My personal ‘hexagram for the week’: 23, unchanging. Eek. Not so long ago, this wouldn’t have bothered me in the least. I know many people are nervous of the ‘bad’ hexagrams and anticipate disasters whenever they receive hexagrams 23, 44 or 12 (the three most often labelled as ‘bad’). I’ve… Read more »Hexagram 23? Now what?
In my internet wanderings, I came across this post on the Original Faith blog that seems to capture the spirit of being Without Entanglement. “None of this is on my time. I resent nothing and no one. I share in the whole world by laying claim to none of it,… Read more »Spirit of hexagram 25
A sidenote to yesterday’s post about past, present and future… Often what we most want to know is how to do something. How to be in a relationship, how to get through a difficult time, how to make the most of an opportunity, and so on. Then we start spinning… Read more »More on seeking predictions
I have an email asking me for “some instruction on how to identify the past, the present and the future through I Ching reading. I would like to receive any useful comment relating to this topic. My intent is to have more confidence when doing a reading for myself.” Well,… Read more »Past, present, future
Hexagram 20, line 5, has a cryptic brevity – ‘Seeing my own life. The noble one is without mistake.’ – and even more so when you consider that the sixth line differs from it by just one word: ‘Seeing their lives. The noble one is without mistake.’ As you move… Read more »Seeing my own life
I’ve become aware recently of an emotional pattern that makes people reluctant to try a reading with the I Ching. These are open-minded people, interested in spiritual growth and self-knowledge. So they don’t dismiss the idea of divination unthinkingly, as something that obviously couldn’t work. Nor do they avoid it… Read more »Fear of divination?
Jessica Morrell is the author of several books on writing, and here she’s branched out to create an I Ching for writers, specifically applying its imagery to their concerns. The book’s first few short chapters are introductory material. In a nutshell, this contains much insight into divination, interspersed with the… Read more »Book review: Jessica Morrell, Writer’s I Ching
