Diviners everywhere, beware. One of my Adwords ads for the I Ching course was just suspended by Google. The ad reads: “I Ching Home Study Course Develop confidence in your own understanding of the oracle” Ad Status: Suspended – Pending Revision SUGGESTIONS: -> Ad Content: Please remove the following trademark… Read more »Legal warning!
There’s a splendid series of threads at the I Ching Community entitled ‘Memorising the I Ching’. Rosada and everyone who pitches in are travelling through hexagram by hexagram, describing what’s memorable about each line. Here’s a list of the threads so far; they’ve got as far as Hexagram 19. Why… Read more »Memorising the I Ching
From Margie: “Maybe this question is quite banal – but what I want to know is how to actually deepen my practice and my understanding of the I Ching. Is there a special procedure that I should follow to do this, or should it be accompanied by a special meditation……?”… Read more »How to deepen
I love those times when wise people unwittingly echo the Yijing. Here’s one such moment: How to make commitments you will actually keep. Scott Young talks about how, in order to keep our commitments, it helps to understand that we’re a community of selves. The motivated one, the apathetic one,… Read more »Hexagram 7 and the army of you
I had this conversation again with a client the other day. Which was better, for me to cast the hexagram on her behalf, or for her to do it herself? Some people are concerned that if they cast for themselves, their own desires might somehow make the oracle ‘go wrong’;… Read more »Who should cast the hexagram?
Oh look… a new post at the Great Vessel blog. They have new forums (including an ‘ask Stephen Karcher’ area), a new example reading, a revised links page, and a promise of more good things to come. Watch that space.
También disponible en español (A good friend who received Hexagram 9 in response to a profound personal reading, as part of the image of her self, asked me how I saw it. So here are some pictures of Small Taming.) The key concept for hexagram 9 and hexagram 26 is… Read more »Hexagram 9: Small Taming
