Imagine the earth is a woman. Let's make it more interesting, say the earth is a BW (lol!) The sky is a guy. The guy gets "aroused" and ....um...it rains. Rain and rain and rain. The earth produces and brings forth its plants and flowers, etc.
The earth (which is brown. or black or red) is the foundation is woman is producer or creator is Yesod.
Yesod personified is Joseph.
Just like it figure Jacob, the one who personifies tiferet/ beauty, knew exactly his mission, and could even take on another (Esau's)mission, and was so sure who was to be his girl (Rachel), he just met her at the well and gave her a kiss; So also it figures that Joseph, who personifies yesod, would be tested with sexual lust by Potiphar's wife(wrong yesod target! lol-- wrong mission, wrong malkhut) in Egypt (the place known as the womb).
Yesod and lovingkindness (chessed). There is a teaching that the world stands upon three things one of them being acts of kindness. Any foundation demands some free love, free giving in order for it to thrive. Since BW are on the agenda of divestment, I hope lovingkindness is an asset to be added in the investment part of the work.
I heard on another blog that in order to have a successful business, one needs to have it until it fails, then the next business one will know what to do. Okay, I admit I'm not a business major...but that sounds strange to me! lol. Yes, I agree one must give to any new creation (baby needs love and care; plants -water, sun, CO2; businesses - capital, strategy, goal; etc) but I don't know about running something to the ground if it can be avoided. Again, I don't know. (most likely I misunderstood what they were saying.)
Yesod and gevurah (holding back, strength). I suspect this can be tricky. Discipline is always needed when creating a foundation. Too much can be suffocating and repressing. It reminds me of how I can become if Mr. Blackfirewhitefire is away for very long and I need to keep the kids in line. There is no time to play and the kids need to heed my instructions the first time. I'm usually a bit harsher and stricter to reduce problems from the get go.
In the arts, it makes me think of drawings in which the object is created from the shadows. There is something somewhat deceptive about this but I can't put my hands on it.
(from Amazing Blog)
Yesod and tiferet (beauty and compassion). A healthy measure of leeway vs discipline in the creation of whatever foundation (Yourself, a baby, pruning a plant, whatever)
Yesod and Netzach. Building a permanent foundation. Like putting a stick in the pot of flower and tying the flower to it to insure that it grows straight.
Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your house; your children will be like olive shoots around your table. Psalm 128:3
The building blocks have got to be solid when creating a foundation. Each piece should be examined truthfully. What speaks to you? I remember there was a blog in which a commenter sounded very patronizing. How can his message be admitted with that streak of menace in it? Anyone who absorbs his message (whole) will have to contend with low self esteem later! Same goes for any block used for foundation: accept only the good, throw the peel away!Yesod and hod. Humility is knowing your weaknesses and your strength (and knowing that they come as gifts from On High). Not expanding a business to be bigger for the sake of greed -but if there is need. Not over decorating a home. Toning down on something or keeping stuff away for the sake of establishing a good start. (not giving kids candy all the time).
Yesod of yesod. As a dear reader mentions many times, its all one. If your capable it would be a beautiful exercise to take note at how your bonding with others is related to how you set up your foundation, and all that is related to how you begin your day, etc., etc., its working on the foundations of foundations. Are you grateful? Positive? energetic?
Yesod and Malkhut. This can almost be funny. Like the old cliche that some people are guided by their "other" brain in the pants. But nevertheless, there is a kingship in foundation, a king or a mission or an output from creativity / sexuality/ foundation. Its about staying true to your goal. Not falling for the "call" of Photiphar's wife.
You hear that Obama?! lol
Staying true to one's goal and (e)mission ("shooting" the rain into the right place; hitting the eight ball, as Dr. Welsings put it; etc) requires and brings just what Joseph required and got. It required that he retains the image of his father in his mind (Rashi for Genesis 39:11). Who was his father? Jacob -tiferet personified. If you recall tiferet is about beauty, truth, knowledge and compassion. Jacob was at ease with the female side of things and thus, his mission. Therefore he could know clearly who his wife was to be. So Joseph recalled the teachings of that. This helped him to stay strong and resist Potiphar's wife's advances. This may be why some say men ought to marry. To have their "mission" established and not have to chase the wrong "mission" (or be chased down by the wrong mission!). I guess this can be interpreted as getting married and knowing your goal and mission, your purpose.
What did this bring? It got Joseph the viceroy position. He rose higher than Potiphar and was next only after the Pharaoh himself.
So too, we can establish good foundations made of solid bricks. We can stay true to our goal for ourselves despite temptations and pulls left and right. Eventually, God willing, we will see that God's plan for us is something more beautiful than we had hoped!
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