the minerals and nutrients from the dust fertilize the jungle.

I've been inside a fairy tale called The Golden Key for about a week now. It's the subject of the last essay of my BA. Appropriate, I think.

I have found my golden key. I'm not sure I've fully uncovered the iron chest though. In alchemy, iron is associated with Mars - instinctual affect, drives, aggressiveness. But the casket is a distinctly ( Read more... )

It's been a good day. This morning I woke up from a dream in which the search party found where the bodies were buried in the wintry forest. And when we got back, I met a very pretty girl whose name meant "all is gone wrong ( Read more... )

For two nights now, dream visits from an old friend. The first dream, I ran into her in some in-between time in a darkened diner, caught her up on a shared project and said I missed her. I woke up from that, and then had another where having had that dream was so distressing that I couldn't drag myself to work the next day, preferring a red wine ( Read more... )

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the last two days going to work, I observed these two signs ( Read more... )