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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?

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Where next?

In this episode, Natalia is asking a wide-open question: where is she to go next? And Yi’s answer combines focus with openness: Hexagram 7, the Army, changing at line 2 to Hexagram 2, Earth: changing to (You may notice something different at the beginning and end of this episode. The… Read more »Where next?

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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

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Panic-free finances

(Just one reading, sorry, not a universal formula.) Paloma asked what to do about her worrying pension-less state, and cast Hexagram 5, Waiting, changing at lines 4 and 5 to 34, Great Vigour – changing to So we talked about patience, and self-care, and standing firm, and also not standing… Read more »Panic-free finances

Benebell Wen I Ching the Oracle

Benebell Wen’s I Ching

Outside the boxes When I first heard about Benebell Wen’s I Ching, I thought it sounded unpromising. An I Ching book by someone who had already published on tarot, who maintains a website with sections on feng shui, numerology, Western astrology and esoteric Taoism as well as tarot and the… Read more »Benebell Wen’s I Ching

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Earth inside (part 2)

Following on from a previous post… Hexagram 20, Seeing Hexagram 20 has xun, wind and wood, over earth; its Oracle text suggests earth’s open, available quality: ‘Seeing. Washing hands, and not making the offering.There is truth and confidence like a presence.’ Earth will not act, but allows: the ritual provides… Read more »Earth inside (part 2)