Welcome to this I Ching reading for October 2025.
Before we move into the related hexagram,
Let's just take a few moments to relax,
Settle and arrive.
Arrive here in the now.
This all supports the process of receiving this information,
So that we receive it as we need to and we respond to it in a way that is in alignment with our highest good.
Breathing in,
Breathing out,
Feeling your feet,
Feeling your hands and your crown.
Grounding down,
While connecting upwards.
Breathing into your heart space and feeling your chest opening,
Muscles relaxing and lengthening.
Feel your belly settling and let your mind become still.
Slow breathe in and slow breathe out.
As we now set the intention to trust.
Trust that what we will notice through the information shared is exactly what we need to notice.
Breathe into this intention and then exhale and let it go.
And the hexagram from the I Ching connected and most supportive for our guidance as a human population as a whole for the month of October 2025 is number 58 known as The Delighted.
And it is named this because we have two trigrams echoing each other.
Trigrams of the lake,
That serene joyous water.
Yang Yang Yin and again repeated with Yang Yang Yin.
So this beautiful balance.
Of course in between we have two nuclear trigrams of different elements and these are of the wind and fire.
Showing movement and transformation in a time of delight as the title says.
This image of the double lake shows mutual and reciprocal influence and help.
Bringing rewards and happiness.
Words from the I Ching.
The hexagram signifies a state of serene happiness that consists of a sense of personal wholeness and well-being and the best of relations with others.
The hexagram does not wholly exclude the presence or possibility of adversity but its concern is to emphasize the all-powerful and ultimately all-conquering human faculty of choosing to live joyfully no matter what the circumstances.
End quote.
Now if we move to line 5 which is a yang line in the upper trigram and known as the Emperor.
The message from line 5 indicates vulnerability and a strong likelihood that there will be troubling times.
Calling for us to be vigilant and cautious.
This is often the message when there is water involved.
As much as there is joy and flow in certain experiences with water there are other times that one needs to tread carefully and if we will refer to September's reading that was largely focused on water with three out of four trigrams because there were two hexagrams that showed up last month three of these were focused on water and there was a great call for slow still awareness and if one thinks of being in muddy water one needs to be slow and careful and tread the water with wisdom and awareness.
So be mindful of both qualities and other characteristics of this water archetype and remembering that these readings don't start and stop on the first and then the last day of the month.
They do overlap and so it is mindful to take into account the awareness that it came through for you in the previous I Ching reading.
Now that all said even though we are cautioned the overarching theme here is joyfulness is tranquility serenity and so it invites us to create inspiring and stimulating experiences not only for ourselves but very much for others.
Water is always all-inclusive and so let that be a reminder for us especially at this time to include others and to think of ways to include others more and to do so with an open heart and a joyful mind.
Another way is to put one's attention on actualizing,
Materializing spirit.
So bringing forth the spiritual qualities such as inspiration,
Unconditional love,
Joy,
Gratitude into every day,
Into as many parts of your day,
Your experiences,
Relationships that you can and let that be a guide,
A guiding light for you as you move from one day,
One moment to the next through October.
And even during times of change or moments of uncertainty or even difficult confrontations,
Drop into that lightness and expansive quality of those spiritual gifts,
The joy,
The unconditional love,
The lightness of inspiration and gratitude.
Just keep returning there again and again and again and let that be part of your practice,
Part of your mental and emotional stabilizing.
That no matter what the winds of change might bring and what the fires of transformation might process,
You persistently,
Consistently return to your center through joy,
Love,
Gratitude,
Inspiration.
Let's take a moment here to take a deep breath in.
As you exhale,
Relax the body,
The mind,
The focus now.
Just give yourself a few moments of complete quiet,
Purposefully bringing stillness to the mind and the body.
And now ask of yourself,
What is the primary message for you from this reading of hexagram number 58?
And now let's place both of our hands over our heart center and breathe in your awareness into your heart.
Feel it filling up your heart and as you exhale,
Feel it traveling throughout all of the cells and particles of your being.
Thank you dear traveler for being here and I wish for you a month of much joyfulness and lightness.
And until we meet again for November's reading,
Do take care.
