Aimen Alps

All Moods are fleeting but you would make an integrated home for six of them.

Anxious

Languishing

Restrained

Compelled

Composed

Sanguine

The Daunted

Exasperation haunts these two Fera, frozen out by the elements, and stuck in relentless inner conflict.

The quest for Purpose begins by giving expression to the deep worries that haunt one’s fledgling intentions. The Thrush’s warbling cries sound insignificant compared to the crashing ruin surrounding her. But only by first acknowledging her own panic can she respond to the cries of others.

Submersed within dark hollows of self doubt, the arctic Shrew sits perturbed in relentless inertia. The heavy misery of feeling “othered” tunnels throughout their burrow, providing the Shrew circuitous dwellings for their weary antisocial preferences. The fear instinct that impels Thrush toward flight has been drained, leaving Shrew resigned in discouragement.

Offering equal and opposite ways to manage Rage, here begins an inner and outer climb toward equanimity.

Macaque has little appetite for life’s delights. Instead of hiding and letting his demons get the best of him, however, he purposefully exposes himself to the surrounding elements. Sitting upright in a reflective pool of resounding stillness, there is focus now on the wild beating of his heart. Grim acceptance is at hand.

Ibex understands the simple logic of the perfect climb. The muted clatter of his deftly cloven hooves test the mettle of mountainsides and render them yielding. The inescapable formula for Ibex success: limits exist only to be overcome. There is no pause in the urge to march onward and upward. If there was, the cadence of Ibex ambition might cease for a moment and the loneliness would be overwhelming.

Openness unites these emancipated Fera; one by sustaining tensions within, the other by transcending.

Bear surrenders utterly to the hidden splendor of the moment, rolls his lazy belly to the sky, and sighs. There is a tranquility that descends of itself to those who dare to turn aside their tasks and listen. Ephemeral as the wind, filling out one’s empty sails; it is a tribute from the heavens favoring those who have acquired deep warrior discipline over their aggressive urges.

Snow Leopard holds sentinel at the topmost among the Ferus. Fear, Shame, and Rage have met their still point here. Unlike Bear’s luxurious composure, the Snow Leopard’s confidence knows the hollows are not far behind. Only by actively overseeing their domain, do Snow Leopard’s secure their own secret purpose.