The Grand Diviner Divines the Hurricane: Water Penetrates the Earth

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The Grand Diviner Divines the Hurricane: Water Penetrates the Earth
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> >Hurricane Ike edges towards Galveston Texas just 2 days after The Great Galveston Hurricane of September 8, 1900
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Divination One: Should an appropriate sacrifice be made to Guan Yin?

Answer: Hexagram 8, no moving lines: Water penetrates the earth is the theme of this inquiry, also the divination will be successful(the diviner attaining power and blessed by the offerings to the Merciful and Compassionate One and it is a joyous matter) but the problem presented is intricate so you must inquire again.
> Appropriate sacrifices were made to Guan Yin, and to the deities of the
> southern direction. The diviner is using Book III, the Commentaries
> which she believes is actually the Guicang.

> Divination Two: Will not Galveston, Texas. suffer a disaster in the next 10
> days?
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Answer: Hexagram 14: 3, 4, 5 - 58
>
> General Notes: The diviner is moving in harmony with the problem.
> (Fire penetrating to heaven is the mystical fire of divination). Noting
> again, the problem is intricate. The Sage says: "Please study the nuclear trigrams of
> ch'ien and t'ui for elucidation:"
>
The Chi'en trigram is doubled (lower primary trigram and the lower nuclear trigram.) The movement is extremely forceful and represents the forward, ever forward 'flow of time.' That means the hexagram itself is offering a time frame for the hurricane's arrival itself on the Texas coast (northern Gulf of Mexico).
> chi'en: the four yang lines exemplify a continuous relationship among them. They are very strong lines which progress forwards with great strength. Movement in a hexagram is read upwards, so the advancing line (the line closest to the top) is the 4th line. It is the hurricane reaching shore. 4 into 10 days (I used the Shang 10 day week in asking the question) so 4 into 10 = 2 and 1/2 days until the hurricane strikes.


> t'ui: the hurricane will manifest in the area. Its quality is cutting and destroying. (that's pretty obvious but hurricanes often sit off shore and wait until a path appears for them. They are very dangerous and erratic at this point) The storm surge is now only estimated to be 5 feet but the storm may rapidly intensify. If the storm hits Galveston Bay there will be a funnel effect and the waters may approach 14-20 feet. This is a type of tsunami, Hurricane Katrina had a surge of 24 feet.
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>
> (Li appears as the outer, upper trigram in its 'clear and ordered form')
> This is referring to the diviner and the divination processs as being
> extremley blessed by heaven. It really has no major bearing on the
> reading)
>
> 14:5X (Hexagram 14, line 5)At this point sacrifices should be made,
> using as a guide the trigrams that overlap at this line, Tui and Chi'en.
> The Queen Mother of the Western Mountain is the appropriate deity in the
> case of Tui but who is Chi'en??? Does he have a cell number??

 

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Hurricane Ike Zeros in on Galveston, Texas

[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][SIZE=+1]The Sisters of Charity Orphanage[/SIZE][/FONT]

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[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]The Ceremony [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][SIZE=-1]As they have done for many years, members of the Sisters of Charity of Galveston -- along with all Sister of Charity throughout the world -- gathers each year to honor the 10 nuns and 90 orphans who lost their lives in the Great Storm.[/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][SIZE=-1]The site is marked by a historical marker near 69th Street and Seawall Boulevard, in front of Wal-Mart Supercenter.[/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][SIZE=-1]When the storm hit on Sept. 8, 1900, the nuns and the children were at St. Mary's Orphan Asylum near 69th Street and what is now Seawall Boulevard.[/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][SIZE=-1]As the flood waters rose, the nuns took the children to the second floor of the girls' dormitory, where each sister used clothesline to connect a string of children to her waist. Both buildings of the orphanage collapsed that evening, killing all but three people.[/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][SIZE=-1]The ceremony each year includes a wreath-laying and prayer time.[/SIZE][/FONT]

