Hexagram 20, line 5, has a cryptic brevity – ‘Seeing my own life. The noble one is without mistake.’ – and even more so when you consider that the sixth line differs from it by just one word: ‘Seeing their lives. The noble one is without mistake.’ As you move… Read more »Seeing my own life
I’ve become aware recently of an emotional pattern that makes people reluctant to try a reading with the I Ching. These are open-minded people, interested in spiritual growth and self-knowledge. So they don’t dismiss the idea of divination unthinkingly, as something that obviously couldn’t work. Nor do they avoid it… Read more »Fear of divination?
One of the meanings of the “I” in “I Ching” is “easy” or “simple”. Given the smallest opening, it will speak to your heart, reconnect you with the deeper patterns and meanings of your life, and let you move with the flow instead of swimming doggedly upstream. But it doesn’t… Read more »10 ways to make your I Ching experience difficult and frustrating
There are times – plenty of them – when not being able to think of a question for the I Ching seems an impossible luxury, and the difficult thing is to stop asking. There’s a constant whirling of questions in your mind: ‘What if I tried…?’ ‘How can I…?’ ‘What… Read more »What to do when you can’t think what to ask
I store my I Ching readings on my computer; I have done for many years. It makes them easier to review, both because my handwriting’s in the ‘inebriated spider meanderings’ class, and because of the wonders of search. “Didn’t I receive this hexagram before when I was trying to work… Read more »Software for an I Ching journal
Consistently the most popular topic for questions to the I Ching is romantic relationships. Blend equal quantities of passionate desire, wild hope and utter bafflement, and you get questions for an oracle – lots of questions. But it’s especially valuable to divine about all those other relationships: friendships, working relationships… Read more »Asking about all the other relationships
I was just reading this post by Hollis Polk, ‘Does synchronicity have a structure?’ She’s just experienced a truly uncanny sequence of synchronicities, all in support of her new teleclass. They leave her wondering, “I’d like to believe that it was my clear intention to do this class for free, and… Read more »Experiencing synchronicity
