Decrease, Increase Hexagrams 41 and 42, Decreasing and Increasing, are an especially clear hexagram pair: the two of them together describe a single phenomenon, seen from two perspectives. There is a single flow of energy, life and abundance, and it moves as a cycle: ‘Decrease, Increase, the beginnings of abundance… Read more »Hexagram 41, Decreasing
A few years ago now, I first noticed the Vessel Casting pattern in the Sequence, and got tremendously excited about it. For the past couple of months, I’ve been developing those ideas and their application in readings for Part 5 of ‘Exploring the Sequence’, which Change Circle members can find… Read more »Vessel Casting Patterns
Its name and nature The name of Hexagram 37 is simply 家人, jiaren, ‘Home People’ – which also means the members of a family. Here’s the old form of the character – – where you can see that a ‘home’ is an animal – a pig – under a roof. Home is… Read more »Hexagram 37, People in the Home
The Yijing as a whole is a rather disconcerting book. It can say things we don’t understand, or, worse, things we understand perfectly well but don’t want to know. A reading can be reassuring, can reinforce your thinking, or it can give you a real jolt. ‘I have had this truly… Read more »How to make Yi less disconcerting
Short review Don’t buy this one. Buy Minford and Redmond instead – or save up for Field, which I feel is worth its somewhat eye-watering price. Longer review Here’s the publisher’s blurb for Paul Fendos’ new I Ching: ‘The Book of Changes: A Modern Adaptation and Interpretation attempts to breathe… Read more »Paul Fendos ‘Book of Changes’ review
I’ve written before about looking at groups of changing lines, and seeing how they point towards their changed hexagram – just as a single line would do. (I’ve just added all those posts to a series, so you can find them all easily.) Here’s another for the collection: Hexagram 62,… Read more »Clarity and the flying bird
Hexagram 4 has an exceptionally clear, direct Oracle: ‘Not knowing, creating success. I do not seek the young ignoramus, the young ignoramus seeks me. The first consultation speaks clearly. The second and third pollute the waters, Polluted, and hence not speaking. Constancy bears fruit.’ It’s often the one that gives… Read more »Not knowing about dodder
