tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-925549664214256461.post1150974055803856686..comments2024-03-24T17:49:05.886-04:00Comments on The Robert Moss BLOG: Lady of I ChingMarcia Mosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04530003059608361331noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-925549664214256461.post-19335881878847689142010-02-11T08:11:37.550-05:002010-02-11T08:11:37.550-05:00Thanks so much, Wanda. I've been struck, in wo...Thanks so much, Wanda. I've been struck, in working with various traditional systems of divination, by how forces that Jungians might call "archetypes" come into play, producing inner and outer events that go beyond the reading itself. Traditional diviners sometimes act in the belief that the casting of a certain pattern actually brings a power of the deeper reality - a god or ancestral spirit or a Greater Trump - into the world of those who are at the present, and may need to be greeted, propitiated or redirected.<br /><br />Last weekend, in the hotel in western New York, I was not thinking of I Ching, let alone casting it. Indeed, it had been months since I last performed a reading. Something from the realm that produced the I Ching came seeking me. So I have returned to starting my days with a simple casting. In my first reading since the visitation by the Yellow Lady, I asked the I Ching to speak to me about our relationship in this new phase. The response -Hexagram 63, with a changing line at the top - was most illuninating. I am reminded that Jung, when asked to wrute a foreword to Richard Wilhelm's edition of the I Ching, cast the coins to invite the oracle to speak for itself and tell him what he needed to know.Robert Mosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09231870716685877709noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-925549664214256461.post-48860623615527348062010-02-11T07:15:06.288-05:002010-02-11T07:15:06.288-05:00I attended only one of your classes and I am light...I attended only one of your classes and I am light years away from your understanding of the I Ching - and of the understanding of those in your class. But this journey and your beautiful evocation of gaining permission to study in the way that grants you real understanding of the images and experiences is exquisite. Thank you for sharing such a personal acceptance and privilege.Wanda Burchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15451187361106279187noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-925549664214256461.post-38321212431328825082010-02-09T07:46:56.174-05:002010-02-09T07:46:56.174-05:00Alla - It seems you are feeling and visioning your...Alla - It seems you are feeling and visioning your way into a direct sense of the processes at work both in I Ching and in DNA. Since I don't have a mathematical mind, I can only grasp these things visually and kinetically. But I'll note a couple of things. First, as is well known, 64 is the number of the hexagrams and also of the combinations of DNA. Second, what mathematicians call the "bifurcation algorithm" is at work both in the I Ching and in DNA, and you may have given us a visual for that.Robert Mosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09231870716685877709noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-925549664214256461.post-79460353127696046442010-02-09T07:30:48.111-05:002010-02-09T07:30:48.111-05:00Nancy, climbing those six steps to the top of the ...Nancy, climbing those six steps to the top of the Watchtower (assisted by creative adaptation of the commentaries on the 6 lines of the 20th hexagram) was one of my all-time favorite group journeys in the cause of rising towards the witness perspective of a Higher Self. Thanks for being part of our excellent and ongoing adventures!<br /><br />JaneE - You are quite right about developing the art of stepping into a hexagram. People who work with tarot may be familiar with the pathworking approach, in which journeys are constructed with chosen cards as portal images. This can be a rich experience. Yet larger and fresher vistas can be opened when we learn to see through the simple patterns of broken and unbroken lines. Philip K. Dick gave us a sense of this in his remarkable novel "The Man in the High Castle", in which the ability to see through the lens of the hexagram called Inner Truth changes the world, effecting a global shift from one parallel reality to another.Robert Mosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09231870716685877709noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-925549664214256461.post-81968594351436139792010-02-09T01:29:24.044-05:002010-02-09T01:29:24.044-05:00It’s fascinating… Many years ago I played with I-C...It’s fascinating… Many years ago I played with I-Ching and tried to feel it. I loved it, but also felt that I need to grow for to see its wisdom better. Not long ago I cleaned the dust on our bookshelf and opened at random one of the books by Masaru Emoto with his water crystals, which I bought as a present for my husband a couple of years ago. I was amazed with one of the pictures. It was the reaction of the water to the Yin-Yang symbol. It gave me chills, because for me it was a clue for my own long-time contemplation on a true monad. Also, it resembled me the picture I gave to you at our playshop, the one with the hearts that my hand drew instead of a written assignment. – So, one half of the water crystal was solid, and the second half was split in two. A few years ago I tried to picture a monad which could have not only black and white, but could also give the idea of a crossover color. Now I saw the monad, which showed a different Yin and Yang idea. Yang was solid, while Yin consisted of a pair of images – solid one and split one. If to continue, then the smaller split Yin would have another pair of solid and split, and so on. It gives the idea of numerology, when one becomes two etc. Also, it gives the idea of a man and a woman, who can give birth. The picture I gave to you had a heart as a root (like the Lord of Sky and his Lady of Earth), which, splitting, showed a solid heart and another one consisted of many little hearts. Drawing it, I didn’t think at all. It just came out by itself. And now I’m reading of the opposites from I-Ching with their dragon tales, intertwisted… Thanks! :-)Allahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03246354719305581718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-925549664214256461.post-25281610268392162262010-02-08T18:01:25.132-05:002010-02-08T18:01:25.132-05:00Beautiful Robert. So, you know I've consulted...Beautiful Robert. So, you know I've consulted the I Ching for over thirty years and for me it is a matter of stepping into the hexagram, into the image, into the world I'm shown, like entering a dream. It's not so much about the words. It's about reading between the lines, the lines as the portal. The lines as the six steps...I love that! What a rich world to enter.Jane Carletonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05641713749105165230noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-925549664214256461.post-12558989575079291932010-02-08T12:21:42.195-05:002010-02-08T12:21:42.195-05:00Robert, having been privileged to be one of your s...Robert, having been privileged to be one of your students in dreaming with the I Ching, this post really speaks to me. Although if you're a rank amateur, I'm barely ready for nursery school! Climbing up the Watchtower reminds me of journeys you've led to our Higher Selves, the part of us having a more panoramic view. I also love the image of consorts wound around each other at the lower chakras, but separate above -- how perfectly fitting. Thank you.<br />NancyNancyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05156176014470929754noreply@blogger.com