Welcome to this reading for hexagram 25 of the I Ching entitled Correctness.
Let's take a minute or two to prepare the body and mind to receive the transmission from this ancient wisdom.
When we are deeply relaxed we can open our heart,
We can hear our inner self,
Our inner knowingness.
So do for yourself now what you need to,
What supports you to relax more and to create comfort and ease for yourself.
Use the breath,
Use intention and perhaps even visualization,
Inviting a gentle slow rhythm of breathing in and out.
In and out,
Like the waves flowing,
Rippling.
And as the breath moves effortlessly,
Intentionally welcome in relaxation into your muscles,
Muscles of the body and of the face.
And feeling an expansion through the physical body,
Through the mind and through the energy body.
Breathing into the heart center,
A gentle color and feel that vibration of color radiates throughout all particles,
Cells,
Layers and levels of your being.
Grounding down,
Connecting to the earth and lifting up as you connect with the sky,
With the heavens.
Dropping your awareness into your core as you now set the intention to trust that you will respond to the parts of this transmission that you feel and know are in alignment with you and your needs right now.
Trusting your own inner awareness,
Your intuitive responses.
Just allow the first responses to unfold in a natural way.
Sometimes this can be quite abstract.
So release the need for expectations and for understanding perfectly consciously,
Immediately.
Allow the unfolding to be part of the experience.
You can affirm that with a yes.
Then release that and bring an openness and a gentleness into your mind's eye,
Creating space.
As we now move into the symbolic trigrams of this hexagram known as correctness.
So here we see thunder below heaven.
There is a rumbling of energy,
There is movement beneath the sky.
And this movement calls our attention to what is taking place between heaven and earth.
And here we see the nuclear trigrams of the mountain and wind.
So this strong presence of stillness surrounded by the moving winds,
The winds of change.
So these natural forces of the wind and the thunder,
They assist the growth of plants,
They welcome in change of seasons,
They bring in rain.
And so life is nourished.
And this is a reminder to act in harmony,
To be in sync with natural forces,
With the flow of life,
With change,
With necessary change.
Is there an area in your life where you know change is needed?
Maybe there is a lot of toxic energy.
You can also look for places of disorder,
Confusion,
Or where there feels to be an entanglement of emotions,
Circumstances,
Of relationships.
And so in these circumstances,
We can turn to these natural,
Also known as innocent,
Forces that are available to bring harmonious change.
So when we look to ourselves for that place of innocence and naturalness,
We find it in the heart.
And so we are invited in these experiences in life where change is necessary,
Where something has been going on a bit too long,
Where there is disharmony.
Instead of moving in with brute force,
To approach from the place of the heart.
And to do that,
We first need to know our own heart and trust our own heart.
And so we turn to the mountain for that.
The mountain reminds us of our stillness and of our ability to go within and know our true self.
So taking time to step back from a situation,
To connect with one's essence.
And then to look at the lay of the land from an open heart.
And looking at transformation for the greater good of all.
For when we are wanting or craving change for the wrong reasons or only for self gain,
That can set the entire situation,
Not only others,
But the self as well,
Up for disaster.
And so we are reminded through this message to be like the elements,
To be innocent and just moving in flow with our own essence,
With the flow of life,
With wu-wei,
The effortless action.
And so when we are in sync,
We open up the opportunities for great progress,
For success.
This hexagram can often show up when it is the right time to transform an old belief system,
An old way of thinking,
An old pattern of behavior.
Honesty and sincerity are needed at times when we are called to look at oneself openly and without any shame or blame to the self or to others.
So working in harmony with these guidelines of correctness,
We then open the pathway for transformation of really old patterns,
Ancestral patterns,
Cultural patterns,
Which of course is nourishing and beneficial for many.
A supportive experience for this could be reimagining the situation,
An old pattern,
A particular dynamic in a relationship.
And for this we need persistence and with persistence comes patience.
Connect to the frequency of that strong present mountain.
And trust your innate wisdom,
Trust your guidance and then act upon it.
Even if the guidance is no action.
Please pause here with a breath in and a breath out,
Grounding yourself in your physical body,
Connecting to the earth.
You might like to even move your body a little bit,
Give it a little shake.
And then settle yourself once more for a minute of quiet observing,
Observing from a distance this information in relation to your situation.
And just sense into that which feels in alignment.
You don't need to know how it is going to unfold.
You're just connecting with the awareness now.
Once you have that connection,
It will unfold.
So trust the process,
Trust your wisdom and move forward with correctness.
