Uncanny Evidence...

(a testament to the uncanny nature of the I Ching)

So out of the blue last night I was called to do an I Ching reading. I've been using the I Ching for a long time now, with always surprisingly accurate results. I can't honestly say I understand why it is so astoundingly accurate, for just an oracular "game" of coin toss. Of course, I can't say why the universe in general makes so much sense in its seemingly innate and intuitive intelligence... (I didn't say "intelligent design" - I mean really, can I know if there's a designer - no way! - but I can see there is an innate intelligence, or sensibility - so to speak - that keeps everything from falling to pieces...)

Anyways, maybe it's that same "intelligence" that underlies why the heck this silly coin-toss called the I Ching (Chinese "Book of Changes") actually works. Anyway, this wasn't a particularly deep reading, but I found it uncanny anyway...

Just asking for a general reading, I tossed the coins (6 times) and received hexagram 36, "Darkening of the Light." Hmm, I wonder what that could be referring to, I mused. I tossed one more round, inquiring for elaboration. I receive the 1st line of hexagram 63, "After Completion." The line specifically advises to stop pressing forward, and that in this stopping/drawing-back, one "may ... not remain altogether untouched by the disastrous consequences..., but is hit only from behind like a fox that, having crossed the water, at the last minute gets its tail wet."

I had been in the middle of rehearsing/practicing music, when I received this reading. It was Friday night, 11pm, and I could easily have stayed up for an hour or 2 longer, singing, drumming... But instead I stopped, at the suggestion of the I Ching, and asked my body what it felt. Indeed, I was tired! Ready for bed...

At 4 in the morning, I awoke with a distinct flushing going thru my system - a little achey, almost feverish. Wow, the tail of my fox is indeed a touch wet!, I thought. But I was able to sleep it off, whatever was passing thru, and felt mostly better by morning. Had I stayed up late, however, my immune system would have been more compromised, and I might have woke up totally sick today.

Uncanny advice from a strange, ancient and exotic oracle... A fluke? After almost 17 years of working with the I Ching I would have to say this has happened far too often to be considered a "fluke." Indeed, this simple game of tossing coins appears to be tapping into the same innate intelligence that connects the whole universe in this web woven by no hands... ...making all the sense in the world, yet delightfully beyond the reach of my mental explanations...