It’s a worthwhile exercise to look through the Sequence of hexagrams and see how it occasionally uses trigrams to tell stories – not just in its larger landscapes, but on a small scale. I’ve written about this quite a few times before, but I just noticed one that I’d missed… Read more »A trigram sequence vignette
And I thought I wrote about trigrams in the Sequence. Heh. Here’s Frank Kegan doing a very complete and insightful job of it. He sees the Sequence in groups of ten (which I’ve found works startlingly well – you might think that more patterns would emerge if you took it… Read more »The Sequence in trigrams – and decades
In my inbox today: a very short response to the last edition of ‘Friends’ Notes’: “dear Hilary! not interested. S….” OK, OK. This is positively the last time I’ll mention, and link to, and generally encourage you seriously to consider attending, the I Ching Class. Tomorrow is the final day… Read more »I Ching Class deadline tomorrow
Which I Ching translation are you most likely to pick up for a reading? I ask because I’m putting together a list of translations to include in the ‘multi-translation index’ of a small I Ching glossary I’m putting together. (And also just because it’d be very interesting to learn what… Read more »Which translations do you use most?
Do you know the feeling of being actually thirsty for readings? It’s a little like the need to talk with someone you love, a little like the need for soul-nourishment that you might satisfy by walking in woods, or making music, or creating something. There’s an inner pull towards the… Read more »Thirsty for readings
Watching TV gives you square eyes, so I’ve been told. Living with Yi gives you that much stranger phenomenon, hexagram eyes. You see little subtle reflections of ideas from the Yijing everywhere. My reading for this year begins with Hexagram 5, so I’m especially attuned to anything that talks about… Read more »Still reading with hexagram eyes
The title says it all, really. I’ll be running an I Ching Class by phone and online, from April 2nd to June 15th. If you reserve your spot before the 19th (that’s two weeks from today), you can catch the ‘early bird’ discount. Â All the details are here – and… Read more »I Ching Class: places available now
