Two pieces of excellent news for ‘Yi people’:
Steve Marshall is updating his blog again at http://www.biroco.com/journal.htm. On April 2nd (scroll down!) he wrote about hexagram 25, line 2 – something I’ve been wondering and speculating on for years.
Hello – just to say I am back at work. Backlogged… dozier than usual… but doing readings and giving feedback on ecourse assignments in the usual way.
‘A cup, a drink, and a plate,
Using earthenware,
Letting them in on ropes from the window.
In the end, no mistake.’
Someone is confined in the Pit – someone reaches them in simple ways. I’ve seen this often enough as advice on how to keep a relationship alive through impossible times… the connection always felt like the one ray of light. But now I have a reading that makes me see an alternative perspective.
Nelson commented on the ‘Kinder I Ching’ page: “Aren’t you all confusing various ‘interpretations’ with a ‘translation’?”
Well – yes, we are. But then they are already inextricably confused.
I Ching Community Discussion Forum: Depends on the version that you use A superb thread, with wonderful insights on translations and versions in general, and what Yi might have to say about love or lust through these many voices.
Embodying the Sphere of Change I don’t have the time now to take this in and write about it intelligently – packing calls 🙂 – but it does provide some intriguing new ways to think about the Yijing. Random excerpt: Each hexagram might be considered as resembling any of the… Read more »Embodying the Sphere of Change
Since I first started working with Yi, I’ve enjoyed asking about the outcome of tennis matches. The dual between individuals, as much psychological as technical – it’s something very natural to divine about, and the outcomes teach me a lot about the hexagrams involved.
You may know my husband doesn’t believe in the efficacy of divination. So of course I had to mention to him how accurately I could call a tennis match, didn’t I?