[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][SIZE=-1] [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Wherever they are in the world on Sept. 8, the members of the Congregation of the Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word sing an old French hymn, "Queen of the Waves."[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Whether in their ministry in rural Kenya, East Africa or one of the hospitals of the Sisters of Charity Health Care System, which they sponsor, the Sisters of Charity sing the same hymn that has been sung on that date every year since 1900.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]The song provides the sisters and all those who co-minister with them an opportunity to pause and remember all who lost their lives in a devastating hurricane almost a century ago.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Striking Galveston on Sept. 8, 1900, the Great Storm is considered the worst natural disaster in the nation's history.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]More than 6,000 men, women and children lost their lives. Among the dead were 10 sisters and 90 children from the St. Mary's Orphans Asylum, operated by the Sisters of Charity.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]The sisters also operated St. Mary's Infirmary in Galveston. It was the first Catholic hospital in the state, established in 1867.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]The sisters were called to Galveston by Catholic Bishop Claude M. Dubuis in 1866 to care for the many sick and infirm in what was the major port of entry for Texas. They were also charged with caring for orphaned children, most of whom had lost parents during yellow fever epidemics.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]At first the Sisters of Charity opened an orphanage within the hospital, but later moved it three miles to the west on beach-front property on the former estate of Captain Farnifalia Green.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]The location seemed ideal as it was far from town and the threat of yellow fever.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]As Galveston entered the new millennium, it was one of the wealthiest cities per capita in the United States and one of the largest in the state.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]It was a prosperous community with a bustling port. With a population of 36,000, Galveston appeared to be poised for greatness.[/FONT]
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[/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]And then one weekend in September in 1900, the same proximity to the sea that had made the community grow and prosper as a port city, was to change Galveston Island forever. On Sept. 8, Galveston became the victim of a powerful hurricane of such destructive force that whole blocks of homes were completely swept away and one sixth of population was killed.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Beginning early on the morning of Saturday, Sept. 8, 1900, the winds began coming in strongly from the north. Despite the opposing winds, the tides of the southern gulf waters also rose sending large crashing waves upon the beach front.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Sister Elizabeth Ryan, one of 10 sisters at St. Mary's Orphanage, had come into town that morning to collect food. Despite pleas from Mother Gabriel, the assistant superior at St. Mary's Infirmary, for her to stay at the hospital until the storm passed, Sister Elizabeth said she had to return to the orphanage.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Sister Elizabeth said that she had the provisions in the wagon and if she did not return the children would have no supper. She didn't know that whether she returned or not there would be no more suppers at the orphanage.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]During the afternoon the winds and rain continued to increase. The tides of the gulf rose higher and higher with fierce waves crashing on the beach sending flood waters into the residential areas.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]St. Mary's Orphanage consisted of two large two-story dormitories just off the beach behind a row of tall sand dunes that were supported by salt cedar trees. The buildings had balconies facing the gulf.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]According to one of the boys at the orphanage, the rising tides began eroding the sand dunes "as though they were made of flour." Soon the waters of the gulf reached the dormitories.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]The Sisters at the orphanage brought all of the children into the girls' dormitory because it was the newer and stronger of the two. In the first floor chapel, they tried to calm the children by having them sing "Queen of the Waves." The waters continued to rise.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Taking the children to the second story of the dormitory, the Sisters had Henry Esquior, a worker, collect clothesline rope. Again they had the boys and girls sing "Queen of the Waves."[/FONT]
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Seeking the Cerulean Dragon, Daughter Safe

-The Sacrifice: an offering of thanks was made to Guan Yin, the protector of women and unborn children. The offering was orange candles in orange votives, jasmine blossoms from the garden and yes, the perfect and luscious brown turkey figs. Sweet miniature figs. (FYI) after the offering these figs can be eaten but it is customary to offer some outside in the garden to what is called 'hungry ghosts' Who knows, every time I think something is superstitious it turns out to be true. The direction of the altar was West, the direction of Tui. Tui has been a predominant factor throughout this divination. Because the color of this direction is white, we offer the white jasmine blossoms and hope that their scent spirals to her abode in the Kunlun Shan. Outside, above the pyramid, is a pine singing in the wind. Sacred to the Shang, the natural musical sounds are interspersed with a few temple bells that the wind occasionally agitates and then there is a bamboo wind chime, making a beautiful woody sound (Tui is also wood, isn't she???), it seems counterpoint to the main music of the pine tree which sings Tao gloriously.

