Psychic Readings from The
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.
For general information on
the I Ching Oracle, click here.
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.
Innocence
In
today’s Reading, the image of Innocence
prepares you for coming events by giving you
general advice about how to think about and
respond to whatever happens. Another name for
this image is The Unexpected, and this pinpoints
the perspective that the oracle takes with regard
to the events that are likely to be most
significant during this time in your life. By
speaking of what is unexpected, the oracle draws
your attention to the fact that not everything
that happens can be explained as directly caused
by your own attitudes or behavior. This is an
important distinction to make, especially if
events occur that are not particularly desired by
you. It is natural, but NOT always helpful, to
look for the cause of such events in your own
self, and this is why the oracle is putting
emphasis on the idea of innocence. The important
thing, in other words, is for you to look at
these events with a perfectly clear conscience.
I should
hasten to add that we do NOT foresee any
significant misfortune in your life. On the
contrary, for the most part we see only a
preponderance of good fortune. However, the
oracle is warning you about events that will not
necessarily be to your liking, not specifically
desired by you, and which present certain
challenges in the way that you respond to them.
In the
central verse associated with the image of
Innocence, the oracle says, “Under heaven
thunder rolls: all things attain the natural
state of innocence. Thus the kings of old, rich
in virtue, and in harmony with the time, fostered
and nourished all beings.” This verse gives
us from the Eastern perspective an idea with
which we are quite familiar from our own
traditions. In Western theology, for example,
there has always been a need to deal with a
somewhat unwelcome implication of the idea of One
God. This implication is that good and evil have
the same ultimate origin. The Creator, in a
higher wisdom than we are ever capable of
comprehending, makes good people and bad people.
And as we know from experience, it is not only
the good people that seem to reap the worldly
rewards that life has to give. While there may be
no answer that adequately deals with it, the
beginning of all spiritual growth and development
seems to begin with the question, “Why do
bad things happen to good people?”
The point is not to answer
the question in any general sense, but in the
context of this Reading there is a very clear
answer in a more specific sense that you may well
keep in mind. This is that you are yourself
wholly innocent with respect to the specific
developments that are portended in this
intimation of “the unexpected.”
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