Luhrenloup's Cave
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Divination

 

The I Ching is a book of Chinese wisdom, the accumulated experience of over 2,500 years of diviners and sages, and beyond that of unimaginably ancient oral traditions; it’s a guide to an ethical life, a manual for rulers, and an oracle of one’s personal future and the future of the state. The book of divination is based on eight symbolic trigrams and sixty-four hexagrams.

The oracles have been offering people help and wise, genial guidance for generations. It will tell you what challenges and opportunities you are likely to face if you take a particular path, and how you can negotiate the obstacles you meet. This is the opposite of 'fortune telling'. Being told what will happen, as if your own choices had nothing to do with the outcome, is deeply disempowering. The I Ching tells seekers what effects their choices will have, and helps them to develop strategies to achieve their goals.  

One needs to apply wisdom received in this post to upcoming events as they unfold during the coming week.

 

Oracle For The WEEK OF 11.03.25

 

"Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be." Kahlil Gibran

 

ORACLE FOR THE WEEK OF 12.8.25

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Progress

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The hexagram represents the sun rising over the earth.  It is therefore the symbol of rapid easy progress,

which at the same time mean ever-widening expansion and clarity.  

THE JUDGMENT

PROGRESS. The powerful prince

Is honored with horses in large numbers.

In a single day he is granted audience three times.

As an example of progress this pictures a time when a powerful feudal lord rallies the other lords around the sovereign and pledges fealty and peace.  The sovereign rewards  him richly and invites him to  a closer intimacy.

A two-fold idea is set forth here.  The actual  effect of the progress emanates from a man who is in a  dependant position and whom the others regard as their   equal and are therefore willing to  follow.   This leader has enough clarity of vision not to abuse his great influence but to use it rather for the benefit of his  ruler.   His ruler in turn is free  of  all jealousy, showers presents on the great man, and invites him continuosly to his  court.     An enlightened ruler and an obedient servant--this is the condiion on which great progress depends.

THE IMAGE

The sun rises over the earth:

the image of PROGRESS.

Thus the superior man himself

Brightens his bright virtue.

The light of the sun rises over the earth is by nature clear.  The higher the sun rises, the more it emerges from the dark mists, spreading the pristine purity of its rays over  an ever widening area.  The real nature of man is likewise originally good, but it becomes clouded  by earthly things  and therefore needs  purification  before it can shine  forth in its  native  clarity.

THE LINES

Six at the beginning means:

Progressing but turned back.

Persevering brings good fortune.

If one meets with  no confidence, 

One should remain calm.

No mistake.

At a  time when all  elements are pressing  for  progress, we are  still uncertain whether in the course of advance we may not meet with a rebuff.  Then the thing to do  is   simply continue in what is        right; in  the  end this  will bring  good fortune.  It  may be  that we meet with no confidence  regardless of  the situation, but should remain calm and cheerful and  refuse to be roused to anger. Thus  we remain free of mistakes.

 
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