The offering to chien remains-the hurricane is like 4 dragons spiraling around each other and moving forward. Surprisingly little intensification has occurred and the top winds remain for now around 100 mph.

There remains a terrible flooding, a tsunami storm surge now estimated to the same as was Katrina's - 25 feet/ So tonight what entity would be appropriate to represent Chien? How about a dragon coming from the north or north east, or nor, nor east as we say in nautical terms. Perhaps it is the Cerulean Dragon of Luis. That is where my thoughts go tonight. The loss of animal life will be significant and humans seem impervious to their suffering. I know one person wrote me and was worried for the oil rigs. goodness, goodness, get a horse This dragon could stand in opposition to the four dragons who seem to be circling each other, the tails of each in the mouth of each dragon. They are pure energy, beautiful in their dance of death, pure yang, pure tao. And there will be people who will stay behind and suffer terrible consequences. I myself will help them!!

 

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Fire In Heaven: The divination is accurate

Daughter & Family Safe in Lafayette, LA, Grand daughter found with Dad leaving Bay Town , Texas just hours before the eye crossed the town and the flood waters rose to 12 feet in Galveston Bay.


>
> > Appropriate sacrifices were made to Guan Yin, and to the deities
of the
> > southern direction. The diviner is using Book III, the Commentaries
> > which she believes is actually the Guicang.
> >
> > Divination One: Should an appropriate sacrifice be made to Guan Yin?
> >
First: The offering and and altar have been cleaned and arranged.
Guan Yin is flanked by two white candles. Six orange votives will be
lit to honor each line of a hexagram and to honor the I Ching diviners
now in the Invisible World. The color orange is for the hexagram of
diviners, 30. Various pictures of those in peril are nestled under
Guan Yin.
I bathe completely and with attention to ridding myself of any
stagnant things such as dead skin, ridding oneself of fear.

My daughter calls frantically she has made it out to LA but my-Grand daughter stranded on the coast. I find her by patching through an abandoned EMT station to Bay Port, Texas. They have decided to flee just 4 hours in advance of the vanguard, or 4th line of Hexagram 14. I think they are impressed I was able to do this! Further thanks to Guan Yin in this case.



Divination One: Q. Should not an offering be made to Guan Yin?
A. Hexagram 8 no moving lines: also the
> > divination will be successful(the diviner attaining power and it is a
> > joyous matter) but the problem presented is intricate so you must
> > inquire again.
> >
Water penetrates the earth

> > Divination Two: Will not Galveston suffer a disaster in the next 10
> > days?
> >
> > Hexagram 14: 3, 4, 5 - 58 Tui
> >
> > General Notes: The diviner is moving in harmony with the problem.
> > (Fire penetrating to heaven is the mystical fire of divination).
Again,the I Ching notes that the problem is intricate. Please study the nuclear trigrams of ch'ien and t'ui for elucidation, the Sage whispers. Water penetrates the earth is the meaning of Tui.
>
The Four Dragons Spiraling>
> > chi'en: the 4 yang lines exemplify a continuous relationship
among (not the usual lines of correspondence, etc, found in a hexagram)
> > them. They are very strong lines which progress forwards with great
> > strength.
> >
> > t'ui: the hurricane will manifest in the area. Its quality is
cutting > > and destroying. IN a public announcement at this time, the government warns of certain death if one stays.
> >
> > The Chi'en trigram is doubled (lower primary trigram and the lower
> > nuclear trigram.) The movement is extremely forceful and
represents the > forward, ever forward 'flow of time.' That means the hexagram
itself is > > offering a time frame for the hurricane itself in Galveston. I asked
> > using a 10 day time period (the Shang week was 10 days). We will use
> > the 4th yang line This is a guess: 4 into 10 days. The yang
lines are the four dragons, spiraling madly around each other. They will
> > will enter the area as a hurricane in 2.2 days. (Since the hexagram is read from the 4th line as it makes landfall. (this divination was actually made 4 days in advance of the hurricane where no one knew where it would go)
> >
> > (Li appears as the outer, upper trigram in its 'clear and ordered
form')
> > This is referring to the diviner and the divination process as being
> > extremely blessed by heaven. It really has no major bearing on the
> > reading) yet it is the hexagram of a grand divination
> >
> > 14:5X (Hexagram 14, line 5)At this point sacrifices should be made,
> > using as a guide the trigrams that overlap at this line, Tui and
Chi'en.
> > The Queen Mother of the Western Mountain is the appropriate deity
in the > > case of Tui but who is Chi'en??? Chien,of course are the four yang lines of the hexagram, the hurricane itself. The dragons make me fearful
> >

