Hilary Barrett, I Ching

Hexagram 40 is Release: untying knots, removing artificial restraints and compulsions, and restoring complete, natural freedom of movement. Its moving lines talk about different kinds of captivity and release: simple ‘mistake’ at the first line, the release of a firm grip at the fourth, release from a looming, ominous presence in the sixth. The second [...]

Learnoutloud.com have a free audio download of the month, and currently this is Legge’s 1891 (or was it 1887?) translation of the Tao Te Ching. You have to sign up for a free membership to download it, but that’s all – no obligation to receive emails.

Browsing blogs, it’s remarkable how many people mention the I Ching as a regular part of their lives. For instance, have a look at the technorati search results for ‘I Ching’. You’ll need to skip over a few that just have the words ‘I’ and ‘Ching’ in the post, but on page 2 or so [...]

Not for the first time, someone’s written to ask me what it means that there’s ‘advantage in the southwest’ for her. So here’s a summary of one thing it means, at least – ‘The southwest’ in Yijing-language doesn’t usually mean literally the southwest. There can be the occasional exception, of course, as for instance if [...]

It’s a pervasive character, this I Ching – its way of thinking gets everywhere. Nowadays I find that given a book and a pencil, I’ll be jotting hexagrams in the margins to remind myself of the main ideas. Here’s one that brings out the pencil – the Fourth Insight from James Redfield’s Celestine Prophecy: “The [...]

One of the most popular links I ever posted was Eric Sewert’s ‘Way of Heaven’ site for calculating birth hexagrams. If you’re one of the people who emailed me to ask where it had gone – it’s moved to www.Hall-Of-Man.com.

I posted about hexagram 15, especially line 3. I hadn’t even noticed that Stephen Karcher had posted a reading of his own with the exact same hexagram and line. These grey hamsters get everywhere. There’s also a discussion about Stephen’s reading at the Great Vessel forum.