The I Ching teaches us what is important in life. It gives us insights into the fundamental issues of our lives and instructs us on how we can nourish the virtues necessary to connect with the spirit and to manifest its ways within our lives and in the world. People who consult the I Ching have a complex relationship with it. Many approach the I Ching as a spiritual teacher. However, the I Ching shares more than wisdom; through its readings, it offers a conversation.
Louise for the past several years has worked on her own I Ching commentaries, a collection of hexagram essays, which she calls The I Ching of Interbeing, a project, she says, remains very much a work in progress. You can access her I Ching commentary at wayofhumanity.net
We asked the I Ching what it wanted to share in its third Meat, Complicity and Thou reading. We received from the I Ching Hexagram 1 with a moving line in the 3rd place. This appears below, using Louise’s I Ching hexagram essay.
Hexagram 1 – Creative
Unceasing power.
Boundless.
Entire.
The hexagram represents the Creative and its powers. No fixed condition within the universe bounds the Creative. As the all-encompassing Creative power, we call it sacred. As the sacred within life, we call it spirit.
The Creative has no form. It makes itself known through its all-powerful creativity. Its great laws subject the sacred Earth Interbeing to its sacred ways
We experience the Creative as the mystery, the unknowable yet known. We have no way to apprehend the Creative except through the power of its laws, its deep love and beauty, and our sacred relationship. It has no form nor measurement. We have no language to speak of the Creative, yet it speaks to us within our hearts.
The Creative extends and transforms, causing all things to flourish. We experience the never ceasing flux of the creation as change. Change does not impede but serves as the means to make the potential actual. The stages of change unfold in a clear sequence: first the manifestation of the Creative and then the conservation of Creation. The Creative powers the cyclic forces of change on which life on Earth depends.
