Hexagram 37, People in the Home, defines a safe space. Within it we can find our place with one another, and become confident enough in our own identities that we can eventually reach out beyond its walls.
The first line of the hexagram sets up those all-important walls:
‘With barriers,… Read more »The heart of the Home: Not Yet Across
The name of Hexagram 57 – Subtle Penetration, the Wind – shows imperial seals on a stand. LiSe describes them as a personal inner blueprint, something that penetrates everything you do. Some influences flow in steadily and shape you, as wind following wind sculpts trees, or rock.
On his TarotTools site, Mark McElroy keeps coming up with creative suggestions for tarot ‘exercises’ – which, with the minimum of adaptation, could just as well become questions for mind-stretching I Ching readings. A recent article of his, Make Better Choices, suggests questions such as, ‘What core value might I… Read more »Good ideas from tarot
Many, many versions of the Tao Te Ching – in many different languages – with the option of comparing them alongside one another on the same screen. Nice.
Found at Luminous Heart: “Being without doubt has nothing to do with accepting the validity of a philosophy or concept. Absence of doubt comes from trusting in the heart, trusting yourself. Being without doubt means that you connect with yourself, that you experience mind and body being synchronized together. When… Read more »No Doubt
Look at this! http://www.appositive.net/oysterbay/ichingtitle.html I’ve barely started reading, but I feel like a child in a sweetshop already. Very, very good work on the Sequence, on trigrams, and individual hexagrams. Saving the whole lot to my computer now.
Horses in ancient China http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~baojie/history/chinese/2002-12-02_horse.en.htm A nice, long article on the role of horses, basically in the military, from pre-Shang to post-Zhou times. Why would we be interested? It casts new light on why horses are so important in the Yi: why Prince Kang would be especially honoured by a… Read more »Horses in ancient China
