Over at the I Ching Community, Rosada has just very generously offered to make an ‘I Ching string’ for the next ten people to donate more than $20. An ‘I Ching string’ is a bead set to consult with, which gives you a perfect blend of natural flow and meditative… Read more »I Ching string offer
Yi on Twitter – or, “three thousand year old oracle meets microblogging app” – or something. Hm. What’s Twitter? As far as I can make out, it’s a strange little hybrid of a blog and an instant messaging client: people post personal updates, thoughts of the moment and links to… Read more »Yi on Twitter
I only just stumbled across this excellent article from Harmen about the origin of the character Yi. Read and enjoy! I relish Harmen’s own willingness to change his own mind, too; it’s easy to get married to one’s own theories and settle down into undisturbed domestic bliss – I catch… Read more »Harmen on Change
Following on from a post on hexagram 53, line 1… ‘Wild geese gradually advance to the shore. The small child, danger, There are words, No mistake.’ The obvious question about this line – and I always like to ask the most obvious question – is ‘Why is the small child… Read more »Wild geese and small child
I’m plodding steadily through the work of compiling the multi-translation index I promised for the ‘Words of Change’ glossary. I’m realising various things as I go along… This is a much bigger job than I thought. Erk. If no-one buys it after this I’m going to kick myself into the… Read more »Why you need a concordance
Over on his ‘I Ching insights’ blog, Eric Bryant’s noticed a pattern in his readings. Yi gave him the exact same reading – including the same line changing – for two ‘unrelated’ subjects, business and a relationship. As he points out, you only get to see this kind of thing… Read more »That hexagram again
Brad Hatcher points out that 14 out of 64 hexagrams’ first lines mention feet. I wonder whether there isn’t a fifteenth implied at 49.1: ‘For binding use yellow cowhide’ What might you bind with yellow cowhide? It could be a tethered animal, of course, as Rutt suggests. But looking at… Read more »To change, first tie on your boots
