I’ve never found Hexagram 56 particularly inspiring. (I wasn’t over the moon last December to receive it as my primary hexagram for this year.) Travelling means you’re ‘passing through’; that wherever you are, it’s not where you belong, and there’s not so much you can do there. Its trigrams suggest… Read more »Travelling: the light of being here
This is a follow-up post from these two, about a reading. (And there will be more to come: a single post covering three lines, change patterns and speculations about trigram changes would have been ridiculously long.) Thought in passing… Talking to people in the comments on those posts about personal… Read more »The basic human need Yi answers, part 3: the change
My last post but one was about a reading from years ago, about the human need the Yijing answers. Yi says this is the need for Radical Change, Hexagram 49, changing to Hexagram 48, the Well. Readings with adjoining hexagrams from the Sequence have a particular resonance, I think. In… Read more »The basic human need Yi answers, part 2: the Well
More on that ‘Radical Change at the Well’ reading soon, I promise. But first… Please will you do me a big favour and take this survey? ======================== Update! Two years on, the Resonance Journal software is ready for you to download. Give it a try! ======================== Some background… I store… Read more »Journal Software Survey: a quick request
I’m not quite sure how long ago I cast this reading. A search at archive.org reveals that I’d already uploaded it to IChingResources by April 2001. So some time before then, I had at least noticed that there were, as I put it, ‘books to be written about this answer’.… Read more »The basic human need that Yi answers
The lines of the first two hexagrams can be regarded as keys to understanding all the lines – all yang lines at the beginning being a little like the submerged dragon, all yin lines at the beginning being somehow akin to treading on hoarfrost. These lines are formative, models for… Read more »First instances
Every pair of hexagrams, ie every odd-numbered hexagram with the even-numbered one that follows it, carries some un-pin-downable feeling of ‘inspiration and manifestation’ or ‘question and response’ or ‘yang and yin’. Only I just wonder whether there might be a more specific patterns in the 7s and 8s… Hexagram 7, the… Read more »Another (possible) pattern
