Welcome soul family to Cosmic Consciousness: Coding the New Human for the New Earth, on the SuperPower Up! Network. I am your host, Jewels Arnes, and I’m so excited to introduce our guest today, Rosemary Burr. Rosemary is the author of The I Ching For Romance and Friendship. It is about giving guidance, insights, and advice for all your personal relationships. Rosemary is an artist, a therapist, and a healer. She has been working with I Ching for over 40 years, and consults the oracle on a regular basis. Welcome to the show, Rosemary.
Hello. Nice to be here.
So, I am so excited to dive in and talk about I Ching For Love, because this is really what I’m getting, I get from this book, and just the energy that you radiate yourself, is just this huge amount of love. And I’d like to just ask you first of all, how you got into I Ching?
I actually discovered it through a boyfriend, when I was at university, and he used it regularly and he introduced it to me, and taught me a little bit about it. And then I discovered more the more I used it, and in a way, you end up having a personal relationship with the I Ching. I think each person will have their own journey with it.
That’s beautiful. And what’s so funny, is that I was actually first introduced to I Ching I from a boyfriend as well, and I never followed it as much as you have, but I can remember when you sent me this book, I knew instantly that this is something that I want to share, because I forgot how much of a relationship it really does bring the beauty of the energy exchange between the coins and the universe, and it is a really spectacular, oracle, is what you call it. So let’s go in a little bit deeper with that. So you decided to write this book. So what was the inspiration behind the book I Ching For Romance and Friendship?
So the inspiration was that I was working as a therapist for about 10 years, and most of the issues that people were concerned with were relationships, whether it was a personal, a romantic relationship, or someone at work, or a friendship. And people seem to be very clouded and confused in that area, and because each of us has our own view of the world, our beliefs and culture, so we all, if you like, have different colored glasses, I like to say. So no one is seeing the reality in the same color and hue. Everyone is seeing everything differently. So it’s really hard when you’re in a relationship to establish a mutual understanding.
So that’s really where my interest came. The original I Ching is very masculine, and was aimed at emperors, and the high society, and people who were taking decisions about power and nation states, and I felt that the energy of the oracle was just so amazing, that I wanted to produce a book where it could be accessible to all of us, and that it would be in a format where we could immediately get answers for what was most important, which for many people, is relationships.
Absolutely. And gosh, when I was playing with the book, I’m not in a relationship right now, and of course I have a lot of relationships I could have pertained to. But I wanted to see what it was like to do a reading on the relationship with my high self, and I’m getting chills as I say this, because it really brought a lot of insight to just a new level of consciousness to me, or a new level of communication with my high self. And I just wanted to share that, because it was such a beautiful thing, and we’re always talking about relationships, but even in that relationship, sometimes my reality is not the reality of my high self, and so being able to connect those two was such a powerful experience for me.
Yes, I think that’s a wonderful idea, and it will give you the… Really, one of the main advantages of the I Ching as an oracle, is that for me, it’s very action-orientated. I think a lot of people in the healing and spiritual community, we sometimes get stuck in the world of ideas, and we find it may be difficult to take action, and the I Ching, it gives you a pathway. It’s very much about understanding the now. Sometimes people say, “Oh, we want to know what’s happening in the future.” I Ching is not about that. The I Ching says, you need to understand the current situation, and therefore, the possibilities that you have within that situation, and whether ultimately, you choose to stay in that situation or move, that’s your choice, but it gives you that clarity and perspective, which I think is incredibly valuable.
It’s so valuable and thank you for sharing that wisdom about that this is about living in the now, because I think you’re right, so many people when they go to do different kinds of readings or whatever you want to call it, is about, “Oh, what’s going to happen to me in the future?” And so much about living in unity and living in the now, and really expanding our consciousness to what I call the new human, is that living, connecting to the energy of the now and understanding that energy of the now, of whether or not we move or we stay still, and really staying in flow with the universe. That was just so beautiful. Thank you for sharing that, Rosemary. If somebody wanted to find your book, Rosemary, where would they go to find it?
So the best way to go is Amazon. It’s available right now from Amazon. I ching for love
Oh, that’s so wonderful. So it’s on Amazon, and the name of the book again, is The I Ching For Romance and Friendship. And so, Rosemary and I are talking about I Ching For Love, and we’re going to take just a really quick break, and we’ll be right back.
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