Sunday, January 07, 2007 Cariño: Letting go and letting God By Linda Grace Cariño Paradigm shift
THE I Ching is an oracle I consult with regularly. It helps me plan yearly objectives, seasonal targets, and monthly guidelines (“Godlines”, is more like it). It also serves as a reliable compass by which situations can be “read”, and thus acted upon with more enlightenment.
Since I began using this oracle in ‘85 or ‘86, it has served me well, many a time saving me from life turns I should not make and steering me onto roads I should take. In these twenty years of use, I have owned various versions of this Book of Changes, each of which I have taken much effort to secure. With each version, I have likewise noticed that each succeeding one indicates a steady progress in terms of my inner development. The latest version, by the Taoist master Alfred Huang, was perhaps the most in tune with my inner workings.
Imagine thus my utter devastation when it got: Lost. It happened in November of last year. I was on the way to lunch with someone at the McDonalds Sunshine, and had to hie off to the bathroom first, this with book and bag, and inadvertently emerged from bathroom with only bag. I noticed the loss later, on the way home, and backtracked to said bathroom. Book wasn’t there anymore. Subsequent searches by the McDonalds manager proved to be of no avail. I was crushed.
A thought has been nagging me since then. It is perhaps best voiced now as the new year comes around, new years being times of letting go of the old. Perhaps my oracle was taken from me by the universe because the time has come for me to let go of it. I struggle with the inner implications I seem to have to face with this, a would-be epiphany, still in the making.
In the meantime, I’m thinking, in this year of 2007, to let God is perhaps what I should be doing more?
