Reading 1: The Vessel’s Jade Rings
Question: Where are we now and how shall we proceed?
Inquirer: Stephen Karcher, personally and on behalf of Great Vessel
Response: 50 Vessel, 9/6 ≈ 32 Persevering

Reading 2: A Valentine Meditation
Question: In the spirit of St. Valentine’s Day, what advice do you (Change) have for our visitors to help them re-invigorate their feeling connection with others in this troubled and divided world? 
Response: 32 Persevering, 9/2, 9/3, 6/6 ≈ 35 Flourishing

Reading 3: The Inner Voice
Question: Please give me an image of my inner guide and healing voice.
Inquirer: Stephen Karcher, at a critical point in the Water Initiation in which one meets the ghosts of the past and seeks their blessings.
Response: 15 Humbling/Grey Rat, 9/3 ≈ 2 Field/Earth/Dark Animal Goddess

Reading 4: A Voice from the Still Center
Question: What about President Bush and his plans for a war on Iraq? What attitude or stance can we take? 
Inquirer: Stephen Karcher, with a group of therapists and activists during a workshop at the Los Angeles Jung Center, June 2002.
Response:  52 Bound/Stilling

Reading 5: Placing the Voice of Feeling
Question: How is it that the feelings I experience are so intense?
Inquirer: A dedicated and feeling man in his middle 30’s engaged in teaching in business and public service organizations who is at a hiatus in his personal and professional life, with an increasing sense of isolation and a pervading fear.
Response:   21 Biting Through, 6/2 ≈ 38 Diverging/Shaman of the Shadow

Reading 6: A Voice from the Abyss
Question: Who or what is Osama bin Laden?
Inquirer: Stephen Karcher for the Reading Panel and those who need to understand this mystery, not long after the London bombings.
Response:  1 Inspiring Force, 9/3 ≈ 10 Treading/Meeting the Tiger

Reading 7: Voices of Change
Question: What would you (Change) like to say to the readers of Odyssey about the future of South Africa?
Inquirer: Stephen Karcher.
 Response: 56.4 > 52

Reading 8: The Marrying Maidens
Question: What would you (Change) like to say to the readers of Resurgence?
 Inquirer: Stephen Karcher.
 Response: 54

Reading 9: The Soul of Change and the Imaginal Menagerie
Question: What is Soul or Imagination?  
The Inquirer: Stephen Karcher, for Great Vessel and the College of Diviners.
Response:  2 Field/The Dark Animal Goddess

Reading 10 Imaginal Fertility and the Birth into the Symbolic World
Question: What is Imaginal Fertility? How can we heal the Outcast Woman who images the soul’s place in our thought and our culture?
Inquirer: Stephen Karcher with the College of Diviners.
Response: 51 Rousing Thunder, 9/1, 9/4 ≈ 2 Field/Earth/Dark Animal Goddess

Reading 11: “History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake …”
Question: Where do you (Change) come from?
Inquirer: Soshin Drechsler, a deep and long-term student of Change involved in the healing professions.
Response: 1 Inspiring Force, 9/1, 9/2, 9/3 ≈ 12 Obstruction

Reading 12: Doomsday – Again!
Question: Please give me an image of the War in Iraq, the roots and the present situation.
Inquirer: Stephen Karcher, for those who need to know what attitude to take towards this deeply threatening sequence of events. 
Response: 18 Corruption, 6/1, 6/4, ≈ 14 Great Being

Reading 13 Omens of Meeting
Inquirers: Two ex-partners who have been separated for over 10 years.
Questions:
1) What does she bring to the meeting? 
2) What do I bring to the meeting?
3) What does the relationship have to say to us both?
Responses: 
1) 7 Legions, 6/5 ≈ 29 Ghost River
2) 64 Not-yet Crossing, 9/4 ≈ 4 Enveloping
3) 57 Subtle Penetration, 9/6 ≈ 48 Well
This is a Relationship Reading in which each partner produces a Figure expressing their position then together form a third figure that allows the relationship itself to speak.

Reading 14: The Heart of Change
Question: What does the Yi say about continuing to see this counselor? 
Inquirer: “Someone who is trying to make far reaching changes in their life.”
Response: 42 Augmenting, 9/1, 9/5, 9/6 ≈ 2 Field/Earth/Dark Animal Goddess

Reading 15: Meeting the Tiger
Question: How to deal with my manager?
Inquirer: A social worker whose main task is to support and advise the parents of disabled children.
Response: 10 Treading, 9/4 ≈ 59 Dispersing

Reading 16: Marrying the Maidens
Question: What is the meaning of the Vallecitos Retreat Mirror of the Heart?
Inquirer: Stephen Karcher as Leader of the Yijing Retreat Mirror of the Heart.
Response: 54 Marrying the Maidens

Reading 18: The Opened Heart
Question: What time is it for us?
Inquirer: the Group participating in the 2007 Vallecitos Yijing Retreat Mirror of the Heart.
Response: 61 The Opened Heart, 9/1, 6/3, 9/5 ≈ 18 Corruption/Renovating

Reading 19: Bright Omens 
Question: How do we best manage our Gu (inner corruption)? 
Inquirers: Group participating in the Yijing Retreat Mirror of the Heart.
Response: 30 Bright Omens, 9/6 ≈ 55 Abounding 

Reading 22: Creating Ancestors 
Question: What do the Ancestors want us to understand?
Inquirers: Group participating in the Yijing Retreat Mirror of the Heart.
Response: 19 Nearing, 9/2 ≈ 24 Return