Hilary Barrett, I Ching

I found this quotation from Thomas Merton in a beautiful book by Lenedra J Carroll, The Architecture of All Abundance, which I bought from Cygnus Books: “There is a pervasive form of contemporary violence… activism and overwork. The rush and pressure of modern life are a form, perhaps the most common form, of its innate [...]

Ren Qizhen’s blog is called ‘Way of long life and long vision’, and ranges across subjects from tea to leadership to arthritis to I Ching readings. Here are the I Ching readings. There are many, they’re in depth and in their real-life context, interpreted with wisdom, and show the dialogue between Ren and the oracle [...]

Hexagram 24, Returning, is made up of the trigrams for thunder within the earth: Hexagram 25, Without Entanglement, has thunder below earth’s complement, heaven: Thunder is the vital spark, often human will and initiative. In a time of Returning, the wise old kings would ‘close the gates. Itinerant merchants did not travel, and the prince [...]

Weekly readings are a blessing and a joy. I’m finding that the richest rewards come from asking an open-ended question every weekend, and keeping this separate from my readings about whatever pressing issues have come up. Stephen Karcher wrote that the basic question we ask oracles – the question behind all the others – is [...]

Actually, my computer is dead. It died quite suddenly yesterday night – it was working, and then it wasn’t. End of computer, at least until the manufacturer fixes it. So I am not available for readings, or answering emails, or indeed writing posts and sending you a lamentably overdue newsletter. Sorry! If you are starved [...]

… in I Ching-land, that is… I will be releasing a very small, very low-priced, and I hope very useful beginners’ product at the end of this month. I’ll let you know what it is later, when I’ve fixed on a title . If you’re not a beginner, you may find the full-length, in-depth version [...]

Andreas Schöter presented a paper at last year’s International Conference on the Yijing and Contemporary Civilisation in Taiwan, which you can download from this page. (Follow the link to his report on the trip.) I’ve just done so, and hope to be able to understand parts of it.