At about.com I just came across a collection of articles offering O’Shea’s reading of the I Ching. The overall orientation is strangely gloomy – since when is Hexagram 59 all about dissipation and aimlessness, and 37 about ‘bottled and stifled ambition and development’? Hm. And some of his assertions are… Read more »I Ching articles on about.com
Dodging Invisible Rays » 59 – Dispersing Here’s a post about a remarkable reading. Pauline Kilar resolved to learn a divination system, took up the I Ching, and found it inaccessible. (Not helped by starting at the very, very deep end, with yarrow stalks and Total I Ching.) So she… Read more »I Ching on Tarot
I reviewed Ron Masa’s I Ching introduction at length here (part 1) and here (part 2). It’s a warm, genuine, clear and straightforward introduction; if you don’t need it yourself, you might consider buying it for a friend. At the time of the review, this was only available as an… Read more »I Ching ebook and audio
Hexagram 14, line 6 was part of my reading for the week. It hasn’t been a great week, and I’ve been using my reading not only for its advice, but also as a reminder, a kind of talisman. Waiting for the pharmacist to make up my Mum’s prescription, I went… Read more »Hexagram 14, line 6
There’s a new I Ching diviner on the block – actually, a very experienced one who’s just made a home on the web, at Ichingconsultation.com. I browsed to the ‘articles’ page and especially enjoyed the one on Hexagrams 37 and 38. Very good thoughts on pairs, trigrams, ruling lines and… Read more »A new I Ching site
It occurs to me that back in an agrarian society, every ordinary activity would have its ritual place in the bigger scheme of things. Ploughing, sowing, harvesting, storing and ripening – these things have so much latent meaning that we still use them as part of our daily language even… Read more »Another question for the I Ching
Steve Marshall has written an article on Nigel Richmond and the I Ching, and includes with it pdf copies of Richmond’s two I Ching books. One of them is very hard to find, the other is near-enough impossible, and here they both are for us to download, for free. Lucky… Read more »Nigel Richmond
