I’ve written about Lorena Moore’s site before – her blog is a refuge for anyone interested in the stuff our world’s made of. Now she’s completed her lichen oracle, and you can browse or consult with it online. I’ve a feeling that oracles, made last month or a few millennia… Read more »Lichen Oracle
In The Geography of Thought – a fascinating book about the differences between modern Eastern and Western ways of thought – I learned that, “The combative, rhetorical form is … absent from Asian law. In Asia the law does not consist, as it does in the West for the most… Read more »Hexagram 6 and the Geography of Thought
Plenty of online I Ching readings simulate the yarrow stalk probabilities, including those at this site. But here’s a nice, quick-loading I Ching reading that simulates the process itself of dividing the stalks. Perhaps it’ll encourage people to pick up the real thing.
I asked Yi what a New Year is, and learned that it’s ‘Sprouting’s Brightness Hidden’ – fertile creative potential, shrouded or maybe cocooned in darkness. And specifically, a New Year is like, ‘Pursuing a stag with no forester, Simply entering into the centre of the forest. A noble one reads… Read more »New Year reading moving lines
I can’t think of anything to say about this.
It’s the New Year. There are resolutions, fresh intentions, and a sense of finishing off one ‘segment’ of life and starting a new one. And my Inbox is filled fit to burst with offers, every one of which is the only thing I must have to ensure that 2008 is… Read more »What is New Year?
Well, I’m nicely immersed in all things Christmassy, from tree lights and outings and wrapping paper to the strange dearth of Brussels sprouts in the supermarkets. (Is there a national shortage? Why did nobody tell us?) I fetched my brother over on the 21st, and I’ll take him back on… Read more »De-husking
