Hilary Barrett, I Ching

Following on from this article about the sequence of trigrams through 10 and 11, here’s another place where looking at the trigrams casts light on the story behind the sequence: from Hexagram 12 to 13.
Hexagram 12 is Obstruction and negation: communication is completely blocked; everything has ground to a halt; no great things are [...]

Just a small example of the kind of day-to-day help Yi provides for the asking. Not earth-shattering, just solid common sense (which, as my Mum’s Mum used to say, isn’t common) and good advice.

I Ching Community Discussion Forum: Hexagrams of sleeping and dreaming?
Peter asked,
“what hexagrams reflect processes of sleeping and dreaming?”
Some good - and interestingly different - suggestions are coming up. Do you dream in water, light or thunder?

…finally!
After more hours than I care to count spent fighting the editing program,
you can get the recording and transcript of ‘Journey Imagery in the Yijing’ here.
£7 for the download, plus £5 p&p&p&p (production, printing, postage and packing ) if you’d like it on CD-ROM as well.
However… you may not want to get it [...]

Mark McElroy, of tarottools.com, has kindly sent me the proofs of his upcoming book, I Ching for Beginners. And as beginners’ books go, it’s pretty good, with some useful, thought-provoking ways of approaching the hexagrams. I’ll review it later on its own merits - but first, I need to get this rant out of my system. Because Mark swells the growing numbers of ‘modernisers’ and ’simplifiers’ who carefully remove all the oracle’s imagery.

I Ching Community Discussion Forum: 14.1…negative or not?
‘No intercourse with what is harmful,
In no way at fault,
Hardship is thus not a mistake.’
or
‘Having no commerce with trouble.
To never be wrong
Is a hardship, but otherwise not a mistake.’
(Brad)
Or even
‘Not associating with violent bandits is wrong.
Hardships lead to being without fault.’
(tentative suggestion from Ewald)
- ??
Good discussion and [...]

The short version, in case you don’t have eight minutes to listen to the audio: we had an informal webinar sharing readings; it was a success; people enjoyed it. I’ll be running more of these, and they’ll still be free. And if you want to be sure of hearing about them in advance, make sure your email address is on the notification list by sending a blank email to gatherings at onlineClarity.co.uk. (Replace the ‘at’ with ‘@’ and miss out the spaces, of course.)

Click the ‘play’ button below for the longer version, where I talk about a couple of I Ching readings I did about this.