Hilary Barrett, I Ching

There’s a new I Ching diviner on the block - actually, a very experienced one who’s just made a home on the web, at Ichingconsultation.com. I browsed to the ‘articles’ page and especially enjoyed the one on Hexagrams 37 and 38. Very good thoughts on pairs, trigrams, ruling lines and more. I look forward [...]

It occurs to me that back in an agrarian society, every ordinary activity would have its ritual place in the bigger scheme of things. Ploughing, sowing, harvesting, storing and ripening - these things have so much latent meaning that we still use them as part of our daily language even now. (Projects ‘break new [...]

Steve Marshall has written an article on Nigel Richmond and the I Ching, and includes with it pdf copies of Richmond’s two I Ching books. One of them is very hard to find, the other is near-enough impossible, and here they both are for us to download, for free. Lucky us. Thanks, Steve!
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The I Ching Community has been a bit quiet of late, since I had to turn off email notification to stop it frying the server (see this page). But here is some good advice from Yi about a difficult, ‘entangling’ experience:I Ching Community Discussion Forum: A difficult situation

The week before last, I was itching to get started on something, and Yi told me to ‘strip away’ and to have no direction to go. And I realised that I could go anywhere.
Then last week, with far more ideas and possibilities in mind than I’d dreamt possible, Yi told me to contain myself [...]

“The Vessel contains something real.
My companion is afflicted,
Cannot approach me.
Good fortune.”
I’ve experienced this line several times, but always found it hard to grasp why it could mean good fortune. It describes those times when you have something good within you, some realisation, joy or purpose - something real - but your close companion is [...]

I found this by chance (yes, I know) in a charity shop yesterday, and just finished it. So now I need to read it again! It is an extraordinary book, full of rich imagery and wisdom, and I can’t imagine why I hadn’t come across it before. The ‘Temple of a Thousand Doors’ (with [...]