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Before written history, spiritual leaders used the ancient fires of China to heat and crack tortoise shells for people seeking answers to their spiritual and personal questions. Healers mysteriously read the cracks to tell people their fortunes.
The I Ching emerged from the ancient fires as solid and broken lines mingling to form 64 hexagrams. Each hexagram is uniquely named and carries over 5,000 years of wisdom. Around 1150 B.C., the I Ching was first recorded. Thinkers like Confucius and Lao-Tzu were influenced by these ancient words. Other people shaped nations or families. Even in our modern world, its wisdom rings true.
People seek the I Ching for many reasons. One is to harmonize self capabilities with environmental conditions. Self and environmental harmony is the goal of Heaven to Earth, I Ching. At the core of Heaven to Earth is the Change Cycle, which is an organic arrangement of the 64 hexagrams. Each hexagram flowing to the next. This link is an animation of the Change Cycle. The website's Table of Contents shows the Change Cycle revolutionizing hexagram interpretation.
Heaven to Earth, I Ching accurately captures how events unfold. When we question our problem or desire, we meditate on the factors that set the context (events, people, ideas). Certain factors, some we control and others we do not, affect the situation and question. The question sets time, meaning real events proceeded the situation and certain events follow. What we manifest depends on our participation and available options.
The human condition is mirrored by the 64 hexagrams. The 384 I Ching lines are words of direct action. If it says "bad fortune," then it is wise to not continue. If it says "good fortune," then we can go on safely. Is a wise person one who listens to this ancient wisdom?
Become one with the awesome flow of events in order to express your divine nature. Whether you are a seasoned I Ching sage or surfing through, enter undreamt possibilities with Heaven to Earth, I Ching.
James R. (JR) Wilkinson - All rights reserved (c) 2008 - jrw@changecycle.org - This site was last updated 04/24/10