Another example reading for you, this one for Jennifer Louden, whom I just introduced. I’m reading for as many of the Festival of Change speakers before the event as would like to be read for – obviously, not everyone has something share-able going on that calls for a reading. But Jen does… she’s moved by a strong sense that change wants to happen, that her work wants to move or evolve and something different wants to emerge, but she’s not clear or confident about its shape.
Hence her question:
‘What’s my next creative calling?‘
Yi answers with Hexagram 21, Biting Through, changing at line 1 to 35, Advancing. I think this is actually answering one of her unasked questions just beneath the surface: she has plenty of ideas, but how to discern? And I think that in another layer, it’s also directly answering the question she asked.
So here’s the reading (right or control click and choose ‘save link as’ or the equivalent to download).
[podcast]http://livingchange.s3.amazonaws.com/I-Ching-for-Jennifer.mp3[/podcast]It launches straight in without the initial ‘hello’s, because we spent the first five minutes or so talking about how dodgy the Skype connection was, and this is not hugely exciting.
And here is a blog post Jen wrote as she was responding to the reading.
Robert Tennyson Stevens is a teacher of what he calls “Sacred Body Language”. In his view, the upper jaw means “thought” or “rationality” while the lower jaw is more connected to spirituality or the subconscious. I thought of Jen’s Hexagram 27, Biting Through, a new way after learning this. Could it mean unifying the conscious and the subconscious?