Many, many people start consulting the oracle when they have one overwhelming question in their lives – usually a relationship issue. The questions nag at their waking awareness, linger in their dreams, and result in truly obsessive questioning of the oracle. The same questions are asked again and again in… Read more »Obsessive consulting
At the heart of every hexagram is its ‘nuclear hexagram’. It’s made up of its inner lines: 234 for its lower trigram, 345 for the upper. So for instance if your original hexagram is 18, Corruption – – then by taking its lines 234,345 you uncover the nuclear hexagram 54,… Read more »Nuclear hexagrams – why bother?
‘Squidoo’ is a community site; its members maintain ‘lenses’ – pages that focus in on the best resources for a specific topic. Until a few days ago, people searching there for ‘I Ching’ would’ve found nothing at all. I’ve just created an ‘I Ching lens‘. Please visit! And if you… Read more »I Ching at Squidoo
If you consult the Yijing with yarrow stalks, or with another method (like beads) that has the same odds, then you’ll find that 2, the Receptive, often turns up as relating hexagram. This is because with yarrow odds, yang lines in the primary hexagram are more likely to change than… Read more »Earth as relating hexagram
Excerpts from the I Ching Community: Autumn: ‘I asked the I-ching, “Who do we speak to when we divine?” 34 unchanging.’ (Hexagram 34 is Great Vigour, very much an image of personal power.) And on a separate thread… Bruce: ‘Can the Yijing cause you to lose your personal power? Can… Read more »Yi and personal power
Here are some images from an exhibition of abstract I-Ching-inspired art by Gineen Cooper.
Beth Richmond has posted to the I Ching Community about Nigel Richmond’s poetry: she has a limited number of copies of his poetry pamphlets – Glimpses of the Obvious , Pigs and Fishes, and The Love of Fu Hsi . She is very generously making these available to anyone who’d… Read more »Poetry of Nigel Richmond
