A comic aside to start with. About 95% of the way through writing this post, looking up a link I wanted to include to an old one, I happened on this one from 2007. I’d entirely forgotten its existence. Ah, well. Nourished on ancient blog posts, perhaps? Here’s a more… Read more »Ancient de, revisited
Here’s episode 64 of the podcast, with a reading about recovery from depression: How to be well? By Limping with Clarity… changing to This looks like a complicated reading, but it really isn’t. If you’d like to share a reading of your own on the podcast, you can do that… Read more »How to be well
The Yi has quite a bit to say about food and drink generally, and wine in particular. While food has always seemed to me to be a fairly simple image for how you participate in your world – what you internalise, how you meet your essential needs – wine is… Read more »Drinking with Yi
A reading for a decision this time: Sha asked, “If I build another tech company, what will the experience be like?” Yi answered with Hexagram 27, Nourishing, changing at lines 2 and 3 to 26, Great Tending: changing to So that gave her an interesting couple of moving lines: ‘Unbalanced… Read more »Ways of Nourishing
Bill asked about his dating prospects, and received – of all things – the sixth line of Hexagram 24, Returning… changing to …which is exactly no-one’s favourite line. So how do you respond when Yi’s answer is all doom and gloom, and really not what you hoped to hear? You… Read more »Coping with a gloomy reading
A listener’s reading for this month’s podcast: Ann asked, ‘How do I integrate myself as an artist with everyday life?’ And Yi answered with Hexagram 14, Great Possession, changing at lines 1 and 3 to 64, Not Yet Crossing. changing to (If you enjoy this, please share it!)
One of the strangest things about conversations with Yi is how immediately relatable most of its imagery is. Life is a journey; we walk our paths (Hexagram 24). We can be stressed and over-burdened to breaking point (Hexagram 28) – it’s actually next-to impossible for us to talk or think… Read more »Making offerings?
