9 HuaiBaoRiYue 懐抱日月

Embrace the Sun and Moon

Gravity Hug

"Imagine you are embracing the sun and moon as you open and close your hands. The left hand is the sun and the right is the moon. This is Yin and Yang combining."

-- Master Zhongxian Wu

Arms like gravity.

Not gravity like we experience it, as creatures crawling around on the surface of a planet -- gravity as experienced by planets. They aren't resting on a surface, being pulled down into it. They are looping around each other in an elliptical dance.

HuaiBauRiYue reaches toward these great spheres, Sun and Moon. We dance with them, reaching toward the surrounding sky, drawing them into an embrace, into union in our heart, our belly.

When I do this movement, I feel the sky wheeling around me, I feel time spiraling inward to the center.

photograph by A. Duro/ESO