I’ve just added a full-length article on hexagram 62 to the ‘hexagrams’ page. I’ve tried to take guo in its simplest sense, of ‘stepping across a line’, and explore what it means to do this in a small way. It seems to me to be very difficult: it’s one thing… Read more »Hexagram 62 – a big transition in small steps
My I Ching reading for last week was Hexagram 36, Brightness Hiding, with no changing lines. And following the plans I’d already made for that week, which involved reaching out and making connections to others in various ways, I hit one technical road-hump after another. (Moral of this story: consider… Read more »The challenge of Hexagram 44
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?
Hexagram 20, line 5, has a cryptic brevity – ‘Seeing my own life. The noble one is without mistake.’ – and even more so when you consider that the sixth line differs from it by just one word: ‘Seeing their lives. The noble one is without mistake.’ As you move… Read more »Seeing my own life
I was just reading this post by Hollis Polk, ‘Does synchronicity have a structure?’ She’s just experienced a truly uncanny sequence of synchronicities, all in support of her new teleclass. They leave her wondering, “I’d like to believe that it was my clear intention to do this class for free, and… Read more »Experiencing synchronicity
También disponible en español In the context of readings, this sometimes turns out to be one of Yi’s more humorous responses. Just a few days ago I asked what changing to a well-known autoresponder service would bring my business, and received 5.5 to 11. So I went ahead and signed… Read more »Hexagram 5: Waiting
