It’s a cliché of every I Ching introduction: the oracle is an aid to decision-making. Of course, it’s also perfectly true. Historically, the ancient Chinese divined on decisions about marriage, warfare, whether to open the fields, what to offer to the ancestors. Nowadays people consult the I Ching on which… Read more »Ways to involve the I Ching in decision making
I’ve been enjoying this I Ching introduction from CJ Stone. He goes straight to the heart of the thing: “The I-Ching also has a central character, and a definite place and time period, but its central character is not divine or even remotely inspired, and its time period is not… Read more »Good I Ching introduction
My husband and I go out on the back lawn when the weather’s good enough, and play badminton. Let’s see… David’s six feet tall, lean and wiry and a natural athlete; I’m five foot two, about two stone overweight, and hopelessly uncoordinated – you know the one who can’t even… Read more »The I Ching and badminton
When the new site design goes live, you’ll see a prominent link at the top of each page for ‘Members’. This is where, if you’ve joined as a Friend, you’ll find your free downloads. It’s also the place where, as a customer, you’ll find all your download pages. Let me… Read more »New members’ area (another preview)
The ways you can sign up for things here at the moment are in something of a muddle. You might have signed up for the ‘Answers’ newsletter, where I talk about the latest blog posts in a twice-monthly email. Maybe you got the free I Ching course at the same… Read more »Changes to the email newsletters
Hexagram 18, Corruption, demands that we actively engage with how things are. And things are a mess: there are ‘negative patterns’ playing themselves out, or in other words the same old bad things keep on happening.
That’s how the third line of Hexagram 6, Arguing, begins: ‘Eating ancient de. Constancy: danger. In the end, good fortune. Maybe following king’s business, No accomplishment.’ It’s unusual for Yi to talk in abstract imagery in this way – eating not food, but de. De, as in Daodejing, is virtue,… Read more »Eating ancient de?
