Monday 16 February 2015

Gua Feng (Blow Wind)


Tuesday 13th Jan 2015. I was at work in LSE. I remember the hail outside. I had forgotten it was the anniversary of YoonAh's suicide. 
A mini tornado ripped through Harrow in North West London destroying a garage in Grafton Road. A firefighter described it as 'like something out of The Wizard of Oz'.

I checked my dream diary today and the night before [11/12-2-2015] one entry says:
'- Feng Gua'
I had learnt this in my Chinese lessons a few months before. Its backwards, maybe because dreams are reversed, the unconscious as opposed to the conscious. It should be Gua Feng - 'Wind Blow'.

When I had first met YoonAh I had walked her home along Lewisham Way. There was a storm blowing and we sat on the bench over the railway bridge at the top of Loampit Hill and watched as things were blown past. She said she liked the storm because it had 'tension'.

12 days after she had died I was with the artist Daniella Vals-Gen. We had just seen an exhibition at Orleans House by the river in Twickenham. An exhibition of Madge Gill, the spiritualist outsider artist, but also a collection of ouiji boards and ghost photographs. As we left there was a storm blowing. We got caught in the mini tornado that struck South West London that night [25 Jan 2014], picking cats off the floor in Cobham, destroying property in Ham. The wind has scared me and we ran for cover. There was purple lightning. Later we found a large tree ripped in half.

The Irish believe that whirlwinds contain Fairies.
In the Middle East they believe that Dust Devils are the vehicles in which the Jinn ride.

When you watch footage of tornadoes its easy to get the impression that they are alive.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2907922/UK-weather-Britain-blanketed-far-south-Somerset-wintry-showers.html