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Psychic Internet often feature images drawn from the
I Ching Oracle. To offer supplementary
information about these images for our clients,
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of brief articles.
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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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of the images.
Deliverance
In
confirmation of this judgment, consider the
appearance of the image of Deliverance, which I
have drawn for you from the I Ching Oracle. I
think you will agree that the name of the image
of Deliverance speaks for itself in today’s
Reading. Together with the image of Preponderance
of the Great, the response of the I Ching Oracle
reflects your situation so clearly and directly.
In the image of Preponderance of the Great, one
sees a situation in which the burden of excessive
responsibilities seems very nearly ready to
collapse the whole structure of things as they
are currently established. The image reflects the
solitary loneliness that you feel under the
weight of the burdens that you bear at this time.
But you will be delivered from these burdens, and
I hope you will never doubt it.
In the
first of the verses that has been highlighted
specifically by today’s Reading from the
image of Deliverance, the oracle says “If a
person carries a burden on her back and
nonetheless rides in a carriage, she thereby
encourages robbers to draw near. Perseverance
leads to humiliation.” I see this verse as a
recognition of what you gave up, or in essence
what was taken from you, when you embarked on the
career path that led you into your current job.
The “burden” was not the accumulation
of responsibilities under which you now labor.
No. It was the array of inborn talents and
interests that you were called to fulfill by your
given destiny at birth. But you chose to ride in
a “carriage,” perhaps not realizing the
ramifications of that choice. While granting a
certain comfort and ease in passage, a carriage
comes at a price, and now you are experiencing
the full extent of that price. Please do not
suppose that I am adding the insult of blame to
the pain that you feel in your position at this
time. Who goes through life without making
choices that would perhaps not be made with the
benefit of greater experience and understanding.
Besides, if we are foolish, the Universe usually
provides for our enlightenment in due time. Thus,
as the William Blake wrote, “the fool who
persists in his folly shall become wise.” So
long as we open our hearts to learning from life,
there is no disgrace in being foolish. Is it not
said that “God loves the fool”?
In the
second of the verses that has been highlighted
specifically by today’s Reading from the
image of Deliverance, the I Ching Oracle says,
“If only the superior person can deliver
herself, it brings good fortune. Thus she proves
to inferior people that she is in earnest.”
This verse reminds you that you must fortify your
own determination to be delivered from your
current position. All around you, you may find
people who are defeated by the circumstances of
life. But the Great Spirit aims to demonstrate
THROUGH YOU something about how deliverance comes
to those who persevere through thick and thin in
their determination to reach the goal that is
written in their innermost heart. Your
persistence in looking for a light that will lead
you out of your present darkness will be
rewarded. To give up the search for that light is
to be confounded by the vicissitudes of life, but
to persevere is to find one’s reward. This,
at any rate, is my creed.
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