“I patched the sky with colored stone.”
01
The broken pillar
02
The five-colored stones
03
The seam
After a catastrophe: a fight of powers that cracks heaven: the sky leaks and the world floods with fire and water. Nüwa smelts colored stones to patch the hole and steadies the four directions. Humans, in some tellings, she has already made from yellow earth, laboriously by hand, then by dragging a cord through clay when the work grew too large.
She is the patron of the unglamorous miracle: things can be broken and still be lived in, if someone will do the mending.
Inspect
INTERPRETATION
Nüwa is the psyche in repair mode. Not the original innocence, the patched sky. Perfectionism hates her because the mend will show. Soul prefers her because the world is habitable again.
The shadow
Waiting for an unbroken world. The mend hidden so no one sees the crack.
Four lookings
Campbell
Where are you waiting for an unbroken world instead of becoming the one who patches this one?
von Franz
What would a visible mend look like in your life: honest, not hidden?
Hillman
Which of your creations was made by hand, and which by the cord of haste?
Coelho
What stone of the right color is already in the room, waiting to be smelted?