What Can You Teach with Two Rocks?

Today was a long day. I just got back from hiking in Letchworth State Park here in the Finger Lakes Region of Upstate NY. It was gorgeous.

We hiked down in the river bed, and up to the top of the waterfalls. There's even a train trestle that I refused to walk across, because I neither bungee jump for pleasure, nor did I have a bungee cable on hand to keep me from plummeting to my death. So I just stayed near terra firma.

The gorges in Upstate NY (think: Ithaca is Gorges) are some sort of shale or slate stone that chips off easily into thin, jagged fragments too sharp to skip - sharp enough to skin a hide with when freshly broken off. I selected a stone from the river bank to represent the freshly broken off masculine energy that is cutting its way through the world.

On the other hand, in the river bed, there are rocks that have broken off many many years ago, and have been washed downstream for miles. They are not nearly as jagged and many of them are worn smooth from their interactions with other rocks, and nature in general. I selected one of these rocks to represent the feminine energy that is gently softening all the other rocks around it.

These two rocks are a simple example of a natural process that occurs in a mind pre-disposed to see patterns in the world. It could have been anything.

Today, it was two rocks and the energies they represented on opposite poles of the masculine-feminine energy continuum.

Are you more jagged or smoothed over?

I know I'm mellowing with age, but I certainly still have an edge or two to smooth over.

Cheers,

Craig

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