The more I look into the King Wen sequence, the more depths I discover. Take the two hexagrams that describe grand, historic events of legendary proportions: 49, Radical Change, and 55, Abundance. Hexagram 49 describes the time of revolution, when the Zhou people overthrew the Shang. And hexagram 55 has… Read more »Layers of story
I’ve just been reading a tale of woe about self-help that didn’t help. A weight-loss group where people didn’t lose weight; a self-development seminar where people didn’t emerge particularly developed. It’s not that there was anything wrong with the message or the method used in either of these places. It obviously… Read more »One size does not fit all
Someone should make a collection of Yi’s many and various ways of saying, ‘Get a grip.’ My site needs redesigning – so you can find what you’re looking for more easily, so I can add more things for sale and you can find those, too, and so on. I’ve decided… Read more »Yi says: do your homework!
I love reading new commentaries on hexagrams – even when the author is unaware even of the existence of the hexagram his work illuminates. This time the hexagram is 46: Pushing Upward, a figure of aspiration and steady, step-by-step progress towards a goal. The article is by Norman Barlow, and… Read more »Making use of seeing the great person
Diviners everywhere, beware. One of my Adwords ads for the I Ching course was just suspended by Google. The ad reads: “I Ching Home Study Course Develop confidence in your own understanding of the oracle” Ad Status: Suspended – Pending Revision SUGGESTIONS: -> Ad Content: Please remove the following trademark… Read more »Legal warning!
There’s a splendid series of threads at the I Ching Community entitled ‘Memorising the I Ching’. Rosada and everyone who pitches in are travelling through hexagram by hexagram, describing what’s memorable about each line. Here’s a list of the threads so far; they’ve got as far as Hexagram 19. Why… Read more »Memorising the I Ching
From Margie: “Maybe this question is quite banal – but what I want to know is how to actually deepen my practice and my understanding of the I Ching. Is there a special procedure that I should follow to do this, or should it be accompanied by a special meditation……?”… Read more »How to deepen
