Feng Shui from the Inside, Out – Day 22
Feng Shui from the Inside, Out? Day 22
Resources 1
Well, we’ve made it just about full circle and are focused now on the 8th facet of the bagua which I call Resources. Resources and Connection have a lot in common in that they both relate to support. (If you think about it – something I don’t often suggest – but, hey, it’s fun sometimes, all four ‘corners’ of the bagua octagon relate to support in some way. Connection offers the support of the invisible, Finances offers monetary support, Relationship offers people – probably the best support there is – and Resources offers book learning, among other things.
The Resources area, like Rejuvenation & Relaxation, has some built-in complexity which is not surprising if you view the bagua in one of its many guises as following the flow of a lifetime. Conceived in the Life Path area, by the time you reach Resources, you have become a Resource, you are an elder. Your next step will be starting over again! So this area, while it refers to study of all sorts, to travel as a means to broadening your horizons and experiences of mankind, also refers to you as a resource for others. It refers to being mentored and to being a mentor. Resources is about gathering knowledge and experience so that you can be of use, so that you can give back.
Because life is ever changing, learning is constant. We learn from experience, without a doubt, especially from new experiences, which is how this facet of the bagua came to be associated with travel, a hangover from the days when in order to learn something about another place or another culture you actually had to pick up and go there, a time when books were not as ubiquitous as they are today and when illustrations had to be created by hand.
