Why you might want to review your I Ching readings
It’s not just me: lots of people let me know that they get further with their readings, understand them better, see more clearly, when they look at them for a second time.
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Use of the I Ching in the Analytic Setting
Use of the I Ching in the Analytic Setting An intelligent, in-depth article about the uses of the I Ching in Jungian analysis. There are good sections here on areas where the I Ching can help (relationships, depression, major decisions, and psychoanalytic training programmes!), and some clear examples of what… Read more »Use of the I Ching in the Analytic Setting
The banner of qian – from Harmen
Harmen’s gone back to the first character of the Zhouyi and offers the theory that it originally depicted a banner. As always with Harmen, very interesting reading! The banner of ‘qian’ – Harmen’s Dagboek
Using a reading template
Thanks to two correspondence course customers who have shared their experience with templates. You know who you are!
I find I get a lot further with my readings, learn more and change more as a result, when I use a template to record and study them. Here are a few ideas I hope you’ll find useful…
Useful elements in a basic reading template (and why you might want to try them)
Is this the Wrong Question?
Over at the I Ching Community, Demitra has shared some readings about vegetarianism and meat-eating: not just which is right for her, but what each means for humanity as a whole. Have a look at those readings here (they’re very interesting, and not what anyone from either side of the… Read more »Is this the Wrong Question?
Hexagram 36 as a Daoist strategy
Hexagram 36, Brightness Hiding or Brightness Injured, can certainly be a danger-signal in a reading: hide your light, risk of injury ahead. But it is also a postive strategy, as this Deng Ming-Dao quotation from Donna Woodka’s Changing Places blog shows. (One to subscribe to, I think.) It also shows… Read more »Hexagram 36 as a Daoist strategy
I Ching questions of ‘doing’ or ‘being’
I think that finding your question for the Yijing is the most important part of any reading. It sets the conditions for the whole conversation with the oracle: while it may or may not constrain what Yi can say, it certainly constrains what we can hear. The question is where we’re coming from: everything from casual assumptions to deep-seated beliefs will feed into it somehow. So it’s not just a matter of what we do or don’t want to hear, but also what we can conceive of asking.