{Elemental Circles}[5th January 1989]

[Redbook6:79-81)][19890105:1022]{Elemental Circles}[5th January 1989]

19890105.1022

In the curious matter of ‘elements’,* I note that by starting the second half or third quarter (approximately speaking!) of my life on a smallholding, which is the background (but not in [sic] the foreground) of our life here, I fit myself to an Inner life-cycle:

[Text extracted from ms image above:]

		C
Water		|		Air
	Love		Harmony
–	Revelation	.	Inner Action	–
	Creation		Evolution
		Diversity
Fire		|	←‘You are here’	Earth

This is reassuring in that I am going the right way. Although I cannot associate my childhood with water (except in the rather trivial way that I swam** more than [I] ever [have] since), the second quarter was noticeable for a kind of intense creative fire – I used the metaphor then*** – against the background of which I had to run the mundane and complicated foreground of my life – studying law and accountancy – doing office work, etc.. Certainly I do not feel that relative fire here at [CH] in the same way: as I have said,**** the constant background is the earth: land, mud.

It is curious that in my second quarter I wanted very much to smallhold [sic] fields and woods on [the land around C] – to give myself financial ‘independence’[,] and my mother income – which, if I had succeeded early on, would have suggested an outer Life Cycle: the motives were basically financial.

The implication of this Life Cycle is a quarter period of general evaluation, replacing the intensely creative period of the last quarter: this makes some sense in connection with my writing.

*[As to which see next entry, final para]

**{& bathed?!}

***{ref ? – (eg) II. [] 205B}

[This refers to an inserted note not currently included in the ts; but see eg

[Redbook2:34][19740111:0130]{“Fire”}[11^th January 1974]];

[Redbook2:66B][19750314:2145][Survival][14^th March 1975]; & cf

[Redbook2:227][19820626:0930b]{A Dream: Spirit of Fire}[26^th June 1982] (&f); &

[Redbook1:205A-D][19710511][Mother Church][11th May 1971] (v3)]

****[ie in this journal entry, presumably]

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