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Rejecting the standard

Rejecting the standard

There are two lines in Hexagram 27, Nourishment, that refer to ‘rejecting the standard’: ‘Unbalanced nourishment.Rejecting the standard, looking to the hill-top for nourishment.Setting out to bring order – pitfall.’ Hexagram 27, line 2 ‘Rejecting the standard,Dwelling here with constancy: good fortune.Cannot cross the great river.’ Hexagram 27, line 5 So what are ‘standards’, and… Continue Reading

A relationship without anxiety?

A relationship without anxiety?

Here’s a new episode of the I Ching with Clarity podcast for you, with a listener’s reading about a relationship problem that a lot of people will be able to relate to. Danielle’s reading was Hexagram 41, Decreasing, changing to 42, Increasing: changing to Seven minutes or so into the episode, I pause to talk… Continue Reading

Hexagrams as pictures

Hexagrams as pictures

On not knowing the first thing about the Yi Back in 2015, I titled a post, ‘I don’t know the first thing about the Yi‘. By this I meant not knowing how it came to be – how people first knew that a certain pattern of lines belonged with certain words. Well… I still don’t.… Continue Reading

Portrait of a relationship

Portrait of a relationship

A reading for an I Ching Community member, Honey, aka MeltingPot247, with four moving lines full of darkness and warnings – What do I need to know about this relationship as it is now? The answer: Hexagram 32, Lasting, changing at lines 1, 3 4 and 6 to 41, Decrease. changing to There’s a lot… Continue Reading

Walking round the pathway of 42.6

Walking round the pathway of 42.6

This isn’t one of those posts where I explore many different experts’ translations and interpretations of a line. Instead, it’s just things I’ve learned from a combination of reading experiences and a line pathway. What’s a line pathway? A line pathway is what LiSe calls ‘mirrors’: a group of four lines, connected either through change… Continue Reading

Hexagram 4, line 1

Hexagram 4, line 1

Here at the very beginning of Not Knowing, there’s a line that says, ‘Sending out the ignoramus,Fruitful to make use of punishing people,To make use of loosening fetters and manacles.Going on in that way is shameful.’ Or, you know, something along those lines. It’s a little too early to be certain, when the line is… Continue Reading

Mountain above: hexagrams 41 and 52

Mountain above: hexagrams 41 and 52
This entry is part 4 of 4 in the series Mountain above

There are just two ‘outer mountain’ hexagrams in the Upper Canon: 41, Decreasing, and 52, Stilling. Hexagram 41, Decreasing The Oracle Hexagram 41 is Sun 損: decrease, damage, harm, weakening. So the words of the oracle that define it are startling – ‘Decreasing has truth and confidence.From the source, good fortune.Not a mistake, there can… Continue Reading

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