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Learn the I Ching

Welcome to Clarity’s I Ching learning resources!

Complete beginner?

If you’re completely new to all this, start here!

Beginners’ Course

This course takes you step-by-step through all you need to get started consulting the I Ching, with no need to click round searching for information. Get to know the I Ching and cast your first reading:

I Ching Chat

If you’d like some help with a reading, or just to discuss getting started with the oracle, you’re very welcome to book a chat.

I Ching articles for beginners

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How hard can it be?

A shared experience This post is prompted by a conversation I had recently with someone who’s relatively new to the …
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Playing with trigrams

I almost titled this post ‘working with trigrams’ – but the most useful, productive ways I know of to engage …
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Losses

This is another post about the differences between hexagrams: this time, Hexagrams 23, Stripping Away, and 41, Decreasing. Both are …

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More experienced?

If you’re not so new, welcome in! Here are some resources I hope you enjoy, intended to help deepen and strengthen your relationship with the oracle.

I Ching Foundations Course

If you’re comfortable casting a reading, but not always confident you can understand and really use the answer, then I’d recommend the Foundations Course. It covers all the essential interpretive know-how to take you from confusion to confidence:

Finding your real question

Connecting with trigrams and ancient imagery

Orienting yourself inside the framework of primary and relating hexagrams

Understanding multiple moving lines and how they work together

The Foundations Course is available separately or inside Change Circle membership.

I Ching classes

Once or twice a year, I run a class in Yijing Foundations or Reading for Others.

Visit the Class pages to learn more and sign up to be notified when of the next class!

Book reviews

More tools

Ways to consult the I Ching (How to use yarrow stalks, a different coin method, and consulting with a string of beads.)

Introducing some extra tools for I Ching interpretation. (There’s more depth in the Change Circle Library.)

Latest articles

My blog has a range of articles about individual hexagrams and lines, recurring images, trigrams, the Sequence, the experience of divination… here’s its index, and here are some recent posts:

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One step at a time

I’ve been looking lately at something so simple I almost missed it: how the ideas in the Yijing’s texts develop, …
Shock, bogs, and not knowing

Shock, bogs, and not knowing

The first thing you’re going to notice about this episode is the change of music. The new recording is Kimiko …
Why not use ever-flowing constancy?

Why not use ever-flowing constancy?

So far, I’ve introduced the idea of ever-flowing constancy, and explored six places where the Yi advises it. There is …
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Open to the new?

In this episode, Maggie and I dive into her reading about a possible new job: Hexagram 16, Enthusiasm, changing at …
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More ever-flowing constancy

Some more examples of ‘ever-flowing constancy’… Renewal: 22.3 ‘Beautiful, as if dipped in water.Ever-flowing constancy, good fortune.’ The imagery of …

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