2013.12.06 19:00 - IChing Birthday Party

Sitting alone I decided to do a pre birthday IChing reading

Coin Toss:

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The Gua: Hexigram #14
stevenaia Michinaga: _____
stevenaia Michinaga: __x__
stevenaia Michinaga: _____
stevenaia Michinaga: ______
stevenaia Michinaga: ______
stevenaia Michinaga: _____
stevenaia Michinaga: Li over Quan / Fire above, Heaven below

stevenaia Michinaga: Da You - Great Havest
stevenaia Michinaga: (the decision)

stevenaia Michinaga: Sublimely prosperous and smooth

stevenaia Michinaga: Fifth Six: Yao Text:
stevenaia Michinaga: Sincere and Truthful communication
stevenaia Michinaga: Makes dignity shine through
stevenaia Michinaga: good fortune

stevenaia Michinaga: hi San
stevenaia Michinaga: I am doing my birthday Iching reading :)
Santoshima Resident: oh, please continue
Santoshima Resident: happy birthday!
stevenaia Michinaga: tomorrow
stevenaia Michinaga: in preparation for what may come
Santoshima Resident: hmm, how's hthat look?
stevenaia Michinaga: quite positive
Santoshima Resident: oh good
stevenaia Michinaga: yes
Santoshima Resident: i caught a little of it
stevenaia Michinaga: nods
stevenaia Michinaga: do you have an Iching book handy?
Santoshima Resident: nope sorry
Santoshima Resident: am away from my iChing book
stevenaia Michinaga: this one may be different, I ahve a link to a different translation, sometime I compare
Santoshima Resident: there is the internet, though
stevenaia Michinaga: one moment
Santoshima Resident: okie doke
Santoshima Resident: { another mention while waiting ... could the person responsible please make the outside of the image enircling thepool transparent?
Santoshima Resident: it iplease?}

--BELL--
stevenaia Michinaga:

http://www.wisdomportal.com/IChing/IChing-Wilhelm.html#14
Santoshima Resident: clicking
stevenaia Michinaga: I thought it was (before)
Santoshima Resident: correction: bnot transparent ... please make it invisiblwe
Santoshima Resident: invisible
Santoshima Resident: that's the request
stevenaia Michinaga: aww, nods
stevenaia Michinaga: do you know who put it up? I;m sure Storm can take it down
Santoshima Resident: interesting hexigram
Santoshima Resident: um, well, some might want it up
stevenaia Michinaga: perhaps he can program it as an optin like the fountain
Santoshima Resident: that a grat idea
Santoshima Resident: AND make the outside invisible
Santoshima Resident: grat = great
stevenaia Michinaga: so, more more part of the reading
Santoshima Resident: what do you make of the birthday reading?
Santoshima Resident: feels like it should have more exclamations points thrown into it ... so positive
stevenaia Michinaga: I am quite pleased with it, I usually wait and see, but I let the reading wrap me in a way and wear it as beast I can
Santoshima Resident: right
stevenaia Michinaga: this part of the reading is representing the present
Santoshima Resident: i see
stevenaia Michinaga: the next part is what;s ahead
Santoshima Resident: there's more?
Santoshima Resident: ok
stevenaia Michinaga: in the reading there was a changing line in the 5th position which generates another Gua:
Santoshima Resident: hmm

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Santoshima Resident: all long lines?
stevenaia Michinaga: yes
stevenaia Michinaga: yang lines
Lucinda Lavender: ooop[s
Santoshima Resident: hello Lucinda :)
stevenaia Michinaga: representing Quan over Quan.. Heaven over heaven, or the Gaua #1
Santoshima Resident: stevenaia is reading his birthday iChing hexigram
Lucinda Lavender: Hello san and stevenaia
Santoshima Resident: for tomorrow
Santoshima Resident: today
Lucinda Lavender: ah! very nice
Santoshima Resident: what does that mean stevie?
stevenaia Michinaga: Hi luci, I am doing my Birthday IChing Reading
Lucinda Lavender: carry on...sorry I fogot where I was supposed to be
Santoshima Resident: where are you luci?
Lucinda Lavender: home at the kitchen table
Santoshima Resident: hmm
Santoshima Resident: and your picture of yourself?
stevenaia Michinaga: that'ts the representation of the lines, it generates a Decision or Judgement from the IChing text
Santoshima Resident: who is associated with these text exchange?
Santoshima Resident: reading ...
Santoshima Resident: decision
Santoshima Resident: or judgement
stevenaia Michinaga: Qian - "Initiating" is the name of this
stevenaia Michinaga: The Decision:
stevenaia Michinaga: Initiating
Santoshima Resident: ah there you are
Santoshima Resident: in your virtual pjs

stevenaia Michinaga: Sublime and initiative
stevenaia Michinaga: Prosperous and smooth
stevenaia Michinaga: Favorable and Beneficial