-The Sacrifice: an offering of thanks was made to Guan Yin, the
protector of women and unborn children. The offering was orange
candles in orange votives, jasmine blossoms from the garden and yes,
the perfect and luscious brown turkey figs. . The direction of the altar was West, the direction of Tui. Tui has been a predominant factor throughout this divination.
Because the color of this direction is white, we offer the white
jasmine blossoms and hope that their scent spirals to her abode in the
Kunlun Shan. Outside, above the pyramid, is a pine singing in the
wind. Sacred to the Shang, the natural musical sounds are
interspersed with a few temple bells that the wind occasionally
agitates and then there is a bamboo wind chime, making a beautiful
woody sound (Tui is also wood, isn't she???), it seems counterpoint to
the main music of the pine tree which sings Tao gloriously.

The offering to chien remains-the hurricane is like 4 dragons
spiraling around each other and moving forward. Surprisingly little
intensification has occurred and the top winds remain for now around
100 mph. To be feared the most is the storm surge. There may be a tsumani-type wall of water of 25 feet. This is feared by all of us who know hurricanes the most of all. Katrina had such a surge and wiped out coastal Mississippi in one blow.

I want to mitigate the power of the 4 dragons. Would it be possible? The loss of animal life will be significant and humans
seem impervious to their suffering. I know one person wrote me and
was worried for the oil rigs. goodness, goodness, get a horse


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> {The hurricane will make landfall in a few hours, the eye will cross around 2:30AM CST} It is a dangerous and difficult time, Tui is the place and time of death as water penetrates the earth.

Cranes, cranes, and hurricanes: Don't forget other sentinent life now being stressed to the max in the Gulf of Mexico:
Can its voice be heard among the inferno of 100 mile an hour winds?

The northern Gulf of Mexico and the contiguous wetlands of MS, LA, represent millions of years of drainage by the Mighty Mississippi River and its various outlets to the Gulf. The river has only been stopped from changing course in modern times. is home to the extremely endangered Sandhill Crane is one such creature.


This caring person writes:

WHEN HURRICANE KATRINA struck the Gulf Coast, it was one more challenge to the survival of a severely endangered species, the Mississippi sandhill crane. Among all endangered species, the most vulnerable are those that survive in small numbers living within a limited range. The crane is one of these creatures. Scarcely more than 100 remain in the wild, all on a national wildlife refuge named for them.
The Mississippi sandhill population now stands at about 135 birds in the wild, with 25 breeding pairs on the refuge.


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The Grand Diviner Divines the Hurricane: Care & Sorrow

The Grand Diviner Divines: Extreme Wind, Water, Thunder, & Lightning.
Occasion for Care and Sorrow: The Grand Diviner is utilizing Book III, the Commentaries of Nauxian, Wilhelm, and Baynes which she believes to be the Guicang.


*Now, we move into uncharted areas in divination practice. That is co-creating with the Universe. Is there a way I can make the outcome better? That is to say, Galveston Bay will act as a funnel for the storm surge-a wall of water and death and destruction will occur if this storm on its right side enters the Bay. Can the Grand Diviner have any effect on this at all, is this work not blessed by heaven and are not the forces in the Invisible World being now marshaled against this occurrence? Maybe, maybe no, but its interesting.

Miscellaneous Notes: The candles of the altar has been have been lit
and the prayers made. The prayer is one of gratitude dedicated to the
immortals of the I Ching in the Invisible Realm, "Thank you for giving
me the opportunity to participate with you in this way."

