Hilary Barrett, I Ching

Ian wrote to ask me:
“How can an English-speaking science graduate link to I Ching?”
Nice question, thanks!
The ‘English-speaking’ part is relatively easy: use a couple of distinctively different, good translations. Don’t be misled by the preoccupations of mad natural linguists (like this one) into believing you have to get into ancient Chinese to connect with [...]

Someone wrote to ask what I think of the Wilhelm/Baynes translation.
I have mixed feelings about it. For a lot of people, I know, asking ‘what do you think of Wilhelm/Baynes?’ is much the same as asking, ‘What do you think of the Bible?’ This is the edition the great majority of Yi-users grew up [...]

There are some beautiful new papers at Denis Mair’s Yijing Poetics site. I’m currently engrossed in ‘Maybe a daisy chain’, a new story woven from the Sequence of hexagrams. What I find most remarkable - and liberating - about this is how utterly different it is from the story I tell myself from the [...]

For some weeks now, there’s been a notice up on my readings order page saying ‘I’m away from work because of family health problems.’ I’m sorry to say that I still am. It’s my Mum who’s unwell: she was in hospital when I first put the notice up; then she improved somewhat and came [...]

Imagine for a moment that you are a sage, and I have a question for you:
“Will I ever be at the summit of Everest?”
I’d guess that the first words out of your mouth are a question - or several:
“Well, do you want to climb Everest?”
“Have you made any plans to? Done any training? Bought [...]

Jesed, aka Rodrigo - source of many fascinating posts at the I Ching Community - has his own blog, ‘Changes on political affairs‘. In it he presents readings about modern national and international politics, using methods that are not widely known. He doesn’t hedge his answers or beat about any bushes: each reading contains [...]

At about.com I just came across a collection of articles offering O’Shea’s reading of the I Ching.
The overall orientation is strangely gloomy - since when is Hexagram 59 all about dissipation and aimlessness, and 37 about ‘bottled and stifled ambition and development’? Hm. And some of his assertions are wrong (like saying Confucius wrote [...]