At 7pm UK time tomorrow – Saturday 27th – I’m hosting a call to discuss divination, benefitting more from each reading, staying connected and being changed by it. The call is free, and not a discussion of technical Yijing things; it’s intended to be useful to anyone with an interest… Read more »Powerful Change call tomorrow
Here it is… I Ching podcast, episode 1. In future I’d like to add more sections to this – some interviews, feedback, shared experiences, maybe even some music like a real, grown-up podcast. Some of the more in-depth stuff will be for Change Circle members only, but there’ll always be… Read more »Living Change I Ching podcast
Here’s a whole field of study where (as far as I know) we’ve barely scratched the surface. Each hexagram line ‘points towards’ the hexagram created when it changes, its zhi gua. It’s natural enough to go through the I Ching line by line and see how each one reflects the… Read more »Hexagram relationships
I just added my Twitter updates to the blog’s sidebar. You can see them over on the right, just below the subscription buttons and above the ‘Recent Comments’. Then it dawned on me I should maybe explain what on earth this is. Twitter is a kind of cross between a… Read more »What are ‘Twitter updates’?
Learning in groups has never come naturally to me. Back in college, when everyone else was hurrying to attend the tutors’ revision sessions before Finals, I was sitting alone in my room, in the middle of the floor, entirely surrounded by my own densely-scrawled notes full of original ideas. And… Read more »A cheerful lightness
There seem to be two distinct streams of ideas flowing in Hexagram 49, Radical Change. First, it’s arguably the apex, along with Hexagram 50, of the great historical narrative of the Zhou conquest. ‘Radical Change puts away the old; the Vessel grasps renewal.’ The old regime is overthrown here; the… Read more »The nature of Radical Change
After the success of my first I Ching Class last Spring, I’ll be running a second class for a further 12 people in October and November. The class will centre on eight weekly teleclasses (phone calls on a conference line) with comprehensive handouts for each call and reference materials. There’ll… Read more »News: I Ching Class begins October 5th