Santoshima Resident: click a pillow, luci
Santoshima Resident: ood to see you
Santoshima Resident: ood = good
stevenaia Michinaga: Steadfast and Upright
Lucinda Lavender: trouble getting in
Santoshima Resident: hi paradise
Santoshima Resident: welcome
Lucinda Lavender: hi para!
Paradise Tennant: hiya luci san stev :))
stevenaia Michinaga: , then I usually write this in my little IChing notebook and look at it now and then until the next reading
stevenaia Michinaga: I didn;t expect such a crowd tnight :)
Santoshima Resident: seems an excecllent method
Santoshima Resident: make that 'excellent"
stevenaia Michinaga: nice to have company, I usually do this along
stevenaia Michinaga: alone, nice to explain it as I go
stevenaia Michinaga: helps me :)
stevenaia Michinaga: hi Para
Santoshima Resident: please continue steve
stevenaia Michinaga: here is the other translation for this chapter
stevenaia Michinaga:
http://www.wisdomportal.com/IChing/IChing-Wilhelm.html#1
Paradise Tennant: smiles and clicks
--BELL--
Lucinda Lavender: any moving lines?
Lucinda Lavender: 6 and 9 can change...
stevenaia Michinaga: in the 1st reading the 5th line was
stevenaia Michinaga: http://www.wisdomportal.com/IChing/IChing-Wilhelm.html#14
stevenaia Michinaga: this generated the second reading above
stevenaia Michinaga: with the 5th like changing from yin to yang
Lucinda Lavender: the creative is such a powerful statement for a birthday...
Paradise Tennant: smiles !!!!!!!
stevenaia Michinaga: brb, making tea
Santoshima Resident: me too
Lucinda Lavender: I forget...if one is supposed to read the image or judgement for the first hexagram....and what to read for the second hegagram created out of the changing lines...
stevenaia Michinaga: preheating teapot, then I will preheat my Zabars coffee mug for the tea, :)
Lucinda Lavender: :) happy birthday
Lucinda Lavender: when ever it arrives
Paradise Tennant: smiles happy happy birthday !!! tomorrow !!!! stev :)))))
Lucinda Lavender: should I claim the session i wonder
stevenaia Michinaga: I have but you are welcome to
stevenaia Michinaga: (thinking no one would be here)
Lucinda Lavender: ah...i was forgetting it might be my off week
stevenaia Michinaga: I actually forget last week, I don;t know if anyone showed, sorrry Luci
stevenaia Michinaga: that was your week off
Santoshima Resident: wb luci
--BELL--
Lucinda Lavender: sorry...if I click on the edge of my window i get a flashing situation with no ability to communicate in the chat box
stevenaia Michinaga: we hear you now
Santoshima Resident: wierd
Lucinda Lavender: it has been happening for a couple months
Santoshima Resident: it locks up?
Lucinda Lavender: i have to be very careful not to change the window size of secondlife...yes and flashes
Santoshima Resident: what viewer?
Lucinda Lavender: then I have to force quit
Lucinda Lavender: sl 2
Santoshima Resident: hmm. might need to upgrade
Lucinda Lavender: ok
stevenaia Michinaga: I use Firestore on a Mac
Santoshima Resident: try firestorm 4.4234167
Santoshima Resident: mac
Lucinda Lavender: thanks
Lucinda Lavender: what about the creative?...
stevenaia Michinaga: soemtiems I ahve to many programs open and it frezzes a bit but haven;t crashed in a while
stevenaia Michinaga: well I am an a creative flow lately
stevenaia Michinaga: so the reading is reflective of that
Santoshima Resident: :)
Lucinda Lavender: wow...
stevenaia Michinaga: and the second part, #1 is more of what's to come
Lucinda Lavender: the creative alters and shapes beings until each attains its true nature, then keeping them in true harmony
Lucinda Lavender: sorry...great Harmony
Lucinda Lavender: can you say more about your last comment
Lucinda Lavender: stevenaia...
stevenaia Michinaga: my first throw was #14, in my translation , the IChing book that Pila helped editied said #14 Hexigram was titled "Great Harvest"
stevenaia Michinaga: Sublimely prosperous and smooth
