Comments on: I Ching on Obama

By: badger

badger — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 10:42:20 +0000

It was one heck of a race, one of the most enthralling and exciting US elections in my lifetime. Mc Vain threw it all away really, he tried to motivate his base, but that just ensured that he would alienate all the moderates and independents.
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By: Hilary

Hilary — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 10:30:40 +0000

Well, there are no stone tablets anywhere to tell us what the I Ching is “supposed to be used for” – though the personal readings seem to be the core of the thing, to me. I wouldn’t be remotely interested in it if all it could do was predict elections.

By: Graham G

Graham G — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 10:22:03 +0000

Fasinating website to read but i thought i ching was supposed to be used for personal reading not for predicting elections.. but it very interesting how the result have come out as a radical change which i guess obama is.

By: Hilary

Hilary — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:32:10 +0000

Quite – readings like this aren’t really of practical use, they’re just interesting for people who study divination anyway. But if you had a reading done in response to a question of yours and it didn’t seem to apply, then the odds are you had a badly-interpreted reading.

By: Gina

Gina — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 04:53:04 +0000

Some interesting stuff, but as for me, I just want to see what the next four years have in store, and I’ll use that as my guide. I had an I ching reading once, and none of it seemed to apply to my life whatsoever.

By: Hilary

Hilary — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 19:52:31 +0000

54 as the dao of the presidency? That’s really interesting. It certainly makes sense that anyone entering that office does so as the Marrying Maiden, though I’d never exactly thought of it that way before.

By: Soshin

Soshin — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 01:37:04 +0000

53, 3 There must be a permanent thread in your emotions, reactions and deeds, so others can expect what you will do next. If there is not, cooperation or building up a life together is not possible. This solid structure together is made by everyday small events.

53, 5 What is part of your being or your aims will always reveal itself, and it will have more effect if it realizes itself day by day than by pouring out everything at one go.

53,6 The spirit becomes rich by never letting the waterwheel stop, supplying the soul with slaking waters every living day. Only day by day one develops pureness, innocence, modesty. The moment the waterwheel stops, they are gone.

2,0 The earth lies motionless, time after time. Nothing moves, nothing lives. *But deep in her darkness something is waiting.* Patient, or asleep.
Then the energy and the vibrations of thunderstorms touch her, and suddenly she is all over vibrant with life. Lightning, thunder, rain, they come and go suddenly, * but a whole year of luxuriant growth has started*. Day after day more life, but the earth herself did not change. She is eternal dark, quiet and patient.

From LiSes interpretation

By: Soshin

Soshin — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 01:29:59 +0000

To the question:

Where would Obamas way lead if he comes up with essential points of view, with an essential way how an in which direction he would actually do “Change”.

In opposistion to the Slogan: “Change, Change, Change”

The answer was 53, 3,5,6 to 2

Very encouraging, if he would state exaxt statements of requiremts for essential change.

And that he did.

Question was asked on 4th of June.

The nex one was asked on 6th of November, two days after the election and was: What will be the Dao of Obamas presidency.

54 unchanging.

Now this will mean change, IMHO.

By: miakoda

miakoda — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 20:31:57 +0000

I discovered a post-it while cleaning yesterday, which was from an online reading on election night:

How can I expect this evening to turn out for Obama? 17.3>49. Great answer! We did follow the responsible manager and let the small son (Bush, I think) go.

And for McCain? 47.4>29. Election Night is one of the best examples I’ve ever seen of watching the slow arrival of an elaborate bronze chariot. The solution came slowly and the end probably felt pretty shameful to him.

By: knot

knot — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 19:49:14 +0000

> the Kerry-Bush reading (13.2.5 to 14)?

My first thought was 13.2 = Kerry appealed only to those inside the Democratic tent, so to speak, which was a mistake, and 13.5 (I love the image in that line so much) was Obama’s campaign. Just thought.

I asked about Obama’s chances a few too many times, and got some discouraging answers along the lines of 33, 12, and 23, usually in combination with something else. Late in the day I realized these responses were comments on my own emotional state, which was wild with anxiety. I often find that the yi will address only my emotional state, not the question, when my emotional state is too tumultuous to understand an answer.

The last response I got, just a few days before the election, was 42-23. Which could and probably does mean a lot of things, but my immediate understanding was “it is going to be fine, SETTLE DOWN,” and I did.