Here’s a lovely article by Michelle Wood on Hexagram 24 and Winter Solstice – capturing the quality of the time.
Daoism on winter
Discover new ways to connect with your reading’s imagery
‘Connecting with Imagery’
A recorded workshop / mini-course with simple methods to immerse yourself in your I Ching reading and relate to it on its own terms.
(I’ll email you a link to the workshop and follow up with a guide to Clarity and the twice-monthly ‘Friends’ Notes’ I Ching newsletter. There will be no flood of emails, no spam, and you can unsubscribe any time.)
How can you connect deeply with your reading, so you can recognise what the oracle is saying to you – without rushing to a commentary, or ‘expert’ help, or a long list of trigram associations?
By quietly connecting with its imagery.
Connecting with Imagery lets you explore…
- 🔗Yi’s many layers of imagery
- 🔗simple, direct ways to engage with your reading
- 🔗a few tips to make interpretation much easier
Thank you for linking to my article….I’m honored.
Enjoy!
Michelle
Just a comment if it may be usefull, in the chinese system winter solstice is the middle of the winter, not as the beginning of winter in the western thought.
Togan
Hi Togan,
Thanks for your comment.
I don’t usually think of the winter solstice as the beginning of winter, but I do consider it to be the start of the new year. Apparently there was some precedent for this…there was a conversation on Ray Langley’s chineseastrology list a few years ago (May 2001 according to my files) and several people supported the possibility the ancient Chinese considered this the new year, also. But then, as we know, things Change! 🙂