http://www.woodka.com/2005/11/09/karma-chameleon/ All things change when we do -- Kukei Fri, 09 Jan 2009 22:15:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 http://www.woodka.com/2005/11/09/karma-chameleon/comment-page-1/#comment-122276 Changing Places » Blog Archive » Leaping Lizards Fri, 29 Feb 2008 23:33:34 +0000 http://www.woodka.com/2005/11/09/karma-chameleon/#comment-122276 [...] LEAPING LIZARD: The flying dragon can glide for up to 50 meters (164 feet). It jumps from a tree and spreads out folds of skin. These folds act as wings and let the lizard glide through the air. Yi (pronounced “yee”), is usually translated as Change or changes. Philosophically, it is primordial change, inscribed in the actual order of things, the on-going process of the real or Way. It gives us the seeds and the symbols through which life and spirit can transmit and extend themselves. The meanings of this truly magical name include making a gift, healing a sickness, calming and tranquilizing the spirit, pulling up weeds, cultivating a field. It is the sun appearing after clouds, thanks to the intervention of an ancestor. It is the name of a frontier region, and suggests borderline or liminal states of mind and place. The Chinese character in its various forms contains the graphs for sun and moon and for a lizard or chameleon. [...] [...] LEAPING LIZARD: The flying dragon can glide for up to 50 meters (164 feet). It jumps from a tree and spreads out folds of skin. These folds act as wings and let the lizard glide through the air. Yi (pronounced “yee”), is usually translated as Change or changes. Philosophically, it is primordial change, inscribed in the actual order of things, the on-going process of the real or Way. It gives us the seeds and the symbols through which life and spirit can transmit and extend themselves. The meanings of this truly magical name include making a gift, healing a sickness, calming and tranquilizing the spirit, pulling up weeds, cultivating a field. It is the sun appearing after clouds, thanks to the intervention of an ancestor. It is the name of a frontier region, and suggests borderline or liminal states of mind and place. The Chinese character in its various forms contains the graphs for sun and moon and for a lizard or chameleon. [...]

]]> http://www.woodka.com/2005/11/09/karma-chameleon/comment-page-1/#comment-235 Nickie Fri, 11 Nov 2005 01:44:50 +0000 http://www.woodka.com/2005/11/09/karma-chameleon/#comment-235 Thank you, Donna, for baring (and sharing) some of your "colors" for us to regale in...they are always beautiful, quite often changing (!) right before our eyes...keep up your colorful take on life and again, thanks for letting us take a peek every now and then. Thank you, Donna, for baring (and sharing) some of your “colors” for us to regale in…they are always beautiful, quite often changing (!) right before our eyes…keep up your colorful take on life and again, thanks for letting us take a peek every now and then.

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