Hexagram 30, Clarity, has a lot to say about understanding transience. The fourth line is especially emphatic: ‘Sudden, Comes, Burns, Dies, Thrown out.’ Here is something that flares up brightly, but dies away for lack of fuel. Wilhelm sees someone who ‘rises quickly to prominence but produces no lasting effects.’… Read more »A note on hexagram 30, line 4
Update! What follows is an ancient post, from the days when I still had an unmet wishlist for my I Ching journal software. Then Justin Farrell made us the amazing Resonance Journal, and the rest is history. Do download a trial and give it a go! If you’re interested in… Read more »Yijing software news
I’ve been revisiting the idea of the ‘non-people’ in hexagram 12. The most helpful way to understand them, most of the time, is as people we regard, for whatever reason, as not quite ‘like us’ enough to be real. Most of the time, the problem is with the labelling and… Read more »Hexagram 12 – negative souls?
In case you missed the notices in the forum… the Words of Change Yijing glossary is available now from your membership information page. It doesn’t yet have a formal sales page, but you can read a little more about it here. Just for this week (until Saturday 10th May) it’s… Read more »I Ching glossary available now to Friends
I think I get the most sheer, uncomplicated delight from working with people who have time and space to explore their lives with Yi: mulling over decisions, inviting responses that explode preconceived ideas, asking the huge questions about purpose and meaning that can stay with you for a lifetime. These… Read more »How to work with Yi in times of crisis
A last-minute notice from Mick Frankel: he’s giving a talk on the I Ching at the Friends’ Meeting House in Manchester at 7 this evening. Details here.
I just wandered over to Luis’ Yi blog, where I read that… “Many people, with a only few years of reading and using the Yi, feel otherwise compelled to, and capable of, holding debates about it with those that have spent most of their life dedicated to its study. Even… Read more »How much study does it take?
