City of Angels

A movie that I have watched so many times and will still keep re-watching.

This time when I watched it, it was almost like slow motion and I am taken by every scene of it. And there are lines in there that made me reflect like never before. Just to name a few below.

At the beginning of the movie, when the little girl holds out her hand to greet the hand of Seth by her bedside, that's such a marvelous scene that reminds me of the Healing Presence of the Heart Center. A small hand of surrendering, letting go, into the big hand and letting the big hand hold the little hand. The lighting was superb, with a golden backdrop and with so much light and love in the scene.

A funny thing that I found out too this time is that Angels don't lie. They don't have to because they do not see things as inherently good or bad - not like us.

Since I am working on Masculine/Feminine relationship, the whole movie suddenly throws a new light to me from this angle. Remember the kitchen scene when Maggie was testing Seth that she literally cut into his hand. And she has to put up such an anger as she is facing with something that is totally beyond her. To the Feminine, Love is and can be totally beyond her and overwhelm her and this is her face that she is putting up to the Masculine. She is vulnerable and has to fight back by cutting into his hand - the useful part of the Masculine - that "touches" Her with *feelings*.

Ah yes feelings. "You should trust that. You don't trust it enough." Seth said to Maggie in the library. My always favorite line in the movie.

It also suddenly dawns on me about the progression of how the Masculine and Feminine unite. From the initial encounter, to the kitchen scene (the lesser coniunctio) followed by separation (alchemically) and then the pursue (oh yes with rain included) and then the final (greater) coniunctio.

And Seth said, "I would rather have had one breath of her hair, one kiss from her mouth, one touch of her hand, than eternity without it. One." Reminds me of the Buddhist saying 一即一切 (and the same phrase can be said in reverse 一切即一).