Hexagram 51

For anyone familiar with the I Ching, the hexagrams you throw are sometimes eerily literal. Such was the case for Kysha Jackson, a sales rep who lives in West LA. On May 15,Kysha was using an online site for the I Ching and got Hexagram 51:

Shock.
Progressing.
A shock comes, fright, fright!
Laughing and talking, ha, ha!
The shock startled in a hundred li,
but one did not lose the ladle of sacrificial wine.
There is a shock that has a lot of impact. Although one is alarmed by the shock, there is no real harm done. When it’s over one might even look back and make fun of it. Notwithstanding it’s force one does not allow it to break one’s concentration.

She writes: “On May 18th at 9:45pm PDT there were two small earthquakes, 5.0 and 3.4 near south LA. We were watching a movie, laughing, eating and drinking wine at the time! According to this site a hundred li equals about 25 miles – that’s about how far from the epicenter the earthquake was felt.”