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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,
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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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Youthful Folly
But this
does not mean that you are in a position to help
him in this respect – that is, to help him
to see things more clearly. In fact, this is the
meaning of the message that comes to you from our
I Ching Oracle today. In the verse that has been
highlighted specifically by today’s Reading
from the image of Youthful Folly, the oracle
says, “In punishing folly it does not
further one to commit transgressions. The only
thing that furthers is to prevent
transgressions.”
The word
“punishing” in the above quoted verse
might be better translated as
“correcting.” And the word
“transgressions” refers to the way in
which you might like to handle your close
friend’s folly. In other words, you might
like to correct him with respect to the direction
that he is pursuing. You may instinctively feel
that he is making a mistake, and this might
account for your pain as much as your own sense
of loss under the circumstances. Indeed, we think
that it does.
However,
as we have felt consistently in Reading for you
on this question, the whole point of the physical
separation that exists between the two of you is
that it gives R. a chance to grow in his own
capacity for independence and self-reliance. As
Biblical theology claims, God gave humanity
freedom of will, and this inevitably means the
freedom to make mistakes. Adam and Eve were not,
perhaps, so much expelled from the Garden of Eden
as they were given permission to leave. After
Adam’s transgression, if you recall, he
hides from God, who calls for him as a loving
father to his son. But Adam, like all men and
women, feels a certain burden in the idea that
God is everywhere, that God can see into his
deepest secrets. He wants to be free of constant
oversight, and if that means being free of loving
care, then so be it. Adam and Eve said, in
effect, “We want to be on our own.”
What else could God say, but, “OK, try it
out if you must.” And, oh Lord, what
mistakes we have been making ever since. But
maybe we are learning something from our
mistakes. Maybe we are growing into something
that we could not otherwise have been in any
other way.
You are a
mother, and surely you don’t want to see
your children make any mistakes. But won’t
you have to set them free one day? And is it
possible that they won’t make any mistakes?
Of course not. In fact, you will set them free
just precisely because you love them and want
them to grow to the fullest extent that is
possible for them. With reference to the above
quoted verse, it would actually be a
“transgression” on your part, and a
very serious one, if you were to try to deny your
children the freedom which is their birthright.
While you may see them on the verge of
transgressing in some way, it would be an even
greater transgression for you to deny them the
right to their own independence and freedom from
constraint. Can you apply this aspect of the
nature of love, which sets the beloved free, in
your relationship with R. as well?
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