Use of the I Ching in the Analytic Setting An intelligent, in-depth article about the uses of the I Ching in Jungian analysis. There are good sections here on areas where the I Ching can help (relationships, depression, major decisions, and psychoanalytic training programmes!), and some clear examples of what… Read more »Use of the I Ching in the Analytic Setting
Harmen’s gone back to the first character of the Zhouyi and offers the theory that it originally depicted a banner. As always with Harmen, very interesting reading! The banner of ‘qian’ – Harmen’s Dagboek
Thanks to two correspondence course customers who have shared their experience with templates. You know who you are!
I find I get a lot further with my readings, learn more and change more as a result, when I use a template to record and study them. Here are a few ideas I hope you’ll find useful…
Useful elements in a basic reading template (and why you might want to try them)
Over at the I Ching Community, Demitra has shared some readings about vegetarianism and meat-eating: not just which is right for her, but what each means for humanity as a whole. Have a look at those readings here (they’re very interesting, and not what anyone from either side of the… Read more »Is this the Wrong Question?
I was working on a reading for a client. And the gist of the answer was unmissable: what she’s asking about is a very good idea. I didn’t understand why it is, though – it’s hard to connect these particular positive images with her question or her situation – and I do like to do more than provide just the ‘good idea’/’bad idea’ reading. The oracle does more than that, after all, so I’d feel I was letting people down if I didn’t go deeper.
Hexagram 36, Brightness Hiding or Brightness Injured, can certainly be a danger-signal in a reading: hide your light, risk of injury ahead. But it is also a postive strategy, as this Deng Ming-Dao quotation from Donna Woodka’s Changing Places blog shows. (One to subscribe to, I think.) It also shows… Read more »Hexagram 36 as a Daoist strategy
Spoiled by the mother An interesting account from Allan Lian of an investment reading. He was considering investing more in a company when he asked Yi about this, and received 18, line 2: ‘Ancestral mother’s corruption Does not allow persistence.’ (Or words to that effect: Allan uses the W/B version.)… Read more »Allan Lian on hexagram 18
