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Kajo #2
In one of his conferences, O sensei explains that in Aikido one must understand all natural laws of
the Universe and for instance, that one must know and use the rotation of the Earth.

We know that Earth revolves on its axis with a 23 angle (which slightly changes with time).

Let's follow that indication, let's trust him even if we don't know where this will lead us and let's
rotate the image appeared in the DOSSIER 1 until we reproduce the same angle, similar to Earth's
tilt.

For reasons that will become clear in next chapters, we chose to select a 30 angle instead of 23.
Then we reproduced that angle in all quarters of the circle cut by the rectangular diameters.

The four defined diameters define eight directions sharing a common origin: the center of the
circle.

To tell the truth, that shape is a bit difficult to read since it describes life as we will see when the
time has come. Let's try to outline it in a geometric form which will make the eight directions easier
to perceive.

Here is the result:

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These spirals, once drawn, happen to be Bernouilli spirals.

Also named "spira mirabilis", that spiral has one remarkable property: homotetia.

When it moves, when it changes, it remains identical (with the same ratio, proportion). That
property is expressed in the latine words carved on Bernouilli's tumb: eadem mutata resurgo
(Although changed, I shall arise the same" TN).

That spiral is the structure of many natural phenomenons, from galaxies to sun flowers, from
artichokes and urchins to tropical storms.

Spiral galaxy NGC 4414 shot by HST Tropical storm Bianca Helianthus flower, Bannerghatta
NASA picture licence PD-USGOV-NASA NASA picture licence CC BY Bangalore
Picture by L. Shyamal under licence CC
BY-SA

The homotetia property of that spira mirabilis echoes Phytagoras' sentence:

You will know, as far as is possible for a mortal, that nature is always identical to itself.

Ueshiba sensei begins one of his conferences as follows:

The Universe and the human body are the same thing, If one does not know that, one
does not understand Aiki. Because Aiki comes from the movement of the whole
universe.

Takemusu Aiki - Volume III Editions du Cnacle de France

What must the practitioner do in front of such a statement from the Founder?

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Of course he can frame and hang it in his bedroom, next to Pythagoras' sentence, he can say it
loud twelve times a day, he can also write a hundred pages about it... But none of this will help
understanding.

As for me, I propose another path: exploring the plan (also work plan / structure / map TN) O
sensei left us for our instruction, that plan that nobody, as far as I know, has truly explained yet.

Philippe Voarino, march 2012.

Philippe Voarino next seminar: Sunday, 21 April, 2013, Aikido Gasshuku 2013, Antibes, France

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