Spirituality

Oracle of Love Hexagram 8

The hexagram describes a connection between opposites, joining things that are separate or different into a coherent whole without obscuring or restricting their diversity. That everything in the universe holds together in such a diverse and unobtrusive whole is the Oracle's paradigm for spirituality. The universal spirit is sentient: It feels its connections and influences them, but does not control or restrict them. The spiritual presence in the world is a mindful but background connection of everything.

We are rarely aware of such unobtrusive connections, yet they are sensed and responded to by our feelings of Love. In this way we connect with the world by what we feel as well as by what we do and say. At their deepest and most sincere our feelings of Love coincide with the spiritual feeling, and by turning our attention to these deep feelings we can find our spiritual connection. Spiritual awareness is a palpable feeling of universal connectedness.

Some situations in one's life are more significant for the universal spirit than others. In these situations the spiritual presence is enhanced and there are opportunities to supplement the spiritual feeling, while one's own feelings of Love near the surface of one's consciousness and one can find one's spiritual connection more easily.

Ceremony and ritual may guide one's attention to spirituality but cannot compel one's situation to be spiritually significant.

Your situation may be spiritually significant. If appropriate, honour the significance with Love.

Be mindful of spirituality at this time. Be considerate of spiritual sensibilities. Get in touch with your deeper feelings.

Casting this hexagram may alternatively indicate that a matter you are concerned with is of spiritual concern, or that the source of the concern is spiritual.

This interpretation of the hexagram is substantially different to a classical I Ching understanding.