I spen about 40 minutes trying to connect.  I didn't see much at first....a sort of cave in a mountain with stone in front of it and marking on the stone.................

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This looked familiar but I can't place it.  I thought I saw an eye looking out from bars at a window in a doorway.  Then Fat Cat Nacho climbed on me and positioned himself across my shoulder loking down at the stone.  In my visualization a huge black cat/jaguar/panther outlined in that bright electric blue  was peering down into that vortex of blue and sparkles that I am supposed to go into.  The vortex clears and before me I see a beautiful vallley of green with huge huge spires of crystals far far down below a craggy rocky mountainside.  On the valley floor, crystals are shining, very pointed and tall and all misty lavender, purple and mauves.  The cat sniffs my face and the scene clears abruptly and stark white blank pages of a book appear.  Ther is one line of script at the top of each page but I can't read it.  I end the session. 

As I write, I think tonight I might dream of that valley....then I realized that I don't hvae to "follow" the blue into the vortex and down those fearsome heights.  I can just "will" myself into that valley and be there.  That's for tomorrow I guess.  Also, the marks in that door looked like an I Ching reading.  I felt like needed to toss the I Ching sticks to open that door to the cave.

SIGH.  I know NOTHING about I Ching.

So, tonight, I looked up the I Ching on the 'net.  What I saw was a trigram, specifically the one for FIRE or FLAME or burning wood.  Each  line of the trigram stands for either yang.......the unbroken line, or yin, the broken line.  There is much more meaning than male/female duality.  Yang is time, light and strong..............yin is space, dark and weak.  Yang is the direction upwards, yin downwards.  Yang is the closed circle, yin is open angle.  Yang is clockwise, yin counterclockwise.  Yang is hard, resistant and tense, yin is soft, yeilding and relaxed.  The particular trigram that I saw is Li.........LI. Thinking.     Thinking links up sense data with words, following the wishes or motivations and impulses. Thinking has a beginning and end, visualized in the image of burning wood. You should not think beyond the solution of the problem. The motivation is to attain clarity, unattached to the thought. Thinking, like dialogue, is not an end in itself.

 Does this help me?  Not much. 

Next session is tonight.........romancing the stone.....contacting the crystal being.