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I Ching

Why open space for change?

I’ve been asking people, for the past couple of weeks, why it’s important to them to open space for change. The answers have been eye-opening – and with the first space-opening call today, it seemed a good moment to try to respond myself. Why’s it important to me to open… Read more »Why open space for change?

How New is your Year?

I’m not a great Christmas-enthusiast, but there’s something about New Year that always delights me. I imagine it’s simply the promise of newness: things may have been a certain way last year, but that needn’t prove anything about this year. It’s a grand, sparkling invitation to remake habits and patterns,… Read more »How New is your Year?

No fears

I was pretty much bowled over a couple of days ago when a publishing company – a real one that does real, paper books and pays authors – contacted me to ask if I’d be interested in doing an I Ching book. Would I?! Of course I would. At least…… Read more »No fears

Book of Changes

The Yijing/ I Ching is the Change Classic; its friends often just call it by name, ‘Yi’, ‘Change’. The word spreads wide ripples of meaning: the cyclic, recurring changes represented in the regular structure and sequence of the hexagrams; the sudden changes captured by the moving lines. Yi represents change… Read more »Book of Changes

Trigram topography?

I’m enjoying reading Stephen Field’s Ancient Chinese Divination, especially the insight into the early understanding of qi and how it flows. I’m just reading his description of Form School fengshui. While its earliest written description is (in Yijing terms) relatively young (the Tang dynasty Book of Burial), the fundamental idea… Read more »Trigram topography?