Do you want to:
- gain a new perspective on an old problem?
- find a new approach in a difficult situation?
- learn about the essence of your life path?
- respond wisely to situations beyond your control?
- live in harmony with others and nature?
Consulting The Toltec I Ching Oracle enables us to recognize the factors driving events and to fashion responses that make the most of present opportunities. Avoiding difficulties that can be avoided, passing up opportunities that lead in the wrong direction, creating future successes by adapting well to present circumstances and becoming aware of our true intentions that influence everything we persue. The Toltec I Ching is a system of symbols that allows the One Spirit to communicate with human beings who seek an ennobling of their spirit, inner peace and prosperity for all, transcending the animal instinct and creating a just and humane world for all.
Hexagram 39 - Reviving Tradition:
"Even though you feel out of step with the wounded spirit of our time, you are actively involved in healing it. Recognizing that its illness is meaninglessness, you feed it the medicine of meaningfulness day and night throughout your life. Just as a the fire of light and warmth must be fed wood and air to continue burning, the spirit of our time must be fed the joy and insights born of meaningfulness if it is to continue living.”
I am inviting you to book a session if this strikes a chord within you. Together we will be asking the One Spirit for guidance with the help of the I Ching Oracle. A session lasts about one hour. Cost: 70 USD/1,300 Pesos.
Hexagram 39 - Reviving Tradition:
"Even though you feel out of step with the wounded spirit of our time, you are actively involved in healing it. Recognizing that its illness is meaninglessness, you feed it the medicine of meaningfulness day and night throughout your life. Just as a the fire of light and warmth must be fed wood and air to continue burning, the spirit of our time must be fed the joy and insights born of meaningfulness if it is to continue living.”
I am inviting you to book a session if this strikes a chord within you. Together we will be asking the One Spirit for guidance with the help of the I Ching Oracle. A session lasts about one hour. Cost: 70 USD/1,300 Pesos.
How to consult the I Ching successfully?
Engage the Oracle with sincerity and an openness to learn -not just to learn how to survive change, but with a willingness to change along with change. Keep in mind that it is describing the essence of situations, its inner state, and the most appropriate way the respond. Set aside any convictions about cause and effect for the time being and try to sense the inter-connectetness of all things. Focus on the subject of your inquiry. What are you trying to really understand? What is your true motivation for asking?
Write down a few questions, all circling around your chosen theme. Consider the Oracle’s answer in light of your questions. Begin by reflecting on the image, using it as a mirror of your inner process. It speaks most directly to your unconscious, symbol-making self. Then move on to the texts and let specific parts of it call your attention. The Oracle’s answer is generally clear, but if it is not immediately so, give yourself a few days to reflect on it. Sometimes it gives us an answer to a question that we did not ask, or it answers from a larger context that we are not quite aware of at the moment.
"The world is not a casual body of accidents, but a web of interconnected events which weave a body of being. Indeed, one of the early translations of the word Ching means the warp upon which a weaving is formed. The I Ching then is laying down the underlying pattern of universal principles upon which the individual is asked to weave the tapestry of their own experience."
The I Ching Oracle is an ancient Chinese divination text and perhaps the oldest of the Chinese classics, going back to almost 2,000 BC. The book contains 64 hexagrams and is used for guidance and decision making. The most commonly used text, even today, is the King Wen sequence of hexagrams. It was written to educate rulers in the hope of providing leadership capable of bringing benefit to its people. After 3,000 years it can safely be said that noble effort has failed and that we have entered a time in history where the goals of power turned to controlling society rather than benefiting it.
The Toltec I Ching marks a radical departure from the traditional arrangement of the 64 situations, or hexagrams, as they are called. It helps us to thrive in the midst of our modern upside-down world of injustice without becoming unjust ourselves and guides us to find our way as humanity toward living in harmony with nature and spirit.
Engage the Oracle with sincerity and an openness to learn -not just to learn how to survive change, but with a willingness to change along with change. Keep in mind that it is describing the essence of situations, its inner state, and the most appropriate way the respond. Set aside any convictions about cause and effect for the time being and try to sense the inter-connectetness of all things. Focus on the subject of your inquiry. What are you trying to really understand? What is your true motivation for asking?
Write down a few questions, all circling around your chosen theme. Consider the Oracle’s answer in light of your questions. Begin by reflecting on the image, using it as a mirror of your inner process. It speaks most directly to your unconscious, symbol-making self. Then move on to the texts and let specific parts of it call your attention. The Oracle’s answer is generally clear, but if it is not immediately so, give yourself a few days to reflect on it. Sometimes it gives us an answer to a question that we did not ask, or it answers from a larger context that we are not quite aware of at the moment.
"The world is not a casual body of accidents, but a web of interconnected events which weave a body of being. Indeed, one of the early translations of the word Ching means the warp upon which a weaving is formed. The I Ching then is laying down the underlying pattern of universal principles upon which the individual is asked to weave the tapestry of their own experience."
The I Ching Oracle is an ancient Chinese divination text and perhaps the oldest of the Chinese classics, going back to almost 2,000 BC. The book contains 64 hexagrams and is used for guidance and decision making. The most commonly used text, even today, is the King Wen sequence of hexagrams. It was written to educate rulers in the hope of providing leadership capable of bringing benefit to its people. After 3,000 years it can safely be said that noble effort has failed and that we have entered a time in history where the goals of power turned to controlling society rather than benefiting it.
The Toltec I Ching marks a radical departure from the traditional arrangement of the 64 situations, or hexagrams, as they are called. It helps us to thrive in the midst of our modern upside-down world of injustice without becoming unjust ourselves and guides us to find our way as humanity toward living in harmony with nature and spirit.
The book "The Toltec I Cing, 64 Keys to Inspired Action in the New World" is a wedding of two ancient traditions that speaks to the new world view of balance and harmony that all of us are called to embrace. Through its stunning artwork and lucid text, the book inspires us to see more clearly, live more creatively, and love more fully.
It is for all those seeking to understand the wisdom of the ancients and put it into daily practice.
Authors: Martha Ramirez-Oropeza and William Douglas Horden.
It is for all those seeking to understand the wisdom of the ancients and put it into daily practice.
Authors: Martha Ramirez-Oropeza and William Douglas Horden.
Martha Ramirez-Oropeza is a mural painter, a performer in popular theater and a researcher/lecturer of the Nahuatl pre-Hispanic codices of Mexico. She was vice director of the Mascarones Theatre Group for 32 years and designed and co-founded the Nahuatl University pyramid campus in Ocotepec, Morelos, Mexico. She conducts international Nahuatl Culture seminars in Mexico and lectures at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is also an artist in residence at the Social and Public Art Resource Center in Venice, California.
William Douglas Horden has researched indigenous divinatory systems of ancient China and Mexico with passion and independence since 1969. He is steeped in the shamanic world view from living in the Copper Canyon of Mexico with the Tarahumara Indians and in numerous other indigenous communities over the past few decades. Horden was initially trained in the I Ching by Master Khigh Aix Dhiegh and has since developed a fresh new approach to the ancient art.