My personal reading for the week ahead is Hexagram 23, Stripping Away, changing at lines 4 (eek) and 6 to 16, Enthusiasm. I only cast the reading on Saturday morning, and by Sunday I was altogether stumped by the demands of ‘stripping away’. Unsubscribe from about 30 email publications, clear… Read more »Visualising an I Ching reading
Rosada asks at the I Ching Community about the difference between the Judgement of 24 – that talks about going out and returning, moving freely – and the Image, that says the ancient kings closed the frontiers so people couldn’t travel. Good things have been said in response. Rosalie wrote:… Read more »I Ching Community: What’s the deal with 24?
A few weeks ago, I went to stay with Mum for a while, helping her out after a stay in hospital. First thing after we arrived, I asked Yi for advice for the next week or so, and received Hexagram 16, Enthusiasm, changing at the fourth line to Hexagram 2.… Read more »Meeting Grey Rat
Does this happen to you? As it seems to happen to me more and more often. When I am reading for myself, asking a question from my core, then I will often know after the first few lines which hexagram I’ll receive. In mid-casting, the idea pops into my head… Read more »Knowing your hexagram as you cast
Discussing the fourth ‘readings panel’ at GreatVessel, Rodrigo says that the absence of moving lines indicates that the situation is an objective reality: there are no subjective choices to be made. This is a good way of understanding moving lines – that they are the openings for subjective choice. I… Read more »Unchanging hexagram
The fourth ‘Readings Panel’ reading at GreatVessel.com is one Stephen Karcher cast on behalf of a group in June 2002: “What about President Bush and his plans for a war on Iraq? What attitude or stance can we take towards this?” Yi said “Keep Still”. (Gen, hexagram 52) It’s a… Read more »I Ching for activists at GreatVessel.com
Interesting discussion at the I Ching Community: Tips for writing your own I Ching
