A couple of days ago, I recommended the Divine Purpose Unveiled course, and all kinds of debate ensued. Some of that was about the very idea of having a ‘divine purpose’ at all, and whether it’s remotely helpful. Is it good to believe that we have a specific personal contribution… Read more »Yi on life purpose
I was pretty much bowled over a couple of days ago when a publishing company – a real one that does real, paper books and pays authors – contacted me to ask if I’d be interested in doing an I Ching book. Would I?! Of course I would. At least…… Read more »No fears
I’m enjoying reading Stephen Field’s Ancient Chinese Divination, especially the insight into the early understanding of qi and how it flows. I’m just reading his description of Form School fengshui. While its earliest written description is (in Yijing terms) relatively young (the Tang dynasty Book of Burial), the fundamental idea… Read more »Trigram topography?
Hexagram 39 is called ‘Difficulties’ or ‘Limping’. It describes the experience of a perpetual uphill struggle: just one thing after another, grinding on and on, battling with handicaps or with the elements or with an unforgivingly inhospitable world… …and it also describes the moment when you turn this around. I’ve… Read more »Turnaround in Hexagram 39
Yesterday some Change Circle members went on a remarkable inner journey, visiting a Lake and a Mountain, receiving some unexpected gifts. (Thank you, Kevin, who guided the guided imagery.) Change Circle members can access the recording from our home page; if you’d like to join us for future explorations, you… Read more »Lake reflections
Cutting through hexagram 23 – Harmen’s Dagboek. One of those splendidly detailed articles from Harmen I need to read over and over again. One thing that leaps to the eye: he mentions that one component of the hexagram name (as it appears in the received text) is itself used as… Read more »Harmen cuts through Hexagram 23
I first read this story in Women Who Run with the Wolves, and it was one of those ‘scribbling hexagrams in the margins’ moments for me. You can read a longer version of the tale here, but this is the core of it: Vassilissa was a beautiful young girl who… Read more »Fire inside and outside
