Archive for I-Ching

Understanding the I-Ching

{ February 11, 2009 @ 7:12 pm } · { I-Ching, Yin & Yang }
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Hello everyone, hope you are all having a great day today, sorry today’s post is late. I was at the doctor’s office with my nephew all morning then had to do a few errands. Today I am going to explain the I-Ching, starting with the trigrams.

There are eight trigrams, they are the basis of the sixty-four hexagram. Each trigram is made up of three lines. The lines are either yin (broken) or yang (solid). The eight trigrams, numbered zero to seven, are formed from all the possible combinations of yin & yang. Each one represents one of the living forces of the universe. Fu Hsi saw these eight symbols as a way of entering into communion with the living powers of our world and of understanding the human condition. Each symbols represent the different qualities of the outer & inner worlds. He saw then what we are now rediscovering, that all that parts are necessary to the whole.

0 — The Earth, generous, supportive and forever giving

1 — The Thunder, wild, shocking and exciting

2 — The River, calm one moment, a torrent the next

3 — The Lake, fruitful, where animals drink and plants grow

4 — The Mountain, steady and grounded

5 — The Sun and Fire, brilliant, illuminating and burning

6 — The Trees and Wind, gentle, yet penetrating every nook and cranny

7 — The Sky, vast as the canopy of celestial power

Everything that we know is made up of these elements, including ourselves. Our bones are the mountains, our blood is the river.  Our passions burn with the Sun, and our imagination flies on the breeze of the wind. They are the universal & spiritual qualities that unite the natural forces with the human worlds & the realms of the heart & mind as one.

Come back tomorrow for the qualities of each of the trigrams. If you have any questions feel free to email us at miraclesnmagic@comcast.net

The Interplay of Yin & Yang With The Four Seasons

{ November 19, 2008 @ 2:10 pm } · { I-Ching, Oracles, Yin & Yang }
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Hello everyone, sorry I didn’t post yesterday. We had a business meeting & then had some other stuff to take care of. Today I am going to continue talking about Yin & Yang and how they interplay with the four seasons. Below is a chart that I came across that shows this:

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To describe the world in Yin & Yang is to paint it in black & white, sacrificing all the detail & shading in the world. If we were to paint the varying shades of gray, we will have to show a mixtuce of Yin & Yang. Like our year moves through the four seasons, Yin & Yang also moves through four alternatives stages. Once Yin reaches it’s limit in the dead of winter, yang moves in from the bottom. This is the beginning of spring. Energy rises from the earth to the sky and the plants start to grow. Then, in the summertime the Yang energy moves up to fill both positions. At this point the days of summer have peaked, and the Yin energy of fall starts to move in & the beginning of the decay & decline takes place.

Everything from the rise & fall of a civilization to the way our thoughts rises & falls from our minds, follows this rhythm. The moon even moves though four stages, new moon, waxing moon, full moon & waning moon.

Harmony is the rhythmic interplay of Yin & Yang, the ability to change Yin from Yang & back again with the agility of a dancer. Yin & Yang can not be seperated, like the tides & the seasons, they are changing & moving all the time.

Hope this helps you to understand how Yin & Yang works a little better. If you have any questions feel free to email us at mircalesnmagic@comcast.net

The Tao: Understanding Yin & Yang

{ November 15, 2008 @ 6:11 pm } · { I-Ching, Oracles, Yin & Yang }
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Hello everyone, hope you all have a great day.  It’s cold & rainy here, perfect weather to stay curled up in bed, wish is exactly what I wish I could do. Today we are going to continue with the I-Ching and discuss Yin and Yang.  Albert Einstein described it best when he wrote “There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by feeling for the order lying behind appearance.”

The easiest way to describe the universe is to simply say that it “is” The Chinese called this the Tao. Saying that the universe just is isn’t enough, we need to define the difference in this “is-ness” so that we can understand the world around us. The Chinese call these differences Yin & Yang.

Although never kept entirely seperate, we differentiate, she from he, black from white, inside form outside. There is always a continuous movement between the two, like day moving into night. As absolutes are unobtainable, within the black there is always some white & vica versa. This is the nature of Yin & Yang.

