Health and Family Point: day 2 assessment from the point

I have discovered a very nice little nook situation by sitting here. I am between the bed and a book shelf unit. I can see all the windows in this room and none of the doors. Wow, I hadn’t realizes that from here I can’t see three of the points; knowledge/spirituality, career and travel/networking are invisible. It has been the case for years because of how this room demands the bed be positioned and the fact that I do not sleep well facing doors.

There is a large window in front of me, we are on a corner and this is the corner room exposed to view of two streets. I like the window to a point. I have put two layers of curtains on it. The one closes to the window acts as a diffuser and privacy screen the one closer is for blocking out some light and decoration. It has butterflies flying upward printed on it. But the curtain rod is pulling away from the wall.

I see the play/child point clearly that is the first one I notice because of course it is across from the HF point. There is a tripod there right now and the window nothing else the floor is basically clear. Space for dancing you know.

The marriage corner is a hot mess. It would be better empty. I can see the bookcase from here and it is full of dreams, aspirations and half done things, and probably flat out junk. Oddly the filling cabinet is in that area too on the border between marriage and reputation.

I wonder if there is a masculine direction and a feminine direction to moving through the bagua map. Like, they start in family and the male goes into knowledge, career, travel, children, marriage? Woah, that doesn’t exactly fly, but might. The female would go wealth, reputation marriage. This makes sense with the traditional way marriages were done. Not what I thought would come up.

As to me here and now, from this point I see that there is a cut off or divide between knowledge, career and networking, and the health and family aspects. I can see the house plant though and this is where the hook that holds the bells and jewelry is this hook is not visible to half the room. But what does this bring up as far as what I want my family life to be like?

Yesterday I concluded that this point is about food. We can think of what feeds us: music, story, and ceremony feed us. Interacting with safe people feeds us. The family is a group that I can relax and play in. It is also a source of nourishment and refuge for healing. It should be comfortable but not too comfortable. In some ways having it buffered from the career makes sense. Especially in this culture where career is a monster that can take over your life and boss you around if you aren’t careful.

Is there an action sitting here suggests? Well, putting away the tripod. That doesn’t need to be there. Right, and doing something about the curtain rod. And clearing out the clutter in the marriage corner especially the stuff on the floor. Freedom of movement seems important. Having the floor clear signals to me that there is space to move in.