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Seeking guidance from the universe
July/24/2012 Filed in: getting ready
I have been actively reconsidering my earlier decision to not go to Burning Man this year. Ever since I left the playa last September, my mindset has been one of taking a break from my annual pilgrimage to Black Rock City, for a variety of different reasons. No hard feelings, BRC, I just got some other things I gotta attend to! Now, with less than 40 days before the gates to the city open to the masses, my outlook is shifting. Without getting in to details on the evolution of my summer plans, another trip to Burning Man — my fourth in a row, and sixth overall — is beginning to look inevitable, like it wouldn't make any sense for me not to go!
"All roads lead to the Burn," a fellow Burner quipped.
So I've been meditating these past two weeks on the ifs, whens, wheres, whys, hows and whos of it all. One crucial step for me is to turn to the I Ching for consultation and guidance. Here's the hexagram I drew this week:
56: TRAVEL
Fire over Mountain
Travel is developmental when small; if travel is correct, it leads to good fortune.
Travel means passing through and not lingering. Fire is luminous, mountain is still. One stabilizes illumination and does not use it carelessly. One nurtures the fires and transcends the world. Understanding stillness and staying in the proper place, stabilizing illumination so that it is not damaged, when illumination and stillness are used together one can thereby transcend the world while in the world. Therefore travel is developmental when small, and travel leads to good fortune when correct.
Travel means passing through—you should not remain attached to the realm you passed through.
When illumination is called for, then be aware; but while aware still remain calm. When stillness is called for, be still; but when still, remain aware. When illumination and stability, awareness and stillness, are unified, how can there be failure to develop and prosper?
Do you have any pre-Burn rituals? How do you seek sage advice?
"All roads lead to the Burn," a fellow Burner quipped.
So I've been meditating these past two weeks on the ifs, whens, wheres, whys, hows and whos of it all. One crucial step for me is to turn to the I Ching for consultation and guidance. Here's the hexagram I drew this week:
56: TRAVEL
Fire over Mountain
Travel is developmental when small; if travel is correct, it leads to good fortune.
Travel means passing through and not lingering. Fire is luminous, mountain is still. One stabilizes illumination and does not use it carelessly. One nurtures the fires and transcends the world. Understanding stillness and staying in the proper place, stabilizing illumination so that it is not damaged, when illumination and stillness are used together one can thereby transcend the world while in the world. Therefore travel is developmental when small, and travel leads to good fortune when correct.
Travel means passing through—you should not remain attached to the realm you passed through.
When illumination is called for, then be aware; but while aware still remain calm. When stillness is called for, be still; but when still, remain aware. When illumination and stability, awareness and stillness, are unified, how can there be failure to develop and prosper?
Do you have any pre-Burn rituals? How do you seek sage advice?
Looking ahead & Temple 2011
March/31/2011 Filed in: getting ready
Having just passed the Burnal Equinox, beginning our slow slippery slide down the slope towards Black Rock City 2001 and "Rites of Passage," Burning Man is increasingly on my mind. Daydreams of the desert, the dust, the nights full of flame and tribal family reunion that awaits me causes my pulse to rise and heart to pound. I sent out a message to the rest of Get Found today in an attempt to rally the troops and begin the envisioning and intentioning that will create our next generation camp, though it is still early to get much spark out of folks. Thoughts race through my brain: will we have the parachute or sleep tunnel again this year? will we team up with Chillville and the Glacial Facial again, as in 2010, or strike out on our, as in 2009? where's Hekter gonna end up? Highlove? Starpants? do I need to invest in a new tutu? can I show up several days early again, and stay late, to watch the city rise, shine and then disintegrate again?
Ah, patience young grasshopper. All will reveal itself in time, perfectly in sync with how things need to be.
For now, my burgeoning urges will need to be satiated with this crucial tidbit: the design for the 2011 Temple has been revealed!
It is called "The Temples" and looks to be a worthy successor to a long line of sacred architecture creating introspective spaces:
Check out more sketches, volunteer for build crew, donate money and more at http://temple2011.org/.
Here’s a cool pictogram that shows how it will match past temples, both architecturally and dimensionally:
And here’s some temple action from 2007 and 2009, videos by Moontroll:
Ah, patience young grasshopper. All will reveal itself in time, perfectly in sync with how things need to be.
For now, my burgeoning urges will need to be satiated with this crucial tidbit: the design for the 2011 Temple has been revealed!
It is called "The Temples" and looks to be a worthy successor to a long line of sacred architecture creating introspective spaces:
Check out more sketches, volunteer for build crew, donate money and more at http://temple2011.org/.
Here’s a cool pictogram that shows how it will match past temples, both architecturally and dimensionally:
And here’s some temple action from 2007 and 2009, videos by Moontroll:
Sunrise at the Temple of Forgiveness * Burning Man 2007 from moontroll on Vimeo.
Notes from the unfolding adventure