Watching TV gives you square eyes, so I’ve been told. Living with Yi gives you that much stranger phenomenon, hexagram eyes. You see little subtle reflections of ideas from the Yijing everywhere. My reading for this year begins with Hexagram 5, so I’m especially attuned to anything that talks about… Read more »Still reading with hexagram eyes
The title says it all, really. I’ll be running an I Ching Class by phone and online, from April 2nd to June 15th. If you reserve your spot before the 19th (that’s two weeks from today), you can catch the ‘early bird’ discount. Â All the details are here – and… Read more »I Ching Class: places available now
… when it says ‘mature people, good fortune,’ substituting ‘hyper-caffeinated headless chicken’ actually doesn’t work. As you probably know, I’m running an I Ching Class from April through June. Getting everything ready for this – the technical stuff, the class notes and reference materials, the private forum, the ways for… Read more »Note to self re-hexagram 7
Over in the quaintly-named ‘Basics’ section of GreatVessel.com, there’s an enticing article on The Voices of the Lines. [Update: now moved here.] As with most of Stephen Karcher’s ideas nowadays, I find I need to take small portions and chew them over well, not try to swallow it all at… Read more »Line 1 as inklings
This year I’m giving myself Fridays off. I don’t seem to get appreciably less work done this way than when I was staring at the computer 5 1/2 days a week, and I’m rediscovering some good things – books, for instance. Today we went up to the British Museum –… Read more »Joys of museums
The fifth line of Hexagram 45, Gathering, reads: ‘Gathering, has a position. No mistake. No truth at all. From the source, ever-flowing constancy. Regrets vanish.’ How can your position in the gathering be ‘no mistake’ if it’s altogether without truth or trust? I picked up Anyway by Kent Keith, author… Read more »Positional friends in Hexagram 45
… as a source of political insight. Suzi Gablik thought it a good source. (She asked about the meaning of the 9/11 attacks and received 15.6.) Her correspondent reacted as if she’d committed blasphemy against the jealous divinity of social science, or something. And Virgil the alligator commented on all… Read more »A dialogue on the I Ching
