What can our Reiki Community Expect for 2014

January 2014

Hello Everyone, and thanks again to our 6 list members who contributed their coin tosses
for this I Ching 2014 reading for the whole Reikialumni community.

The lines of a hexagram are built up from the bottom to the top. Heads and tails are given a numberic value, are added together to determine the nature of a specific line. Heads = 3, Tails = 2, and the totals are 6, 7, 8, or 9. A line with a 6 or 9 is considered excessively yin (6) or yang (9), and these evolve to the stable counterpart for the other polarity. So a 6 changes to a 7, and a 9 changes to an 8. This shift provides a different hexagram and is interpreted as what the first one may be evolving towards. The 'o' on line 6 symbolizes this change from a yang line to a yin one.

Line 6 HHH or 9   --o--   -- -- Submitted by Aylea Allen
Line 5 TTH or 7   -----     ----- Submitted by Jo Rabin
Line 4 THT or 7   -----     ----- Submitted by Amy McCaleb
Line 3 TTH or 7   -----     ----- Submitted by Donna Nicholson
Line 2 HHT or 8  -- --      -- -- Submitted by Mike Soriano
Line 1 HHT or 8  -- --      -- -- Submitted by Brooke Schuster
Hexagrams:           33        31

 Here we look more carefully at each hexagram (H) chapter. Most translations or reinterpretations provide a general contextual overview and also specific interpretations of moving lines.

Note: I will use a constructed pronoun, per, for third person references to he or she. It's the first part of person.

H33: Complying. Complying with per's present situation is the right thing to do. Now, only small goals should be pursued. (Benson).

For the start of the year, then, let's keep our focus on small goals or small wins. A string of these can add up, so take heart if you have a major challenge lurking. As it happens, I've been personally thinking about small wins and came across this acronym from the Meredith Capstone Program: Bridges to a Small Win. [I just looked and this page has been removed from their website. email me if you'd like a copy.]

B = Big Picture of the Big Problem in all its messy complexities
R = Redefining the Problem from several perspectives
I = Identify your opportunity for modest sized, visible actions & results
D = Describe your small win (concrete, complete, implemented outcome of moderate importance)
G = Goal Achieved, Visible Results
E = Evaluation, especially small wins that are present but unnoticed
S = Solutions that preserve gains that don't unravel

A closer look at H33, line 6, which is a moving Yang line, reads: Events change and bring per benefits, more than could be expected in the situation.

"External conditions have changed, but per hasn't changed them. Factors in the past that were restrictions now bring benefits, or perhaps other people now help per to escape restrictions. Per may now even be free to help themselves to some extent. Overall, per is very fortunate that per can surmount per's situation."

This is encouraging. It may take a bit of patience (it is the 6th line after all) but escaping or surmounting our situation can be expected due to external shifts.

We turn now to H31's general description for how to prepare for what may be coming with the change.

H31: Ability to Change Matters. Per has the ability to change matters and per benefits by doing so. Doing this with a partner is even better.

Straightforward and more active than the top line for H33. Get yer done!

Thanks again to our 6 volunteers.

This concludes the experiment.

Have a transformative 2014.

John Perkins
206 524.4496

Source
Benson, Robert G. 2002. I Ching for a New Age: The Book of Answers for Changing Times. Garden City Park, NY: Square One.