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.
The Taming Power of the
Great
In the
Judgment associated with the image of The Taming
Power of the Great, the oracle says,
“Perseverance furthers. Not eating at home
brings good fortune. It furthers one to cross the
great water.” This means diving into the
stream of life. Be unafraid. If you were on the
wrong track the oracle would never say
“perseverance furthers.” And, “Not
eating at home” means getting out into the
world, exploring, having adventures. There’s
no doubt about the message here.
And in
the verse that is highlighted specifically for
you by today’s Reading from the image of The
Taming Power of the Great, the oracle says,
“The headboard of a young bull. Great good
fortune.” I spoke above about the mighty
oak. Here the metaphor is different. But, the
same idea could be applied to my own metaphor.
For the oak the headboard is gravity. That’s
what makes the oak broad and strong. Gravity. The
hippies used to scrawl a good one over the walls,
“Gravity Sucks!” How true. But, what
holds us back also gives us our substance, our
weight, our ability to BE something in the world.
Gravity
represents all those things that have caught you
up short, the things that “tame” the
power that exists within you. If you ever heard
that extreme kind of Jazz, at the end of the
Bebop era, when the sax just screamed and
screamed, playing total chaos at blinding speed,
and very loud, then you know what power is when
it is NOT tamed. But it couldn’t last. It
played itself out. It was exhausted almost before
it began.
In short,
the oracle is telling you to welcome those things
that constrain you in the world as you find it,
and also those constraints that you take
willfully upon yourself, so that the energy can
be channeled like an electric current in a wire.
Once good old Ben Franklin harnessed the power of
the lightening in his little kite, nothing could
stop the “effectiveness” of people.
Your power needs to be constrained if it is to be
of any use to you.
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