Following on from a previous post… Hexagram 20, Seeing Hexagram 20 has xun, wind and wood, over earth; its Oracle text suggests earth’s open, available quality: ‘Seeing. Washing hands, and not making the offering.There is truth and confidence like a presence.’ Earth will not act, but allows: the ritual provides… Read more »Earth inside (part 2)
Charlie asked ‘How to navigate?’ and cast Hexagram 27, Nourishment – or Jaws – changing at line 1 to 23, Stripping Away: changing to What followed was a strongly resonant conversation between his inner imagery and the imagery of the Yi – and also the ancient Chinese motif of being… Read more »In the Jaws
Earth inside The easiest way to get to grips with the first two hexagrams, for me, is always to think how much they’re not each other. Qian, the creative force of heaven: nothing but solid lines, like the paths of sun, moon and stars across the sky. It moves without… Read more »Earth inside (part 1)
I’ve been working on a post on the trigram kun, earth, as inner trigram. That one will come soon – this is just something I wondered about along the way. I started going through the sequence of hexagrams, looking at the Image texts for the ones with earth inside… ‘Above… Read more »Ancient kings and their trigrams
How does the Yi help in an impossibly painful situation? It’s hard to describe – deep recognition, being recognised, a sense of reconnection. Dominique’s reading for this episode: “What is the lesson that I must learn through the pain of losing my marriage and our future?” And Yi’s answer: Dispersing… Read more »A marriage dispersing
I have just heard that Stephen Karcher, author of Total I Ching and How to Use the I Ching, collaborator on the original Eranos edition, has died. I owe Stephen a great deal, so I’m writing this to express my gratitude. My very first encounter with the Yi came when… Read more »Stephen Karcher
Where they are in the Yijing There are three mentions in the Zhouyi – the oldest layer of the Yijing text – of ‘establishing feudal lords’: in the Oracle of Hexagram 3, and its first line, and in the Oracle of Hexagram 16. (Then they’re also mentioned in the Image… Read more »Feudal lords
