Preeti Barshilia

Preeti Barshilia
Literatarot India
XI - Giustizia/Justice:
I Ching - The Book Of Changes
Preeti was introduced to divination when she started making predictions with playing cards and found it fascinating. She has been following her intuition for years now while learning more and more about the subject. She has a career in Human Resources in which she finds intuition to be an invaluable tool to be used whenever the need be. She loves nature and the outdoors and loves spending her free time doing constructive and creative work.

Swati is an entrepreneur and Tarot reader who works with Tarot as a transformational and healing tool. She has conducted numerous workshops and seminars on Tarot and its applications. She has been into the mystical and magickal arts since childhood and has in the last seven years attempted to create more awareness about Tarot as a spiritual tool. She lives and practices in Mumbai and is the founder of Tarot India Network. She hopes to bring out more and more transformation with the use of Tarot as a helping art.

Description:
The I Ching can correctly be described as an explanation of the laws of change in the universe and of how human beings can learn to live in harmony with these laws. I Ching is one of the most ancient texts in the world and is called The Book of Changes.
The card drawn here is inspired by this ancient Chinese oracle and spiritual literature. Medium used is a mixture of charcoal and digital.
The I Ching, or Book of Changes, is the most widely read of the five Chinese Classics. The book was traditionally written by the legendary Chinese Emperor Fu Hsi (2953-2838 B.C.). Futher commentaries were added by King Wen and the Duke of Chou in the eleventh century B.C.
An I Ching interpretation is performed by making six binary decisions (a hexagram). This is called 'casting the I Ching'. These are written down as a stack of six solid (Yang) or broken (Yin) lines. The basis of the hexagrams is that combinations of Yang and Yin lines form eight trigrams, and permutations and combinations of eight trigrams in pairs, with one below and one above create
sixty-four hexagrams, each with their own meanings. The I Ching decisions were traditionally made either by tossing yarrow stalks or coins. There are actually four possible values for each of the lines; the two Yin/ Yang values, and a line which changes from Yin to Yang or vice versa. Thus one cast of the I Ching can generate two different hexagrams, which adds depth to the interpretation.

It is said in the I Ching that, "The great attribute of heaven and earth is the giving and maintaining life. The right administration of wealth, correct instructions to the people, and prohibitions against wrong-doing;--these constitute his righteousness."

In the present card, the symbol of Hexagram number eleven called T'ai - conveying the idea of Perfection and Peace is drawn. The lower trigram Khien, composed of three undivided lines, is the symbol of heaven (strength and action) and the upper trigram composed of three divided lines is the symbol of earth, (receptivity). Earth being supported by Heaven in hexagram eleven is the symbol of perfect balance and rising above of problems by never leaving the path of righteousness and truth.