Hilary Barrett, I Ching

The I Ching is the Book of Change. So when there is a change I very much want to make, but somehow haven’t managed yet, why not call on the oracle’s help?
The most obvious way to do this is to ask directly ‘How to…?’ - and I’ve discovered many good strategies with ‘how to’ [...]

Unusual techniques for applying I Ching hexagrams describes a kinaesthetic approach to understanding both trigrams and hexagrams:
“You can hold any hexagram as a ’shape’ in your body by holding or releasing tension in various parts of your torso”
Interesting!

This is the line Wilhelm translates as,
“If one is not extremely careful,
Somebody may come up from behind and strike him.
Misfortune.”
So reading it this way, the line would mean that you should ‘overstep the mark’ in taking care - that you should be extraordinarily defensive, constantly on guard, and never too adventurous.
I don’t think this [...]

In the introduction to The Original I Ching Oracle by Ritsema and Sabbadini, I found an image for an I Ching reading that I wish I’d thought of for myself: an hourglass.
‘In the top half of the hourglass all the complexity and confusion of our existential situation gets narrowed down to a very pointed, [...]

“When you get a figure, a hexagram, what it really is is like a mask. And you put it on and move and dance in that spirit and something happens: you experience significance.”
This is from Stephen Karcher’s radio interview with Caroline Casey on her Visionary Activist Show. (Visit that page for introduction and archives, [...]

The Funeral of the Real » I Ching and the Logos
Here’s an unusual I Ching reading, interpreted with great creative insight from an unfamiliar perspective. The question is “What is the I Ching?”, the answer Hexagram 44 moving at lines 3 and 4 to Hexagram 20. So Joe Chip notices that the trigram for [...]

Here’s a nice coincidence. Elvira emails me and asks,
“What is the meaning of Hexagram 38 in daily life?”
And over at GreatVessel there is a new article on Hexagram 38 (Opposition/ Diverging) entitled The Shaman of the Shadows - remarkable work that needs reading and re-reading slowly, and with especially good insights into the lines.
So [...]