Ask about the gift

I’ve stumbled across a question to ask Yi that’s rapidly becoming one of my favourites:

‘What’s the gift?’

It can be asked about almost anything, of course. A situation, an approach, a book… I just asked about what my new way of eating gives me, and had a very clear, very interesting reply. (Part of it was 14.4, which is why I’m not going to spend the rest of this post banging on about that 😉 .)

And it can also be asked about people. I’ve received readings of startling, shining clarity when asking about people who work as healers/ intuitives/ diviners (etc…) –

‘What gift does this person bring?’

Just one example: I asked this about Pamela Moss, whose adventure in self-employment began with painting ‘possibility portraits’, like icons, to represent the highest and best of individuals and families. She calls this a ‘magic mirror‘. She also teaches people to create ‘vision boards’ and personal ‘treasure maps’ with collage. She’s been branching out lately, though, working more with small business owners and sending what felt to me like more generic, less personal messages about success, money and so on. Maybe (I thought) she’s leaving the vision thing behind. Hmmm. So what might her gift be now?

Hexagram 20, changing at line 6 to Hexagram 8.

(Isn’t that a brilliant reading?)

Seeing and Seeking Union – the clear vision of what’s there, moved by the impulse to find kindred spirits and belong. (Belonging is an eloquent translation of the name of hexagram 8, and the one Brad Hatcher uses.) Seeing how and where you belong; seeing just with an awareness that you have a place to belong, which is revealing in itself.

Actually… looking again at the Oracle for hexagram 8 –

‘Seeking union, good fortune.
At the origin of oracle consultation,
From the source, ever-flowing constancy.
No mistake.
Not at rest, coming on all sides.
For the latecomer, pitfall.’

– I wonder whether Pamela might not be in the midst of finding her own place to belong, the people she can most readily connect with, and whether those more business-y emails might not actually be her way of ‘founding countless cities for relationships’, and not ‘generic’ at all.

But it’s the primary hexagram that really leaps out at me and sings…

‘Seeing. Washing hands, and not making the offering.
There is truth and confidence like a presence.’

It’s not about doing stuff or even giving anything; it’s about the space where you’re washed clean of the everyday world and can see exactly what enters this clear space. Truth becomes apparent.

Best of all is the moving line, 20.6:

‘Seeing their lives.
The noble one is without mistake.’

Could there be a simpler way to describe the true gift of someone who makes ‘possibility portraits’?

I’ve asked this ‘gift’ question about several people I’m hoping to connect with, and the answers always have this quality of perfect, unmissable clarity. Often they give me a whole new way of seeing ideas and methods I was in danger of dismissing because they didn’t ‘fit’ my usual comfort zone.

But much as I’d love to write about them all, I think it’d be best not to share readings about people I haven’t even spoken to yet – it could be a slightly weird way to introduce myself. (Pamela, on the other hand, knows me very well, and gladly gave permission for me to share this reading; I think she likes it.)