On the one hand… …divination with Yi is not particularly about getting what you want. As a wise person pointed out recently in Reading Circle, it’s not life-as-catalogue: ‘I want that person/ this experience/ that possession, so how do I get it?’ We need to be at least somewhat aware… Read more »Wanting
I enjoy the basement of Oxford’s remaindered/discount book shop – all kinds of entertaining things end up there. My latest trip yielded The Psychic Tourist by William Little, a journalistic book in which he investigates one claim after another (psychics, mediumship, remote viewing…), typically finding good stories that turn out to… Read more »Deeper waters
I’ve been talking with each speaker for the Festival of Change, bouncing ideas around, discussing what we’ll cover in their call, and getting to the point where – never mind the whole running-an-event, selling-tickets thing – I’m really looking forward to this just for what I can learn from these… Read more »Shape of a reading
Some wise person (who may or may not have been Einstein) once said that everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler. Seems like good advice for divination. Thing is, we do seem to make it complicated. There’s the way we somehow manage to get from spending… Read more »As simple as possible
I’ve stumbled across a question to ask Yi that’s rapidly becoming one of my favourites: ‘What’s the gift?’ It can be asked about almost anything, of course. A situation, an approach, a book… I just asked about what my new way of eating gives me, and had a very clear,… Read more »Ask about the gift
I don’t normally find it easy to read tarot blogs – I just don’t know enough about tarot to ‘get’ it most of the time – but I’m delighting in Ginny Hunt’s post about Intuition and Making Shit Up. She’s definitely talking about people’s experience with the I Ching, too:… Read more »Making up the answers
I sometimes think of Stephen Karcher as the alchemist of Yijing interpretation, working away in his divination-laboratory and emerging from time to time with new techniques and tools of interpretation for diviners to test out. I’ll always try what he offers, and often find it immensely useful – though by… Read more »Shadow hexagrams
