I’ve written before about not being in too much of a hurry to get past your reading’s imagery to ‘what it means’, because the image is what talks to you, and where you live, and somehow is the hinge and pivot of change in a way that a concept isn’t. I just wanted to add… Continue Reading
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Yearly Archives: 2011
How does it work?
No, this is not going to be the post where I explain how Yi answers questions – ask me again after a few more lifetimes – but one where I ponder in a meandering way about how these conversations we have with the Change Book actually result in personal change. Sometimes, of course, they don’t.… Continue Reading
More accidental Yi wisdom
This is from Havi at Fluent Self, who once again is writing about Yi without knowing it. This time she’s unwittingly explaining Hexagram 11, line 1, as a matter of fractal flowers. Hexagram 11 is about Flow, working with it or creating it or stepping into it. There is no issue here with lack of… Continue Reading
Great Possession as Offering
Just one more of those moving-line-related connections that makes it look for all the world as if the people who wrote this oracle knew what they were doing – Start with Hexagram 14, Great Possession – ‘Activate’ its third and fourth lines – change them by opening them out from yang into yin, solid into… Continue Reading
Additive hexagrams?
OK, here’s the off-the-wall idea for the day. What if you could add two hexagrams together? Not changing lines to move from one hexagram to another, but ‘adding’ them, on the basis that yin + yin = yin, but yang + yin = yang, because you imagine the yang line ‘filling’ the empty yin space.… Continue Reading
Already Crossing?
On the one hand, ‘Already Across’ is certainly a good, literal translation of the name of Hexagram 63. The old character for ‘already’ shows someone turned away from a food pot, implying a completed action. The historical resonances of the book as a whole imply that this is the moment when the Zhou have already… Continue Reading
A cycle for diviners?
I wanted to see what you thought of this blog post from James Warlock, who was part of last year’s Festival of Change: The Magickian’s Cycle. It begins: The magickian’s cycle is, in essence, as follow: Become very enthusiastic about magick Practice magick in a regular and dedicated fashion Have an crisis – either external… Continue Reading
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