Contemplating Biting Through: Tao Wisdom - I-Ching 21
by Helen Hansen
A certain type of grit is needed to bite through a stuck situation. This hexagram guides with earthly and spiritual wisdom from the Tao. The primary yin-yang archetypal elements present in such an experience are fire and thunder. Thank you to DF Music for the soundscape.
Transcript
Thank you for joining me.
We are doing a reading now of a hexagram 21 of the I Ching entitled Biting Through.
As you prepare to receive this transmission,
Ensure that you have the space to do so.
Clear out distractions and bring yourself into presence.
Perhaps that means pausing.
Perhaps that means slowing down or maybe even focusing on your breath.
Give yourself this time to quieten,
To sigh out and to invite in all of you.
Intentionally connecting with the wisdom that you've been born with.
Trust that this innate intelligence is with you right now just as it is always with you.
And trust that you will receive the messages from this transmission in the way that you need to.
The I Ching is a participatory experience which is why it is so important to prepare by bringing ourselves into presence so that we not only hear the external guiding but we are also able to hear and feel into our own internal guidance.
And both are necessary.
Not all of the information shared might resonate with you.
So simply notice what you notice and know that that is what you need to take heed of,
Work with,
Perhaps hold in your heart or continue to unfold over some time.
And now let's take a slow breath in together.
As we exhale,
Soften the heart,
Open the mind and relax the body.
We hear that the I Ching in the hexagram 21 is talking about fire and thunder.
Fire above thunder,
Thunder below fire.
So imagine this huge fire and underneath it is this rumbling thunder.
This will cause the fire to be amplified and its qualities to be accentuated.
It will be brighter.
It will be stronger.
Fire reminds us of our connection with others.
But with this thunder rumbling underneath,
This alarming quality is turning our attention to where there has been an entanglement with another,
Which could be an individual or a group.
And such an entanglement is problematic.
So now is the time to shine the light on problems,
Problems that have been there for a while and that need attention.
The title of this hexagram biting through refers to the physical,
Mental,
Emotional and spiritual grit one may need to see through an issue.
With the two nuclear trigrams being the mountain and water and these carry very deep and strong yin quality,
Whereas the primary trigrams are powerfully yang.
So this internal yin is calling for the strength,
This persistence,
Even a tenacity to see through what needs to be seen through.
Now is the time.
Your consistency can finally bite through what has been hanging for a long,
Long time.
And while there is a very earthly component to this whole experience,
Because it involves speaking out,
It involves shining the light on perhaps what has been in the dark,
Bringing to the surface what has been unclear,
Voicing what needs to be heard,
Along with all this yang expressiveness.
The deeper wisdom here is of a spiritual nature.
And fire,
Of course,
Is spiritually transformative.
And because fire is in the upper trigram,
Which means it is the fire that will transform into the future,
Into the next hexagram,
Number 22,
Which is entitled Adornment,
And this talks to the blessings.
Following an intense period of working something through and working it out completely.
And when one does that on a very earthly level,
With spiritual awareness,
Then the gifts will be spiritual and that will unfold into earthly gifts over time as well.
Returning to the lower trigram now of thunder,
Which can create a shocking experience,
It can sometimes appear to come out of nowhere unexpectedly.
And so the message of truth can sometimes be unexpected,
Especially by those who have veered from the truth.
So voicing the truth may feel uncomfortable.
But when it is done from a place of sincerity,
With no malicious intent,
The shock of the thunder of the message of the awareness will actually help to open the eyes and even the hearts of those who are receiving.
In these moments,
We are called to be like the water in the mountain,
Not afraid of the depth,
Able to be strong and resilient and poised.
And when we are called to stand our ground and speak up,
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