I was working on a reading for a client. And the gist of the answer was unmissable: what she’s asking about is a very good idea. I didn’t understand why it is, though – it’s hard to connect these particular positive images with her question or her situation – and… Read more »Staying at line 3
Hexagram 36, Brightness Hiding or Brightness Injured, can certainly be a danger-signal in a reading: hide your light, risk of injury ahead. But it is also a postive strategy, as this Deng Ming-Dao quotation from Donna Woodka’s Changing Places blog shows. (One to subscribe to, I think.) It also shows… Read more »Hexagram 36 as a Daoist strategy
Spoiled by the mother An interesting account from Allan Lian of an investment reading. He was considering investing more in a company when he asked Yi about this, and received 18, line 2: ‘Ancestral mother’s corruption Does not allow persistence.’ (Or words to that effect: Allan uses the W/B version.)… Read more »Allan Lian on hexagram 18
Here is another audio entry (about 15 minutes, this one) – click the ‘play’ button, or right click here to download the file if that doesn’t work. I’m trying something new here: previously I’ve always written myself a script so I wouldn’t embarrass myself too much with endless ‘um’s and… Read more »Wanderer’s Vessel: a reading
Click the blue ‘play’ button to hear it. Sorry this is so brief… I have a bunch of work waiting for me. More information soon, I hope! Or right-click here and choose ‘save target as’ to download the sound file to your computer.
I think that finding your question for the Yijing is the most important part of any reading. It sets the conditions for the whole conversation with the oracle: while it may or may not constrain what Yi can say, it certainly constrains what we can hear. The question is where… Read more »I Ching questions of ‘doing’ or ‘being’
Good news! When I reviewed Jane Schorre and Carrin Dunne’s Yijing Wondering and Wandering in issues 71 and 72 of the newsletter, it was only available from Amazon in the USA and Canada. Now you can get it direct from Amazon UK without the extra postage costs and delivery time.… Read more »Yijing Wondering and Wandering available from Amazon UK
