After the Winter Equinox : : Yin Feng Shui : : Musings

So many things are networking and connecting around me. It is great!

We just passed through the most yin/female/cool/dark/nurturing/watery day of the year. The year when female energy is at its strongest. The best time for males and male aspects of yourself, to regenerate and energize (The (TCM) Traditional Chinese Medical term is TONIFY -- to strengthen.) I did the tai chi form this morning and paused to wonder at the softness. I know that tremendous power and force can come from that softness, or bgetter, flow through that softness. I was like water this morning.
Later when I put more wood on the fire, my hand moved through cool ash at the edge of hearth. So profoundly soft. Crushed velvet has nothing on ash. Nor does talc. More air than solid and amazingly yielding. Softness. There is such strength in understanding how to yield. With intent to do so. I am reminded of the Taoist phrase about moving a tremendous weight in motion with a small well placed force.
Yin. In both feng shui and TCM circles "yin" also refers to death and the dead. Like this sleepy wintertime. Extreme inactivity. An absence of life force. Everything I do for clients is YANG Feng Shui. Feng Shui for the living. There is another world of feng shui for the dead. The proper or improper placement of headstones and plots has implications and effects on generations.
Similarly, the family into which you marry, OR the family karma you unite with your own has tremendous implications. You don't marry a single isolated individual. You bring together two separate streams that would not flow together without your actions and choices. [Still think arranged marriages are stupid? Better left to emotional whimsy?]
There is so much just below the surface if you know what to look for. And when I touched the ash, I was reminded, humbled, because it is like touching every human being who has ever been. We all go there eventually, our physical bodies. And it reminded me that I have only so much time in this body. Then I must move on. Just as winter leads into spring. Extreme Yin inevitably transforms into young yang, OR the yin recedes and the yang becomes more and more dominant.
There are so few practitioners who do yin Feng Shui. The responsibility for future generations is too big for most people. Like playing with GMOs or setting national environmental policys and regulations. Who is truly qualified to do such things with an understanding of the responsibility to generations. Sometimes I forget the significance of what I have learned. I take it for granted. Like it is common knowledge. It is not. And I am so grateful for what I have learned and continue to learn.