stevenaia Michinaga: or Seeking HArmony is another translation
Lucinda Lavender: oh...I see sorry I thought it was number 1
stevenaia Michinaga: the second reading was number 1
Lucinda Lavender: oh!
Lucinda Lavender: ok
stevenaia Michinaga: it was generated by the moving lines of the reading, the fith line changed from yin to yanf, creating the second reading of all yang lines
stevenaia Michinaga: if that makes sense :)
Lucinda Lavender: yes:) 14 changing to 1?
stevenaia Michinaga: each reading generates 6 lines or a Gua
stevenaia Michinaga: yes
--BELL--
Lucinda Lavender: possession in great measure changing to the creative
stevenaia Michinaga: soemtimes there is no second gao as the are no changing lines
Lucinda Lavender: are there certain parts of the image that speak to you?
stevenaia Michinaga: sometimes you can immerse yourself in the interpretations, like the Dao deChing, it;s poerty that means more or less depending how the word resonate with you, each reading, each time means different things to you or me or anyone else
stevenaia Michinaga: makes for something nice and of great value sometimes
stevenaia Michinaga: I think the more time you spend with it the more meaning it conveys
Lucinda Lavender: It looks like with 14 it is heaven below and the clinging(flame) above...quite an energy
Lucinda Lavender: things standing out in light
Lucinda Lavender: becoming manifest
Lucinda Lavender: like a birthday candle
stevenaia Michinaga: nods
stevenaia Michinaga: I suually go back before my next reading and what has happened since my last, it could be a few weeks or a month or so
stevenaia Michinaga: so it's like guidance for what's ahead and a look back later
Lucinda Lavender: nodding
Santoshima Resident: hope you have a wonderful day, stevenaia ~ enjoyment in the day and for this new year, health joy love
Paradise Tennant: smiles nite nite san :)))
stevenaia Michinaga: thank you San,
Paradise Tennant: sweet dreams :)
Santoshima Resident: peace ~
stevenaia Michinaga: Luci, did you ever attend any of Pila's iChing sessions?
Lucinda Lavender: a few...
stevenaia Michinaga: :)
Lucinda Lavender: I am somewhat familiar from reading and using i ching in college
--BELL--
Paradise Tennant: i have not done a reading in a long time
stevenaia Michinaga: did you take a college class in it?
stevenaia Michinaga: or jsut one of those college things
Lucinda Lavender: well in the year I stuied Freud and Jung an approach to the humanities...there was a whole quarter of major hero journeys...
Lucinda Lavender: it was part of that quarter..along with the Bible and other things
Lucinda Lavender: the images were very attracting to me
Lucinda Lavender: i could feel them making sense
stevenaia Michinaga: I love when that happens
Lucinda Lavender: giving guidance
Lucinda Lavender: or strength
stevenaia Michinaga: and meaning
Lucinda Lavender: meaning yes
Lucinda Lavender: natural images building up through the lines
Lucinda Lavender: they just spoke to me I guess
Lucinda Lavender: out of randomness
Lucinda Lavender: or so it seems
stevenaia Michinaga: Just wonders why it takes so long in one's life to find those things that speak to me
stevenaia Michinaga: until you find it, then it time no longer matters, you find , not what you are looking for but that resonates
Lucinda Lavender: times of having the sense that there is an unfolding...and then it changes in appearance again
Lucinda Lavender: it gives guidance as well as allows you to look inside and see what resonates with the hexagram ...
Lucinda Lavender: "what could I learn here?"
stevenaia Michinaga: I think I need to get to bed
stevenaia Michinaga: night my friends
Lucinda Lavender: :00 sweet dreams:)
Lucinda Lavender: :)
--BELL--
Paradise Tennant: nite nite stev
Lucinda Lavender: time for some rest...
Lucinda Lavender: sweet dreams paradise
Paradise Tennant: you too luci