Hilary Barrett, I Ching

Archive for October, 2005

Chaotic Patterns in Divination

Thursday, October 13th, 2005

Tim Boucher’s ‘Pop Occulture’ blog is a real find. Here -
Pop Occulture » Chaotic Patterns in Divination
- he writes about the workings of divination. The gist is that divination works through exposing us to chaotic patterns - like staring into the fire does. These sideline our conscious minds, shunt us out of the well-worn grooves [...]

I Ching Community: identifying demons

Sunday, October 9th, 2005

I Ching Community Discussion Forum: Who is “the Devil” in this cast?
Ole’s story of a series of readings, giving a very good, practical demonstration of how to use line pathways (along with gut feeling) to go beyond surface appearances, and also how to use supplemental questions.

Without coins or stalks II

Saturday, October 8th, 2005

StevePavlina.com Podcast #003 - Consulting Your Intuition
Steve Pavlina’s ‘Personal development for smart people’ blog is always a worthwhile read: lucid, intelligent and honest. Recently he’s started doing podcasts - and these, too, are several cuts above the average. (And helped along by the fact that he’s a professional speaker, and utterly cured of the ‘um-er [...]

Without coins or yarrow

Friday, October 7th, 2005

Someone asked:
“How do I go about developing the talent to access this wisdom faculty without using coins, yarrow stalks, computers and so on?”
It’s an extremely good question, and not one I truly know the answer to, as it’s not a talent I’ve developed.
However, I do think that such an ability can grow through years of [...]

Upgrade successful

Friday, October 7th, 2005

As far as I know (touching wood), everything works.
I needed to upgrade so I could install a killer anti-spam plugin, so there will be rather less in the blog’s comments about mortgages and casinos. Please let me know if you have any trouble posting your own comments.

Upgrade underway

Wednesday, October 5th, 2005

Hi,
I’m just upgrading/ trying to upgrade this blog to the latest version of Wordpress (the nice software that runs it). If you get weird error messages etc, I’ve done something wrong. I will get it working eventually.

New information on Hexagram 46

Sunday, October 2nd, 2005

The ‘sheng’ sacrifice at Qi Shan
Harmen’s back!
And as always, his research provides information you really have to consider in readings. This time he’s exploring sheng, Hexagram 46. The core divinatory meaning of sheng is (I think) to put in the effort to climb step by step towards a goal. It means ‘pushing upward’ confidently, not [...]