Comments on whole hexagrams, individual lines and so on
One of the things we Westerners need to learn when divining with the Yijing is a certain flexibility about gender. Women need to be able to identify with a series of male kings and heroes (Kings Wen and Wu, Yu the Great, King Hai…), to say nothing of finding a… Read more »Constancy of the woman
Quote from Using the I Ching: Exposing the Image | dailyrevolution.net : “One of the best examples of the clarity that the Anthony and Moog text has added to our understanding of the I Ching can be found in how the authors treat the traditional Image portion of the text:… Read more »Exposing the Image?
Here’s an email I can’t resist quoting: “I logged in finally the other day and peeked at the emerging WikiWing. WOW! This is just brilliant and I agree with everyone that it is something I would happily pay for in book form! I just browsed a bit on hexagram 5… Read more »Hexagram 9 – WikiWing contribution
There are two lines in Hexagram 20 that differ by just one word: Line 5 – ‘Seeing my own life. The noble one is without mistake.’ Line 6 – ‘Seeing their lives. The noble one is without mistake.’ Seeing ‘my own’ life, or seeing ‘his, her or their’ life. How… Read more »Hexagram 20, Seeing Life
So that Change Circle’s ‘WikiWing’ doesn’t start life as 64 empty pages, I’m writing my own contribution for each hexagram before we open – an edited and distilled version of my own working notes. That way there’ll be something there to refer to for every hexagram and line right from… Read more »Hexagram 47 – WikiWing contribution
I first read this story in Women Who Run with the Wolves, and it was one of those ‘scribbling hexagrams in the margins’ moments for me. You can read a longer version of the tale here, but this is the core of it: Vassilissa was a beautiful young girl who… Read more »Fire inside and outside
The Vessel, ding, is the name of hexagram 50. It refers to a particularly beautiful and sacred bronze vessel, fit for food to be shared with the ancestors, strong enough to inaugurate a dynasty. You move your ding by inserting a carrying handle through its ‘ears’, loops on its rim.… Read more »The vessel with a jade handle