Yin is receptive: relaxed, open, flexible. It is the time before making a decision, when all is still in the realm of possibilities & dicoveries. It is also the state of fluidity, spacious & vast; an ocean of primal chaos. Physically, yin is responsive, pliable, the energy flowing freely. Emotionally, it is generous, open-hearted, and pleasing. Intellectually, it is broad-minded & interested in new ideas.

Extreme Yin is inclined to be passive & vague. Physically, it is flaccid & weak. Emotionally, it is anxious & vulnerable. Intellectually, is it indecisive & uncertain.

Yang is active: excited, projecting, decisive. It is the time when a decision has been made, the actuality; for example the Big Bang exploding our universe into existence. Physically, yang is strong & firm. Emotionally, yang is confident & certain. Intellectually, yang is enterprising & inflexible.

Extreme yang is inclined to be dominating & rigid. Physically, it is tense & tight. Emotionally, it is bossy & aggressive. Intellectually, it is prejudiced & inflexible.

Eventually, extremes will turn to their opposite, as with the continus motion of the pendulum. Once we understand this universal law, our lives will flow with a greater ease & tranquillity.

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The History of the I-Ching

{ November 14, 2008 @ 5:03 pm } · { I-Ching, Oracles }
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Good morning everyone, hope you all have a wonderful day. Today we are going to discuss a new topic, the World’s Oldest Oracle… The I (pronounced “ee”) Ching.

In Chinese the word I in I-Ching means change. Changed is one of our most basic principles, it is the one thing that is constant. The word Ching means book. So I-Ching translates to Book of Change, it is one of the few books that has survived from the beginning of Chinese history, The I-Ching is believed to be the oldest method of divination in the world. The I-Ching was first used between 1000 and 500 B.C. by shamans, magicians, priests, and soothsayers.

For thousands of years wise people have used the I-Ching to understand the nature of the influences in situations, and to act correctly without having any doubts. You don’t have to be one of these wise people to use the I-Ching, it is very simple. We all have intuitive abilities, even if we haven’t yet learned to use them. Using the I-Ching can help you to unlock these abilities & allow you to have new & deeper insights into life’s inevitable questions.

The word divination comes from the Latin word divus, which means divine or sacred The Chinese believed that to consult the I-Ching was to communicate with the universe’s spiritual forces. However, in the West we tend to not believe what we can’t prove & our usual cause & effect view of the world. Many things happen that can’t be explained, such as you think about a friend & suddenly that friend calls.

The I-Ching works on the basis of what we call synchronicity, the explicable coincidences of life. The word was coined by renowned 20th century European philosopher & psychologist, Carl Jung. The word syn means “together” and chronos “time”: together in time According to Jung “Synchronicity takes the coincidence of events in space & time as meaning something more than mere chance, namely, a peculiar interdependence of objective events among themselves as well as with the subjective (psychic) states of the observer or observers.”

Using the I-Ching is synchronicity in action. All the possible conditions that are represented in the I-Ching by 64 images in life. When we toss the coins (see below) we open ourselves up to accepting what the universe has to offer. We ask our question & the wisdom of the universe responds through the coins. It is the gift of the I-Ching to interpret the meaning of the pattern of the I-Ching

You can be your own psychic advisor. Here are some simple instructions that will help you to make important decisions in your life immediately. Of course you will need to oracle book to interpret the meaning of the coins but we here at Miracles n Magic will be willing to help you with that, just toss your coins & email us the results along with your question & we will be more then happy to tell you its meaning.

The first step is to find six coins all equal in size, 5 of one kind & 1 of another. We reccommand using 5 pennies & 1 dime. The odd cion (the dime) will have a special significance in your reading.

Next take your time, and think about your question. Once you have the question clearly in your mind write it down.

Now, with a sincere attitude & an open mind, hold the coins, relax and take a few slow deep breaths. Shake the coins and drop them on a hard surface.

Next is the tricky part, you want to push the coins into a vertical column. Be sure to keep them in roughly the same order in which they fall. You now have a random assortment of heads and tails the represents the hexagram or image of change. This is the answer to your question

Here is were you will need the Orcale book to determine the answer so, just email us the assortment of heads & tails that you came up with & your question. Also, let us know which position the dime is in because as stated above this plays a significant role in your answer. When counting the position of the dime start at the bottom & move up.

One of our readers, Celestial Powers,  has a few examples of what an I-Ching reading looks like, so check them out. As always if you have any questions feel free to email us at miraclesnmagic@comcast.net