I wrote a bit before about the dangers of AI interpretation that it might, as 26.1 says, be fruitful to stop: its inaccuracy with hexagrams and text; the peril of having an interpretation handed to you without ever engaging with the imagery yourself; and finally, its lack of emotional engagement.… Read more »There is danger: fruitful to stop
My first encounters with AI interpretation came as a surprise. I hadn’t expected it to be able to work with metaphor, but it could – very well. I had expected it, given two hexagrams, to be able to work out which lines were changing, but it couldn’t. And that makes… Read more »What does interpreting with AI provide?
My inbox has been full of waffle about AI for a couple of years now. Apparently AI could be writing my podcast show notes, my blog posts and lots of courses and books for me to sell. All I need to do is spend 10 minutes entering prompts and it… Read more »AI Interpretation (or – am I redundant yet?)
There’s more than one story of the Yi’s origins… Mythical origins The story begins in the 29th century BCE with Fuxi, China’s first emperor, who may have had the body of a serpent. It was through his insight that the trigrams were discovered, and people could begin to understand their… Read more »Some Yijing origins
We love the layered profundity of the Yijing’s imagery – the way it can speak direct to the soul, giving us entirely new ways of seeing our situation. We know that the Vessel of Hexagram 50 might be a university, or a mindset, or a state of health, or any… Read more »Astonishingly literal
Clarity’s recent member survey (still open here if you missed it) is teaching me a lot about who I’m writing for, how to help, what to improve, and so on – thank you for taking it! Still, I think my favourite part, the question I’m most glad to have asked, is… Read more »Why we cherish Yi
Have you ever tried to explain your relationship with the I Ching to someone? Maybe explaining how you took a decision, solved a problem, reached an insight? Or do you find it simpler just to avoid the subject altogether? Naturally, I find myself mentioning the oracle more often than most:… Read more »Sharing the I Ching
