Osaka Dragons
Wednesday, October 15th, 2008Osaka is Japan’s second largest city. Its telephone code is 06. As you get deeper into Aura-Soma, numbers become more significant - they indicate colour combinations. 06 is the number of the double red combination in the Equilibrium range. Red is the energy of the base chakra, the energy of mother earth, and also that of the female energy. It empowers all women.
While sitting outside an Osaka cafe one evening, casually watching the traffic passing by, a growing awareness of something surreal began to impress itself upon me. Many of the passing bicycles were being pedalled by men, but above and behind the man would be a woman standing up over the rear wheel. These women seemed like charioteers. Proud and commanding, as they sighted their path ahead, travelling effortlessly through space while the man beneath them worked hard.
I felt as if I were in another world, a civilisation of women warriors, a kind of mythic culture of dragons where the the female earth energy was in the ascendant, surreally interposed in this 21st century modern city scene.
From a telephone code that seems only chance, to a colour - Red - and to an expression of that red energy on the streets of the city. The dragon earth energy is strong in Osaka and it is the women who carry it. They experience what it is to be in the ascendant here.