A reading made by Fili in Tiohtià:ke / Montreal
Year: 甲 辰 Wood Dragon Year 4722
🌑 ✨ Jumping on here with a reading for this new moon Aug 4th- Sept 2nd.
According to the 3000 yr old ancestral divination system I Ching — It’s a very good time to speak your truth and ask for what you want. A challenge as many of us as children are told to keep quiet, and not step outside of narrow and orderly modes.
This moon is here to help break all that open and laugh about it. Just see if they can stop you! The truth is in the mess.
- What space do you create for yourself when you let your jaw wide open?
- What happens when you bridge spirit and expression by feeling through your words as you speak them?
You may have spent the last little while getting acquainted with a dream that sparks you, while perhaps at the same time feeling unusually slow and stuck last month. This month is different — you are going all in for the long game. Advance consistently and ask for support when needed.
Concerns of sustenance, voice and communication challenges are likely to arise in this period, and things might get heated.
These energies will help:
- 🐂 ox energy, you who are too slow and strong to mind all the excess energy flying around
- 🐯 tiger energy, others may find your stripes eccentric, you who are a true badass following your desire
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Below is the full reading with translations and details from the Yijing text…
First Hexagram: 27. ䷚ 頤 Yí ”Jaw / Desire”
Determination
JawAugurs blessing
Observing the Jaw
One is beseeched to be honest (one requests their mouth to be full)
Image
Below the mountain there is thunder Jaw Sovereign child thus Careful in words spoken Reserved in wine and dining
Fili’s Notes
- Speak honestly
- Mind what you speak, on the inside or outside, it is a suitable time to calmly ask for what you want.
- One asks for their mouth to be full, a good time for nourishment.
- The image of thunder is that of sound echoing in the valley below the still mountain. Words have the power to amplify and multiply.
- Spoken from inner clarity and truth, a sound echoes for a thousand mountains.
- Your freedom is to choose the words carefully and freely. You don’t have to take on the thoughts and attitudes of those around you.
Second Hexagram 30. ䷝ 離 Lí ”Clarity / Emitting”
Determination
Emission Benefit is augured Sustenance ease Harness the cow and bull Blessing.
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Bright twice acts in emission Great people thus Maintain brightness shine to the four corners/regions
Fili’s Notes
- Cow and bull are slow animals that plod resolutely where they need to go, they are not rushed and so are clear. They don’t waver left and right from the wind of the day.
- It’s about stubborn courage, clarity, optimism and carrying out a mission. Even if other people seem not to believe in you, this hexagram refers to a situation in which by believing in what you do without letting go, you will make it happen.
- You harness forces that are bigger than you, powerful forces move slow but have the greatest strength.
- It augurs a period of slow and persevering work of going forward and treading one’s desire with unrelenting clarity and vision.
Line readings
The changing lines in this hexagram show a transformation from two yin lines in the middle of the mouth, from yin to yang. It shows a receptive mouth getting filled with tangible nourishment. Because this occurs in the middle lines 3 and 4 — it relates to the human realm, as well as dynamic actions we ourselves can take. Through nourishing, we are able to emit forward and manifest. By taking agency and giving our own structure to our words, we can choose our reality.
Line 3
Fili’s Notes
- A suggestion to slow down and turn inwards to attend to desires
- Brushing away feels like like we are belittling our own senses, or pretending we don’t want something
- You don’t have a decade to wait, you need to be honest now
Line 4
Fili’s Notes
- Set your sights on the most inspired desire you can find, don’t settle for less.
- the word 顛 diān which we translate as ‘high’ more literally means top of head, summit, apex. It also carries the meaning of falling, toppling over — which almost gives a feeling of vertigo.
- It’s not an easy thing that you are desiring, and yet, because you can see it, you can do it.
- It’s time to tune out all distractions and move forward in full focus and immersion.
Conclusion
It’s an important time not to ignore your desires. Though sometimes it might seem impossible, the lines suggest you are able to achieve them. Take some time choose your desires wisely — take the most elevated thing you can think of and devote fully to it in every waking minute.
The key to this is slow patient and dedicated work ethic. In this period don’t be afraid to almost fixate on the thing that you desire, tuning out all distractions. You don’t even have to make space to worry about the reactions of others because you are so immersed in what you love doing.
This is a period where despite the turbulence, you can accomplish much without it feeling stressful.
If it’s useful to you, we/Fili are offering personal divination readings this month on a sliding scale. We’d be honoured to support you as you connect with the energy and expression of your heart’s desire.
Personal readings available on request (online / in person. Sliding scale, pay what you feel):
Wishing you a peaceful, nourishing, and abounding lunar cycle 🙏🌑✨