I just wandered over to Luis’ Yi blog, where I read that… “Many people, with a only few years of reading and using the Yi, feel otherwise compelled to, and capable of, holding debates about it with those that have spent most of their life dedicated to its study. Even… Read more »How much study does it take?
Over at the I Ching Community, Rosada has just very generously offered to make an ‘I Ching string’ for the next ten people to donate more than $20. An ‘I Ching string’ is a bead set to consult with, which gives you a perfect blend of natural flow and meditative… Read more »I Ching string offer
Yi on Twitter – or, “three thousand year old oracle meets microblogging app” – or something. Hm. What’s Twitter? As far as I can make out, it’s a strange little hybrid of a blog and an instant messaging client: people post personal updates, thoughts of the moment and links to… Read more »Yi on Twitter
I only just stumbled across this excellent article from Harmen about the origin of the character Yi. Read and enjoy! I relish Harmen’s own willingness to change his own mind, too; it’s easy to get married to one’s own theories and settle down into undisturbed domestic bliss – I catch… Read more »Harmen on Change
Following on from a post on hexagram 53, line 1… ‘Wild geese gradually advance to the shore. The small child, danger, There are words, No mistake.’ The obvious question about this line – and I always like to ask the most obvious question – is ‘Why is the small child… Read more »Wild geese and small child
I’m plodding steadily through the work of compiling the multi-translation index I promised for the ‘Words of Change’ glossary. I’m realising various things as I go along… This is a much bigger job than I thought. Erk. If no-one buys it after this I’m going to kick myself into the… Read more »Why you need a concordance
Over on his ‘I Ching insights’ blog, Eric Bryant’s noticed a pattern in his readings. Yi gave him the exact same reading – including the same line changing – for two ‘unrelated’ subjects, business and a relationship. As he points out, you only get to see this kind of thing… Read more »That hexagram again
