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Creating peace through music

Creating peace through music

Question:

“What advice can be offered for more effectively providing meditative peace and healing through playing Shakuhachi flute music?”

Answer: Great Vigour in Flow.

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A Yeeky thing I mentioned during this reading: the idea of a dabagua, or ‘big trigram’ hexagram. If you take the trigram dui, lake…

…and double each of its lines individually, in turn – from yang, yang, yin to yang+yang, yang+yang, yin+yin – then you have Hexagram 34:

In each hexagram formed this way – I mentioned this once before when I was writing about Hexagram 33 – it can help to think of it as a ‘giant trigram’ – and a giant lake seemed especially apt for a musician.

You can find Ron’s music at https://www.bracalemusic.com.

Alberto Ramon, ‘Conversations with the I Ching’

Alberto Ramon, ‘Conversations with the I Ching’

Alberto Ramon has been developing his approach to Yijing readings for many years now, and recently published a new book: Conversations with the I Ching. Its subtitle: ‘An intuitive approach to understanding the answers, with 85 explained readings.’ I’m finding it a worthwhile read. What I like about this book The Yi is big. It has plenty of… Continue Reading

Gradually nearing the high plateau

Gradually nearing the high plateau
This entry is part 8 of 9 in the series Two-line relationships

Hexagram 53, Gradual Progress, has two lines about the high plateau: ‘The wild geese gradually progress to the high plateau.The husband marches out and does not return,The wife is pregnant, but does not raise the child.Pitfall.Fruitful to resist robbers.’ Hexagram 53, line 3 ‘Wild geese gradually progress to the high plateau.Their feathers can be used… Continue Reading

A tied-up bag

A tied-up bag

Question: ‘What do I need to know as I prepare to finish this book and send it out into the world?’ Answer: Hexagram 2, Earth, changing at lines 4 and 6 to 35, Advancing: changing to As Kat and I discussed this one in this latest podcast episode, we mentioned… …and also the ancient form… Continue Reading

How far down the rabbit hole…?

How far down the rabbit hole…?

On the one hand… … it makes me unhappy to hear that someone isn’t consulting the Yijing because they ‘don’t have time’. This is distressing and unnecessary. You can connect to a reading intuitively in a matter of minutes, have that unmistakable sense of being spoken to, and develop an understanding you can use. Then… Continue Reading

Rejecting the standard

Rejecting the standard

There are two lines in Hexagram 27, Nourishment, that refer to ‘rejecting the standard’: ‘Unbalanced nourishment.Rejecting the standard, looking to the hill-top for nourishment.Setting out to bring order – pitfall.’ Hexagram 27, line 2 ‘Rejecting the standard,Dwelling here with constancy: good fortune.Cannot cross the great river.’ Hexagram 27, line 5 So what are ‘standards’, and… Continue Reading

A new source of income

A new source of income

This episode of the podcast could also be entitled ‘light dawns in the end,’ as it took a while for me to join all the dots between the querent’s situation and the reading. It’s a great example of how Yi talks to the whole person, though, as well as answering the question. Mukul asked, ‘What… Continue Reading

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