Here’s a nice coincidence. Elvira emails me and asks, “What is the meaning of Hexagram 38 in daily life?” And over at GreatVessel there is a new article on Hexagram 38 (Opposition/ Diverging) entitled The Shaman of the Shadows – remarkable work that needs reading and re-reading slowly, and with… Read more »Hexagram 38 in daily life
Relationship questions are certainly the most common reason for people to consult the I Ching. They’re also the most common reason for people to get tied in knots of indecision and confusion when consulting. And this is a real shame, as the oracle is a compassionate relationship counsellor, that can… Read more »I Ching readings for relationships
Yijing pictorials from Coyote. A phrase or two to take with you for each hexagram (some ‘morals’, some mini-poems, some like Yi-koans), and images for some of them, too. Go see.
Update! I’ve just revised my I Ching reading services once again. See this post for what’s new, or just go straight to the reading pages to learn more. I’ve been brainstorming, planning and consulting with Yi, and have settled on this much-simplified choice of I Ching reading services: Discussing and… Read more »Changes to I Ching reading services
Here is a post from Ren Qizhen about a reading of his, and here is his review of what came next. Reading the two together, some very strong and informative connections come to mind. He was asking about how to be during a series of business meetings, and phrased his… Read more »Hexagram 45 in practice
There is a new, original article at the Great Vessel: The Voices of the Lines: multiple transforming lines. It describes each line of the hexagram as a ‘voice’, ‘like sounding boxes or wind harps or metaphors.’ Line 1, for example, is described as “The Voice of Beginnings, the first entrance… Read more »The Voices of the Lines
With the turning of the Chinese Year, more people are contemplating their annual I Ching reading. Over at ‘A touch of Ancients’, Allan Lian has written about the synchronicities that accompanied his reading for last year. He’s pausing at the change of year to look back as well as forward… Read more »Annual readings
