‘DIY’ tips for I Ching divination
Tarot & Synchronicity – Pop Occulture “So what does synchronicity *mean*? What is it trying to tell you? Here’s how I look at it. The message is simple: Everything is connected. You might not understand how or why right now. And that’s not what’s important. What’s important is that things… Read more »What does synchronicity mean?
Here’s Donna Woodka’s lovely blog, Changing Places, quoting Deng Ming Tao as he speaks out against divination. Specifically, he’s opposed to the use of divination in big, life-changing decisions – because, according to him – divination amounts to looking for reassurance from forces “out there” – which doesn’t work depending… Read more »Deng Ming Tao on divination
Questioning the question – Harmen’s Dagboek Harmen challenges the conventional wisdom that it’s necessary to create a focussed, specific question. He is concerned that you can limit your perception as you limit the scope of your question, and hence miss what is truly important. Instead, he suggests ‘addressing a situation’… Read more »Questioning the question
Unusual techniques for applying I Ching hexagrams describes a kinaesthetic approach to understanding both trigrams and hexagrams: “You can hold any hexagram as a ‘shape’ in your body by holding or releasing tension in various parts of your torso” Interesting!
In the introduction to The Original I Ching Oracle by Ritsema and Sabbadini, I found an image for an I Ching reading that I wish I’d thought of for myself: an hourglass. ‘In the top half of the hourglass all the complexity and confusion of our existential situation gets narrowed… Read more »I Ching reading as hourglass
“When you get a figure, a hexagram, what it really is is like a mask. And you put it on and move and dance in that spirit and something happens: you experience significance.” This is from Stephen Karcher’s radio interview with Caroline Casey on her Visionary Activist Show. (Visit that… Read more »I Ching quote of the week
Relationship questions are certainly the most common reason for people to consult the I Ching. They’re also the most common reason for people to get tied in knots of indecision and confusion when consulting. And this is a real shame, as the oracle is a compassionate relationship counsellor, that can… Read more »I Ching readings for relationships
