Hilary Barrett, I Ching

I Ching – InterTao Ely Britto has created an English version of her I Ching website. It’s an excellent, very clear account of how to approach the I Ching through the traditional Chinese system of trigrams and line relationships.

A novel online reading – an I Ching clock that tells the Time. When I tried it, it gave me the hexagram I should be interpreting for a client right now. Good point.

GreenOwl wrote:

“Ideally you need to allow a good half hour to talk with (or rather listen to) your querent and arrive at the right question for them.”

Any chance you could do a post (y’know, sometime) that walks through an example of that process? Or, if you’ve already written about it and I’m forgetting, just point in the right direction. Thanks!

That’s tricky, as I promise clients complete confidentiality – no discussion of their situation, question or answer, even anonymously. So I can’t go through a specific real-life example. But I can talk about general experiences that I’ve had with a few hundred customers – why not?

On the ‘abundance’ theme still – I promise to get back to Yi in the next post – The Architecture of All Abundance by Lenedra J Carroll £2.60 from Cygnus Books, who send me a beautiful free magazine every month. Hopefully I can send them some website visitors in return.

The name of Hexagram 14 is Great Possession, and the character for ‘possessing’ also means ‘offering’ – suggesting that the two ideas are not so far apart as they might seem.

Interpreting this one, I’m often reminded of Molière’s play, The Miser. (Or was this in Plautus’s original, The Pot of Gold?) The miser has kept a pot of gold buried in his garden for years, sneaking off to gloat over it when no-one’s looking. Of course one day someone is looking, and the hoard is stolen, and he bewails his fate. Some witty character offers the consolation that he still has a dank hole in the ground to gaze down, so what has he really lost?

I came across this lovely article – The Abundance Site: Spending as a prayer? – and thought at once of Hexagram 14, Great Possession. The character ‘possess’, which also just means ‘there is’, shows an outstretched hand, holding meat. Owning? Offering? Is there a difference? I think the small ritual suggested at the Abundance Site [...]

Susan asked Yi why her gas stove was making a clicking noise. Yi said 50, line 2, and a whole bunch of us who should have known better said no, the stove wasn’t out of fuel. It was. So now we all come back to it with the benefit of hindsight, courtesy of this thread [...]