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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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Opposition
We have a
very clear sense of the weakening of your
relationship in recent weeks. In some ways, it is
a fragile thing, requiring care and vigilance at
all times if you are to protect its positive
potential for the future. The nature of your
conflicts with each other is depicted very well
in the first image that we have drawn for you
today from the Chinese oracle, namely Opposition.
This is an image which draws attention to the
conflict of wills, and so issues of power and
control should be considered in evaluating your
approach to your boyfriend, and his to you. In
general, the counsel of the oracle is to avoid,
above all, proceeding in a brusque fashion, for
that would only increase the existing opposition.
Instead, it suggests that you should limit
yourself to producing gradual effects in small
ways. By this means, success can still be
expected, because the situation is such that
opposition does not yet preclude all agreement.
Focus, in other words, on the areas of agreement.
The image
of Opposition actually confirms our judgment of
your eventual success. For example, in the first
verse that is highlighted specifically for you in
this Reading, the oracle says, “Remorse
disappears.” But it goes on to give you a
key insight into the manner in which you can
protect the good potential that exists. It says,
“If you lose your horse, do not run after
it; it will come back of its own accord.”
What this means is that when opposition begins to
manifest itself, you must not try to force the
situation to conform to your immediate desires,
for by so doing you would only achieve the
contrary. This should answer your question about
“backing off” and giving your boyfriend
“time to himself.” Of course, you want
to handle this with delicacy, and not overdo it.
You want to do it in such a way as not to
compromise his understanding of your love for
him, and without failing to reassure him of your
loyalty.
Your
mutual estrangement is to some degree the result
of a kind of misunderstanding. This is the
meaning of another verse that is highlighted for
you by today’s Reading. It says,
“Isolated through opposition, one sees
one’s companion as a pig covered with dirt,
as a wagon full of devils. First one draws a bow
against him, then one lays the bow aside. He is
not a robber; he will woo at the right time. As
one goes, rain falls, then good fortune.”
You can see how directly this speaks to your
fears of being made into a “human
doormat.” In this part of the image, you are
depicted as misjudging your best friend, taking
him to be “unclean,” or in the
exaggerated words of the oracle, a dirty pig.
There is something threatening about the
situation and your vulnerability, which is why
the oracle pictures a wagon full of robbing
devils.
The
important thing, however, is the portent of
reconciliation in time. In the natural
development of this situation, there will be an
eventual fulfillment of your boyfriend’s
true love for you. Thus the tension will be
relieved. The oracle commonly refers to the
release of tension as a rainfall. Union resolves
tension, just as falling rain relieves the
sultriness preceding a thunderstorm. Then all
goes well, for just when opposition reaches its
climax it changes over to its antithesis.
This is
why, the image of Opposition is in the process of
changing into the image of Duration. As we have
pointed out to you in the past, the time element
is the crucial factor that you always have to be
keeping in mind in this situation. As the central
verse in Duration says, “The superior woman
stands firm and does not change her
direction.” There is no doubt in our minds
that you are being led to persevere in this
relationship.
A great
degree of wisdom is required of you under these
circumstances. You have to be able to separate
the transitory from the permanent. Focus on the
silent counsel that speaks within you, for we
have no doubt that the advice contained in this
Reading conforms to the urgings of that voice,
which speaks to you from your own higher
consciousness, telling you of the rightness of
your love for your boyfriend.
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