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The basic human need Yi answers, part 2: the Well

This entry is part 2 of 6 in the series The need Yi answers: 49.1.2.4 to 48

My last post but one was about a reading from years ago, about the human need the Yijing answers. Yi says this is the need for Radical Change, Hexagram 49, changing to Hexagram 48, the Well. Readings with adjoining hexagrams from the Sequence have a particular resonance, I think. In… Read more »The basic human need Yi answers, part 2: the Well

First instances

The lines of the first two hexagrams can be regarded as keys to understanding all the lines – all yang lines at the beginning being a little like the submerged dragon, all yin lines at the beginning being somehow akin to treading on hoarfrost. These lines are formative, models for… Read more »First instances

Another (possible) pattern

Every pair of hexagrams, ie every odd-numbered hexagram with the even-numbered one that follows it, carries some un-pin-downable feeling of ‘inspiration and manifestation’ or ‘question and response’ or ‘yang and yin’. Only I just wonder whether there might be a more specific patterns in the 7s and 8s… Hexagram 7, the… Read more »Another (possible) pattern

Hexagram 40 and forgiveness

Apologies if you had higher expectations from that portentous title, but this is just a quick note – the kind of meeting of patterns of ideas that I enjoy. Here’s an article from Bri Saussy about sin. Now I’ve learned that the original Greek, hamartia, means missing the mark, I… Read more »Hexagram 40 and forgiveness

Yi and times of crisis

I see I have made no posts here for over a month. Eep. Why? Erm, let me give you the short version. My Mum-in-law was admitted to hospital as an emergency (this is not the same admission I wrote about before). That was all very intense and dramatic… and it… Read more »Yi and times of crisis