Hilary Barrett, I Ching

The Useless Tree: Friday I Ching: Bush Will Rebound
Sam Crane asked Yi how Bush should handle whatever the fallout may be from the latest political scandals, and received 16 changing to 24. He’s interpreting this less as what Bush needs to do, more as how things will work out for him. I’d be more [...]

Yijing Dao - Ruling lines
Steve Marshall has updated his ‘ruling lines’ page with many more examples than before. It’s worth taking the time really to look at them all.
A question he doesn’t answer (Steve?) is what difference it makes when one of the changing lines you receive is a ruler. I find that with [...]

Not long ago, I read an excerpt from a 1937 study of the Azande people of sub-Saharan Africa and their use of divination. It explained that these people built substantial granaries of wood and clay, held safely clear of the ground by wooden supports. And sometimes those wooden supports would collapse, and sometimes this [...]

Pointing To The Moon: Let the Truth Inform Action
Browsing to this page on one of the blogs I regularly visit, it just strikes me that - as well as being powerful advice - this reads as something of a commentary on hexagrams 55 to 56.
The truth informing action is like the trigrams of Hexagram [...]

As you can tell from the title of Freeman’s latest blog post -
Chameleon Book Chronicles: A Truly Awful Book?
- he’s feeling glum about low sales of his I Ching translation. Actually, we should all feel glum about low sales of his book, as it’s remarkably good one. I wrote about it once here, [...]

If you’ve studied Stephen Karcher’s Total I Ching or listened to How to make Change a working part of your life, you’ll be familiar with the idea that the I Ching’s hexagrams come in Pairs, and that these Pairs are units of meaning in themselves. If you receive Hexagram 6, Dispute, in an answer, [...]

I Ching Community Discussion Forum: High Carb Diet Explains Mystery of Zhouyi!
Read and learn!
(If you have the energy.)