Sample Yijing readings
Well, I nearly passed first time. If it hadn’t been for the car that materialised on my left at the roundabout… in the space I was steering into… so that the examiner had to grab the wheel, I would have done… After some reflection, I came around to the idea… Read more »More lessons driving
I’ve been learning to drive! Better very-late-indeed than never, perhaps…? And since the Yi – along with a wise driving instructor and generous husband – has been instrumental in making this possible, I thought I’d write about it here. Why so late? Well… I started lessons at 17 like everyone… Read more »Driving, lessons
I was waiting on a station platform with ‘cello when I started chatting with a young man with a guitar on his back. We talked music to start with – not that there was much overlap in our experience, but conversation flowed anyway. (He thought I might’ve heard of John… Read more »(Un)blocked
I’ve written before about Yi’s kindness, but it’s something I keep rediscovering. There’s the gentleness of its responses to people in crisis – all degrees of crisis, without judgement. One of my own favourite readings comes from a moment when I suddenly felt I’d experienced the final straw, had nothing left… Read more »More of Yi’s kindness
A little background Let me set some context for this one. Back in November 2021, I’d just finished planting garlic round the half-dozen raised beds I’ve created over the years, then mulching the beds with a good layer of compost, ready for sowing the following spring. The next day, we… Read more »Reflections on Lasting
This was going to be a simple post A worried client emailed me. He’d just been organising his journal, listing all his readings, and found there were a whole lot more on one topic than he’d thought. He said he was wondering if he’d become ‘a bit of a Yi-aholic.’… Read more »Too many readings?
This is by way of a follow-up to my ‘Dispersing Nourishment‘ reading. I thought I’d share as it’s another reading that shows how Yi helps with the small stuff, and on multiple levels. Besides, I appreciate the eloquence of the trigrams in this one. Background, reading… My joints ache –… Read more »Out of the gate
