One of the most popular links I ever posted was Eric Sewert’s ‘Way of Heaven’ site for calculating birth hexagrams. If you’re one of the people who emailed me to ask where it had gone – it’s moved to www.Hall-Of-Man.com.
I posted about hexagram 15, especially line 3. I hadn’t even noticed that Stephen Karcher had posted a reading of his own with the exact same hexagram and line. These grey hamsters get everywhere. There’s also a discussion about Stephen’s reading at the Great Vessel forum.
The Judgement of Hexagram 15 says that, ‘Integrity creates success, The noble one completes things.’ What’s the significance of ‘completing things’ (literally, ‘having completion’), as against just ‘succeeding’? Wilhelm translates this as ‘carries things through’ and describes it as completing one’s work; he mentions how much simpler and more effective… Read more »The noble one completes it?
Here’s Donna Woodka’s lovely blog, Changing Places, quoting Deng Ming Tao as he speaks out against divination. Specifically, he’s opposed to the use of divination in big, life-changing decisions – because, according to him – divination amounts to looking for reassurance from forces “out there” – which doesn’t work depending… Read more »Deng Ming Tao on divination
If you follow the ‘Blog of the Wandering Sages’ you’ll have heard of Caroline Casey’s Visionary Activism radio show. Stephen Karcher has just been a guest on her show for a second time – this time together with a Voodoo expert. You can stream the audio from here, or download… Read more »More audio with Stephen Karcher
Questioning the question – Harmen’s Dagboek Harmen challenges the conventional wisdom that it’s necessary to create a focussed, specific question. He is concerned that you can limit your perception as you limit the scope of your question, and hence miss what is truly important. Instead, he suggests ‘addressing a situation’… Read more »Questioning the question
The I Ching is the Book of Change. So when there is a change I very much want to make, but somehow haven’t managed yet, why not call on the oracle’s help? The most obvious way to do this is to ask directly ‘How to…?’ – and I’ve discovered many… Read more »Book of Change
