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The
abstract images of the I Ching Oracle (usually
called "hexagrams") symbolize all of
the related and interacting aspects of reality.
In the following excerpts from actual Psychic Readings, the images of the I Ching
are discussed.
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Abundance
In our
Reading for you today, we have drawn a response
from the I Ching Oracle that speaks very directly
to your question. In fact, it speaks in the most
positive terms about your future situation with
respect to love and relationship.
Thus, in
the first of the verses that have been
highlighted specifically by today’s Reading
from the image of Abundance, the oracle says,
“When you meet your destined ruler, you can
be together ten days, and it is not a mistake.
Going meets with recognition.” In this
verse, your future beloved is defined as a
“ruler,” and this of course has nothing
to do with being under somebody’s control
and command. Perhaps we should think of the more
humble use of the word, in fields like surveying
and architecture, where a ruler is simply a
measuring device, or is used to draw a straight
line. When we are in love, the value of the whole
universe seems to be measured and gauged
according to the presence in it of our dearly
beloved. Love is a measuring device that is
calibrated in infinities.
At any
rate, when you meet your future beloved, you will
settle down to a new stage in your life that will
extend and continue through an entire cycle of
time, symbolized by the measure of “ten
days.” This is the promise of the oracle.
But the verse also seems to remind you that you
cannot simply rely on fate to make it a reality.
The image of Abundance is constructed out of two
subsidiary images, one describing light and
clarity of vision, the other describing movement
and motivation. These are the TWO elements that
both need to be brought into play in order for
the state of abundance to be manifested. A great
commentator (Richard Wilhelm) draws on this idea
in his remarks about the above-quoted verse: he
says, “To bring about a time of abundance, a
union of clarity with energetic movement is
needed. Two individuals possessed of these two
attributes are suited to each other. Therefore
one may go forth, in order to make one’s
influence felt; it will meet with
recognition.”
It may be
that the idea of going forth to meet with
recognition is a very pointed reference to your
own particular situation. You have certainly
oriented your life very astutely on your clear
vision of what you are looking for in a mate.
This is all good with no reservations. But the
oracle reminds you that movement is also
essential to success. One can be very good on the
theoretical plane, and still fail to find success
if there is no corresponding excellence on the
practical plane. This is one aspect of Asian
thought that seems to be very carefully thought
out by comparison with our own way of thinking
about things. In the I Ching, for example, the
ancients drew a schematic diagram of all the
situations that arise when perfectly aimed
intelligence meets perfectly malleable material
– or, when Heaven meets Earth, to put it in
the book’s conventional terms. It is not
enough to see things clearly, to understand them,
to have a purpose. It is also necessary to apply
understanding with practical efficacy.
In other
words, you shouldn’t neglect the “get
up and do” part of being right. This seems
to be an unmistakable part of the message that
comes to you in this Reading by way of the I
Ching Oracle. However, I also need to tell you
that we do not happen to see in your immediate
environment any sign of the presence of your
future beloved. Indeed, our feeling is that this
eventuality is still at least a year away from
happening. Perhaps this is why, in the second of
the verses that have been highlighted
specifically by today’s Reading from the
image of Abundance, the oracle says, “The
underbrush is of such abundance that the small
stars can be seen at noon. He breaks his right
arm. No blame.”
I
won’t go deeply into it, but I can tell you
just as a matter of explaining the oracle’s
terms, that the image of Abundance actually
describes an eclipse of the sun. You can see this
element in play in the verse just quoted. Thus,
there is some logic in the idea that we (and you)
do not see your future beloved around you at this
time. And there is some harm that tends to arise
as a result of the darkness that this entails. In
effect, the light of your being is so eclipsed as
to make it impossible even for the most sensitive
soul to find his way to you. There is no blame in
this, either on your side or his. An eclipse is a
function of forces that are beyond the influence
of individual human actions or conditions. The
Native Americans of legend paid dearly for their
ignorance of the cause of an eclipse. The story
is told that Columbus foretold an eclipse, and
asked for concessions as the price of bringing
back the sun. You need to know that the reasons
for the eclipse of love in your life have to do
with impersonal forces of fate that are built
into the structure of the Universe as a whole.
You can no more hasten the season of love in your
life than you can hasten the advent of spring
when you are shivering in the cold and dark of
winter. The Heavenly Spheres turn at their own
pace.
And you
know also that every eclipse passes. And in the
last of the verses that have been highlighted
specifically by today’s Reading from the
image of Abundance, the oracle says, “The
curtain is of such fullness that the polestars
can be seen at noon. She meets her ruler, who is
of like kind. Good fortune.” You see, even
in the darkness, the Great Spirit has decreed
that we should be provided with a light, a beacon
that shines on our goal. It is our polestar. We
are guided by that beacon of light as surely as
if we were to be traveling toward a known shore
in the full light of day. And then, in due time,
we arrive at our destination and there is good
fortune.
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