News! 😀 Tickets are on sale now for the webinar.
When: Saturday 25th June, 6pm UK time. (That’s mid-morning to early afternoon across the US.)
Who: Dr Margaret Pearson
What: Women in the I Ching
Where: at any internet-connected computer near you: Windows or Mac
How much: £5 (about $9 US, €7.50)
And maybe I should also mention how many: 28 seats were left when I last checked. I’ve set an upper limit as I do want everyone who comes to have the opportunity to get involved and ask questions, and that wouldn’t work with a huge group. So I’ll be hiring a room for 35 people maximum. If you miss your chance to get in, there will be a recording available eventually, but of course you won’t have the same opportunity to get answers to your own questions on the day.
I asked Yi –
“What does this meeting have to offer people?”
– and it answered with – wait for this one – Hexagram 2, the Receptive, with no changing lines. Which, of course, is the hexagram we traditionally know as the ‘pure feminine’.
I can think of a couple of ideas Yi is bringing out here. First the obvious one: a woman’s view on the book. Which seems unremarkable, until you start trying to think of an original translation from the Chinese, by a woman. I can think of one (LiSe’s). As far as I know, Margaret’s will be the first in print. What kind of difference will this make?
(Of course it helps (!) that Margaret is extremely knowledgeable about ancient Chinese culture, and the ideal person to ask about the many references to women and marriage peppered through the Yi. She’s also an active diviner, so I look forward to picking her brains on the practical, divinatory uses of her insights.)
The second idea is a key to hexagram 2: it’s something you can use. A meeting that ‘offers you the Earth’ ( 😉 ) is one that offers abundant resources ready to serve creative purpose. I’ll squeeze in specific questions about as many hexagrams and lines as I can: women in 37 and 44, definitely – and of course Hexagram 2 and the idea of yin itself – all things you can take away and use in your own readings. First you gather in the warmth of the southwest, forge bonds of friendship, make yourself comfortably at home in the tradition. (That word ‘quiet’ in ‘quiet perseverance brings good fortune’ originally shows a woman under a roof.) And then it’s up to you where you go with the new ideas, and what you make of them.
So to be sure of getting a place, please click through here to reserve your seat!