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Divination tips

‘DIY’ tips for I Ching divination

concrete foundations

What are the foundations?

I’m about to run a Yijing Foundations Class – we’re starting on September 21st. You can’t enrol for the class yet, but if you add your name to the notifications list… …then you’ll be one of the first to know as soon as the ‘doors’ are open. (Since this is… Read more »What are the foundations?

construction toys on soft carpet

Playing with trigrams

I almost titled this post ‘working with trigrams’ – but the most useful, productive ways I know of to engage with trigrams in readings actually feel a lot more like play. And besides, who needs more work? So here’s how I suggest you start playing. (This is really not a… Read more »Playing with trigrams

Fuxi writing a trigram. By Guo Xu (1456–c.1529) - ‘Fuxi, the maker of men’.

Some Yijing origins

There’s more than one story of the Yi’s origins… Mythical origins The story begins in the 29th century BCE with Fuxi, China’s first emperor, who may have had the body of a serpent. It was through his insight that the trigrams were discovered, and people could begin to understand their… Read more »Some Yijing origins

spade in earth

Astonishingly literal

We love the layered profundity of the Yijing’s imagery – the way it can speak direct to the soul, giving us entirely new ways of seeing our situation. We know that the Vessel of Hexagram 50 might be a university, or a mindset, or a state of health, or any… Read more »Astonishingly literal