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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,
and for the public, we have provided this archive
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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Increase
In fact,
there is reason to believe that your experience
with S. will help to strengthen and refine your
personality, and bring similar good results to
S., even if the two of you do not move forward
into the kind of relationship that you have been
hoping for. This idea is expressed explicitly in
the verse that has been highlighted by
today’s Reading from the image of Increase,
which I have drawn for you from the I Ching
Oracle, the ancient Chinese classic that is also
known as the Book of Changes. In this verse, the
oracle says, “One is enriched through
unfortunate events. No blame, if you are sincere
and walk in the middle, and report with a seal to
the prince.”
Parts of
this verse may seem obscure if you are not
familiar with the characteristic jargon that is
used by this oracle to express its judgments. The
idea of being enriched by unfortunate events is
not obscure, and it may be understood as an
expression of a dark cloud’s silver lining
that I referred in the paragraph above. And the
idea of being sincere is simply a reminder to you
that there is nothing negative, per se, about
your feelings for S. In other words, there is
apparently no subconscious or ulterior motivation
on your part that in any way indicates that your
feelings for her arise out of something that is
inappropriate in you.
However,
when the oracle speaks of walking “in the
middle,” it expresses a warning to you about
getting carried away by the feelings that you
have for S, allowing yourself to suppose that
more can come of this relationship than is really
within its potential. The “middle way”
is a traditional Chinese expression that promotes
the idea of moderation and temperance. In short,
this reference to the middle way advises you to
moderate your expectations about your
relationship with her. And to “report with a
seal to the prince” is simply a way of
saying that you need to proceed in such a way as
to be in harmony with what a Higher Power has
determined to be right for you. Too often, we are
willful, and imagine that we can arrange our own
destiny in life according to rather superficial
and transitory predilections and goals. Life
usually frustrates our efforts when we proceed in
this way. It is better to live in the faith that
what is best for us will inevitably come our way
if we are patient and receptive to good. There is
no explaining or proving this faith, but the
deepest realities are by nature mysterious and
the wise person never loses sight of the
limitations of reason in this respect.
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