September 6, 2003

• The Tempest

  

  A tropical storm over Florida (lower left)
  and a hurricane at Bermuda (upper right)
  at 3:15 p.m. EDT on Friday, Sept. 5, 2003:

  “Wind over Water“

  as described by William Shakespeare in 1611.

  “Wind over Water” in the I Ching,
  the Classic of Transformations,
  signifies huan, ”dissolving.” 

  Dissolving: 

  Our revels now are ended. These our actors, as I foretold you,
  were all spirits and are melted into air, into thin air: and, like the
  baseless fabric of this vision, the cloud-capp’d towers, the gorgeous
  palaces, the solemn temples, the great globe itself, yea, all which it
  inherit, shall dissolve and, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
  leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and
  our little life is rounded with a sleep. (Prospero, IV.i)

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