Comments on: Coming soon…

By: Caro Eardley

Caro Eardley — Tue, 14 Jun 2005 13:18:02 +0000

Questions for Women & I seminar
I would like to read discussion of/know more about:
1 the correct interpretation of the Receptive – often (I believe misleadingly) referred to as the Passive (ie Haxagram 2).
2 How a woman should interpret the reading when it seems to specifically mention a father/son relationship etc

Looking forward to hearing more about this…
Caro

By: Nelson

Nelson — Thu, 09 Jun 2005 17:29:33 +0000

One question I would like to see asked is
about the question of evil spirits. What are they
and how do they influence events – how can
they be overcome.
Nelson

By: victor

victor — Thu, 09 Jun 2005 02:11:35 +0000

Reality consists of the place of origination (masculine; Tao; 1 of the I Ching) and the place of perfect manifestation (feminine; Teh; 2 of the I Ching). What does the I Ching say when 2 takes the place of 1?

By: Togan Muftuoglu

Togan Muftuoglu — Sat, 04 Jun 2005 14:51:38 +0000

Hilary says
“Well, I want to get her talking about yin and yang (female and male, etcâ€¦), to begin with.”

If you think Yin/Yang are opposites, just like the Greek thought of polarities, I think you are heading the wrong direction. Nothing is totally Yin nor totally Yang.

OPPOSITION Everything has two opposite aspects. Yin & Yang struggle with and control each other.

INTER-DEPENDENCE Yin & Yang define each other and therefore one cannot exist without the other. (If there is no down, which way is up?)

MUTUAL CONSUMPTION & SUPPORT Yin & Yang each give of themselves to nourish the other.

INTER-TRANSFORMATION YIn can become Yang and Yang can become Yin. In fact, this is inevitable if the growth of one or the other is uncontrolled.

INFINITE SUBDIVISIBLITY There is always a bit of one in the other. Anything can be subdivided again and again.

Fixed categorization would violate the laws of Yin & Yang and Yin & Yang are so entwined that one cannot exist without the other. They are irrevocably two parts of a whole.

To understand Yin/Yang the following chapters of Tao Teh Ching might help: 2,22,26,28

By: Kate

Kate — Sat, 04 Jun 2005 14:26:53 +0000

Can’t wait for elucidation on Hexagram 44… it has always troubled me in the Baynes edition. I think it’s important to recognize the variety of feminine and masculine archetypes which play out in various energies of life/the Ching and not be so limited as to the lens of ‘feminism’, which never quite escapes needing to be redefined by every new generation of women since it’s inception. The larger concepts of the Feminine however, the Great Mother, the Lover, Kali, the High Priestess, the Goddess, the Shekinah, etc…. these never seem to need revision. Food for thought.

By: Hilary

Hilary — Sat, 04 Jun 2005 11:02:04 +0000

Hi Ed,
Thanks for all your comments, here and on the hexagram 12/ ‘non people’ page. I really hope you will come to this webinar, as you have pinpointed exactly the issues we need to deal with: how to divine about a modern world with a book that apparently espouses very outdated views of gender roles?

I think that what Dr Pearson has to say about the translation of Hexagram 44 and the identity of the ‘powerful woman’ who sent later commentators into such a tailspin, and indeed about the original nature of yin and yang, will be a real eye-opener.

By: Ed Graham

Ed Graham — Sat, 04 Jun 2005 02:06:56 +0000

2 questions for the webinar: Is it legitimate to change the negative tone of hexagram 44 to a positive one in feminist-leaning versions of the I Ching?

Is it wrong for the I Ching to praise women who accord with traditional female roles as in hexagram 37 and does this demean women?

By: Nelson

Nelson — Sat, 04 Jun 2005 01:07:09 +0000

Well I have asked and received the hexagram
#10 twice in the last two days.
The questions were different.
So this is my call on this:
The tiger may protect me from what
is called the female demons on the north – south
axis –
The tiger is the spirit of one of my ancestors -
I believe.
If or when a male does harmful things (in my case
create turmoil in her life when it was quiet
and settled)
to a righteous female then you really have
to watch out.
Without getting really personal this is what
happened to me.
Things are a lot better though it is still a dangerous
situation.
Nelson