10 BaoYiShangShan 抱一上山

Tiger Climbs the Mountain

A scorpion, a snake, an eagle.

There is a churning ascent to this movement that immediately reminded me of this card, the carved bubbles of space, souls spiraling upward into the sky.

"This illustrates Yin and Yang – lightness and heaviness contained in one being. The heaviness is in the bones – condensed and never yielding. The lightness is in the agility of the movement."

-- Master Wu

Skeleton, rampant.

I (mis)remembered the instructions on this movement emphasizing that all the joints in the body should be involved, but now I don't see that.

We often think of Scorpio as a descent, a diving into depths, but Scorpio is a shapeshifter -- it's never one thing for long.

Each shape is inoculated with the seeds of its transformation.

Scorpio is also the eagle, a dizzying ascent from the depths, a soaring, a widening gyre.