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… Read more »The I Ching simplified? (a rant)
I Ching Community Discussion Forum: 14.1…negative or not? ‘No intercourse with what is harmful, In no way at fault, Hardship is thus not a mistake.’ or ‘Having no commerce with trouble. To never be wrong Is a hardship, but otherwise not a mistake.’ (Brad) Or even ‘Not associating with violent… Read more »I Ching discussion: hexagram 14 line 1
The short version, in case you don’t have eight minutes to listen to the audio: we had an informal webinar sharing readings; it was a success; people enjoyed it. I’ll be running more of these, and they’ll still be free. And if you want to be sure of hearing about… Read more »I Ching webinar news – and some readings of my own
Hexagram 44 seems to be the most-debated hexagram of the lot. Should we be afraid of what the yin line in the first place represents? Of encroaching evil, temptation, the thin end of the wedge? (Not to mention the unspeakable horrors of ‘a bold girl who lightly surrenders herself’.) Or… Read more »A picture of Hexagram 44 from Paulo Coelho
Sam Crane has a great Taoist blog, the Useless Tree, where he’s branching out into I Ching divination – it looks as though he’s making ‘Friday I Ching blogging’ a regular thing. At the beginning of August, he asked: Will the six party talks on North Korea succeed? Yi says:… Read more »I Ching on international politics
..with photos 😉
We’re having an informal session sharing I Ching readings today at 6pm UK time (that’s US Pacific 10am, Mountain 11am, Central 12 noon, Eastern 1pm, 7pm or later across Europe). This one is free (I hope to recoup costs later by selling the recording). To attend, just log in here… Read more »Free readings webinar today
