‘The wild geese gradually advance to the high plateau. The husband marches out and does not return; The wife is pregnant, but does not nurture the child; Pitfall. Harvest in resisting outlaws.’ Some thoughts based on a single experience of this line. (In other words, not ‘What It Means’, but… Read more »Hexagram 53, line 3
Rosada at the I Ching Community casually dropped in a mention of this rendering of the Yi, which I’d never encountered before. It’s image-based and allusive, and for some reason has been made even more reduced and succinct than the original.
You never know where Yi may show up. Here’s an instructive tale from a Friday afternoon business meeting. I wonder what the reading was?
A note to explain my long silence here: my Mum died a couple of weeks ago, after a long and increasingly debilitating illness. I asked Yi, before we came over to visit her in hospital this time, what I could do for her, and it answered with 23, unchanging. So… Read more »Stripped away
‘Heaven above, lake below. Treading. The noble one differentiates above and below, And sets right the purpose of the ordinary people.’ The Image of Hexagram 10 is really not the easiest one to relate to. It’s more abstract than most, maybe seeming rather ‘dry’. The lake sparkles below heaven… does… Read more »Hexagram 10 and wingless chickens
Here’s another ‘non-Yi’ post I came across that strikes me as helpful in understanding a hexagram. This one from Scott Young, about lateral growth. He differentiates between this and vertical, directed growth: ‘Opportunity is critical for lateral growth. With vertical growth, you are already aware of what you aim and… Read more »Hexagram 3 and Lateral Growth
Here’s the article by David Cornfield with this intriguing title. It raises a lot of questions I don’t have the answers to. The practice of divination, in any of its myriad forms, assumes there is a particular way the world is meant to unfold, that there are forces that promote… Read more »Destiny, divination and the I Ching
