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ICC: Hexagram 3

Dobro asked, “How can it be advantageous to carry out what one thinks right, and at the same time to abstain from moving things in a conscious direction?” Helpful and thought-provoking answers here.

Trigrams in the sequence III

Following on from this article about the sequence of trigrams through 10 and 11, here’s another place where looking at the trigrams casts light on the story behind the sequence: from Hexagram 12 to 13. Hexagram 12 is Obstruction and negation: communication is completely blocked; everything has ground to a… Read more »Trigrams in the sequence III

A practical reading

Just a small example of the kind of day-to-day help Yi provides for the asking. Not earth-shattering, just solid common sense (which, as my Mum’s Mum used to say, isn’t common) and good advice.

I Ching Community: Hexagrams of sleeping and dreaming?

I Ching Community Discussion Forum: Hexagrams of sleeping and dreaming? Peter asked, “what hexagrams reflect processes of sleeping and dreaming?” Some good – and interestingly different – suggestions are coming up. Do you dream in water, light or thunder?

The I Ching simplified? (a rant)

Mark McElroy, of tarottools.com, has kindly sent me the proofs of his upcoming book, I Ching for Beginners. And as beginners’ books go, it’s pretty good, with some useful, thought-provoking ways of approaching the hexagrams. I’ll review it later on its own merits – but first, I need to get this rant out of my system. Because Mark swells the growing numbers of ‘modernisers’ and ‘simplifiers’ who carefully remove all the oracle’s imagery.