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 Arousing
In the
appearance of the image of The Arousing, the
first of the two images that we have drawn for
you today from our I Ching Oracle, we have strong
confirmation of the theme just defined in the
above. The image of The Arousing is a literal
description of the electrical phenomenon of
thunder. The ancient Chinese associated their
experience of shocking booms of thunder with the
idea of renewed life, activity, progress,
movement forward. Thunder is of course a
harbinger of rain, condensed out of the clouds in
the electrical fire of lightening. A certain
degree of danger is always expressed in the image
of The Arousing, since thunder may announce the
onset of a damaging storm.
But you
may be assured that the booming blasts of
movement and change in your life that you have
been hearing, and will be hearing, portend very
good fortune, as when a good strong rain brings
blessed and nourishing relief to a land that is
parched and dry. This idea is expressed in the
verse that has been highlighted specifically by
today’s Reading from the image of The
Arousing. In this verse the oracle says,
“Shock goes hither and thither. Danger.
However, nothing at all is lost. Yet there are
things to be done.” This verse describes the
many changes that have already occurred in your
life, as well as those that have yet to come
about. You are in the middle of a time of many
changes, and so the issue becomes, what to
expect, and how to deal with the uncertainties.
First,
you may want to consider what your life would be
like without change happening on a contiuous
basis. I think you will agree that without change
there is no life. The image of The Arousing is an
image of movement, and life IS movement.
In this
regard, let me say something about the
association in this image of the idea of movement
and the phenomenon of thunder. I always remember
an incident from childhood that for me describes
the meaning of the Chinese idea of thunder. My
father and mother were teaching at the American
School in Guatemala City. I was left at home with
the Guatemalan maid, and it happened that one day
our dog gave birth to a litter of puppies. The
last one, alas, was born dead – or at least
not breathing. Without hesitation, our maid,
Rosa, took up the puppy and placed him under a
big tin basin, with the bottom up of course. Then
rhythmically she pounded powerfully on the
bottom. When she lifted the basin the puppy was
breathing, alive and well. We called him Lucky.)
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