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The I Ching <\/em>is one of the oldest divination systems and, as one friend put it, much chattier than the tarot or astrology. The premise is simple \u2013 even if the results are not! Six coins, tossed six times. You get one or two hexagrams, depending on whether you have changing or moving lines. When Carl Jung wrote the introduction to the Richard Wilhelm translation of the I Ching in 1949, it was the first time he had publicly discussed synchronicity.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026whoever invented the I Ching <\/em>was convinced that the hexagram worked out in a certain moment coincided with the latter in quality no less than time\u2026the hexagram was the exponent of the moment in which it was cast. This assumption involves a certain curious principle that I have termed synchronicity, a concept that formulates a point of view diametrically opposed to that of causality\u2026synchronicity takes the coincidence of events in space and time as meaning something more than mere chance\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been using the I Ching for decades, but am nowhere nearly as accomplished at interpreting it as writer Nancy Pickard<\/a> and Adele Aldridge.<\/a> But even the adepts can be tripped up. Adele recently emailed me an experience she had with the Ching.<\/p>\n

From Adele:<\/p>\n

I share with you an I Ching reading I did on March 14 this year. On a scrap of paper I wrote in the middle, ELECTION.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I made 3 columns: Clinton – Sanders – Trump. <\/strong>I threw the coins under each name.<\/p>\n

For Clinton I got hexagram 46 Pushing Upward.<\/em> No moving lines.<\/p>\n

For Sanders I got hexagram 41 Decrease<\/em> changing to 18 Decay\/working on what has been spoiled <\/em><\/p>\n

For Trump I got hexagram 8 Union.<\/em><\/p>\n

At the time I thought the Clinton and Sanders reading seemed appropriate. I thought that Trump’s Union<\/em>, a joining with the masses, had to be wrong. There is many a time when I get an I Ching reading that I either don’t like or don’t understand. Just like a dream, you can’t always tell the meaning of an I Ching response right away. I stuck the paper in my journal to wait and see. I forgot about it and the fact that it was way back in March surprises me. That seems so long ago now.<\/p>\n

Well, the I Ching was right. It seems to be that it always is right even if I don’t like the response or understand it. Carl Jung said in his Forward to the I Ching, “One sleeps better at night if one does not try to understand how the I Ching works.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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