Q. I seek the influences surrounding the reading

A. Hexagram 49: 5 - 55


The Well must be cleaned out of all the accumulated mud and begins
again . (likely the idea of Revolution is indicated by this although
the trigram has more meaning in this reading. Tui the upper, outer
trigram stands in the West with the White Tiger. The season is Autumn.

The energies: There is strong, forward movement of Wind and Water.
Thunder and Lightning are in great measure. These 4 elements are at
their extremes and posses great power. The storm will soon be at its
height. There is occasion for care and sorrow.

St Petersburg, Florida, Saturday, September 13, 2008, 3:40 AM EST
Divination Three
Q. Can the storm surge be averted? I inquire about the expected 25 foot storm surge being funneled into Galveston Bay inland. (This is by far the greatest danger and is
similar to the peril caused by Hurricane Katrina. More people die in
floods in hurricanes than by wind.) I inquire with a mind to asking
the deities to shift the eye of the storm away from the mouth of the
bay. The surge is imminent yet there is time for slight shift
especially towards the east which is far less populated.


Miscellaneous notes:
I Ching practitioners co-create with the universe when they, by
divination, change the outcome of things. The Great Commentary
explains it thus: "...[the Changes] reveals the meaning of events in
the universe and thereby imparts a divine mystery to the nature and
action of the person who puts his trust in it, so that he or she is
enabled to meet every event in the right way and even to aid the gods
in governing the world."
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A. Hexagram 50: 3, 5 - 6

Miscellaneous notes: another sacrifice is appropriate. The truly
divine does not manifest itself apart from the human being - see
Hexagram 52, WB, Book III.

One must bring life and fate into harmony. The way for doing this is
contained in the secret practices of Internal Alchemy.

Line 5 moving - repeated shocks, no breathing space for the victims.
Everyone must hunker down to avoid being tossed hither and thither.

Line 6 moving: The trigrams Chen, above and Kan below mean strength
above, danger below. Movement extremely dangerous and will lead to
life threatening entrapment.

So far, great unhappiness is coming. The surge will enter the Bay.

The Diviner has stopped for another sacrifice. Divination in one hour.

 

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The Small Sacrifice:

The Grand Diviner, now exhausted, seeks the
favor of heaven in averting the tsunami. What sacrifice is
appropriate? I offer the heartfelt sacrifice because it is humble and
sincere. The sacrifice comes from the heart and 'God looks into the
heart."

Diviner's notes: The Pig That Was Slaughtered in the Small Sacrifice
(Hexagram 63:5)

Hexagram 63, which refers directly to Wu Ting in line 3, says in
line 5 that the sacrifice was a pig. The pig was a sincere offering
even though small when compared to the "neighbor's offering of an ox
performed by an "eastern neighbor." Because they offered a pig at
precisely the right time, they experienced greater happiness.

In the times of Wu Ting customs of graveside ritual offerings of
liquids from the pig's body, pig skulls, and pig jaws were still
observed. The custom it is said, began in Neolithic times. The pig
may represent an offering to the deceased Fu Tzu in the pictures below
or it commemorate the victory over the demon-lands.
The line points to an elaborate sacrifice and other outward
displays that were performed by the eastern neighbor. Directly above
the pig is a circular symbol that perhaps represents the jaw of a pig
which was part of the offering ceremony. Below, rubbings from tomb 5
bronze vessels or ku vessels depicting the sacrifice.



Wu Ting, it said in Hexagram 63, gave the dynasty of Yin (Shang)
its most important victory. The Book of History attributes the
conquest of the demon-lands (the Huns of the north) in three years to
a war that occurred during his reign. Line 5 refers to the pig
sacrifice which is successful, although modest, because the pig is
offered with sincerity of heart.
Q. Can the storm surge be averted?

A. No Hexagram 64: 1, 3 - 14 Traversing the danger of Kan
(lower trigram) does not succeed. There is the faintest hope of success.

Diviner's Notes: the lower trigram Kan, moving lines in the 1st and 3rd are exceptionally interesting. The trigram represents land in the 1st and 3rd lines. Since these lines move, can one see the land being overcome by water?? Very interesting

Epilogue: coming


14: The divination is complete, and accurate, blessed by heaven.