I Ching

Hi there welcome to the I Ching Cafe and my name is Belinda Dovesden and I am delighted that you are here with me for our weekly I Ching forecast in this case the recommencing the 21st of September 2026.

Last week we had the return of the family.

Learning how to deal with hierarchy in our clan, working with others, being productive, being harmonious and being the moms, being that female energy and with our arms all the way around the clan.

To these important works, Ultima Thula, of Chinese learning, he must now devote himself, and the remainder of life is considered none too long to fathom their deeper mysteries.

confucius great philosopher though he was was also and essentially a chinaman and with all the reverence for authority typical of his race even in his day five hundred years b c books were preserved and studied that had come down through long ages some of which dated back over two thousand years before the christian era confucius was wise enough to see that if he could make these valued documents a basis for his own teachings he would gain the ear of his countrymen more effectively than in any other way consequently his chief work was that of an editor reviving and re-issuing the literary treasures of a bygone time always with his own extensive comments the verdict of centuries has proved the wisdom of the sage for to this day the five classics compiled by confucius stand unquestioned in the estimate of his people as the noblest utterances of man supported by the authority of preceding generations and leaving nothing to be added to the end of time At the head of the five classics is placed the Book of Changes, a vast philosophical mystery esteemed by Chinese scholars as the consummation of all wisdom.

This obscure treatise consists of 64 short essays of moral, social, and political character.

Introductory to each essay stands a symbolic figure composed of six short parallel lines, some whole and some divided.

The boys, as they grew up, all gave promise of ability, and Mr. Shee had the satisfaction of seeing them complete their university training with unusual success.

The eldest brother brought honor to the clan by carrying off a high degree, and the second and third obtained their B.A. with distinction.

meanwhile the youngest brother with whom we are chiefly concerned was bidding fair to follow in their footsteps he was a bright merry little fellow though serious at times beyond his years even in early childhood strange questions perplexed him and the fear of death shadowed the future with mystery and terror nobody knew it children do not speak of these things but far away in heathen lands just as at home little minds puzzle wistfully over the great problems of existence Little hearts suffer empathetic silence.

Grown-up people forget, or do not comprehend.

And because as Chiron makes his return, he's moving through the gate three innovation, gate three kind of belongs to the energy of beginnings, right? So in the ending is a beginning, right? Endings and beginnings all mishmash together here in this gate three.

And it's sometimes a gate that's called, in fact, this is from the I Ching, difficulty at the beginning, right? Because beginnings are rarely orderly, right? When we're starting something new, you know, it's like trial and error, right? We have issues that pop up.

We have things that happen.

And, you know, we tried that.

You do stand to gain from huge solutions or opportunities.

This week, I'll give you an I Ching reading, and you can decode the modern I Ching at jessicaadams.com. Aries, stepping.

Taurus, grass.

Gemini, elegance.

And then a superficial understanding.

He actually carried Crowley's I Ching sticks, which is something you kind of as a divination experience.

are into item.

So the connection between the rites of Eleusis, Newburgh, Leary, and then into the 60s is really interesting.

yeah it's exploded it just exploded i couldn't help myself that's perfect

yeah the ancient characters refer to this periodic atomic weight and the table and yeah they they got it yeah so yeah that that story huh um so yeah yin and yang and this idea um in ancient china even before kind of the idea of practice of medicine was the um It was the I Ching, the classic of changes and the hexagrams and this idea of the trigrams and this expression of a numerological understanding, the expression of all that can come to be in the universe and has been and is.

And it comes, again, from that one to the two to the three to the 10,000 things.

And so if we take that framework, it's my thought and opinion and feeling that when we apply that to the human body, we can look at, yeah, the 10,000 things.

So we would try to get from conceptualization to a finished idea as quickly as possible with a set of dogmatic rules that sort of informed how the piece had to be.

It had to be no less than two voices, no more than three, had to have at least three scenes, had to be conjured from some sort of divining device, like a tarot deck or an I Ching or something like this.

And it honed these skills of A, being able to write very quickly and also being able to edit very quickly.

And one of the things that's glorious about that is that those sort of improvisational skills are very useful when you're trying to break a story, but they're also very useful when you're trying to...