Hilary Barrett, I Ching

Archive for July, 2006

Hexagram 10 and wingless chickens

Tuesday, July 18th, 2006

‘Heaven above, lake below. Treading.
The noble one differentiates above and below,
And sets right the purpose of the ordinary people.’
The Image of Hexagram 10 is really not the easiest one to relate to. It’s more abstract than most, maybe seeming rather ‘dry’. The lake sparkles below heaven… does the junzi draw nothing more from this [...]

Hexagram 3 and Lateral Growth

Sunday, July 16th, 2006

Here’s another ‘non-Yi’ post I came across that strikes me as helpful in understanding a hexagram. This one from Scott Young, about lateral growth. He differentiates between this and vertical, directed growth:
‘Opportunity is critical for lateral growth. With vertical growth, you are already aware of what you aim and motivation is. The very essence [...]

Destiny, divination and the I Ching

Friday, July 14th, 2006

Here’s the article by David Cornfield with this intriguing title. It raises a lot of questions I don’t have the answers to.
The practice of divination, in any of its myriad forms, assumes there is a
particular way the world is meant to unfold, that there are forces that promote the
[...]

Dream Tending

Wednesday, July 12th, 2006

‘Dream tending’ has some excellent free articles on dream work - which is never far removed from oracle work. Doesn’t this sound familiar?
It is my belief that in the correspondence between dimensions a personexperiences the sensation of “healing.” For example, when a person “understands” adream, regardless of the system of understanding, there is a [...]

Hexagram 43 and decision

Friday, July 7th, 2006

Here is a good, blunt article that explains why You Cannot Have It All: because choice you make for something is by implication a choice against something else.
I linked to this article because it’s a clear statement of something we need to be aware of whenever Hexagram 43 shows up. (OK, it’s a clear [...]

One clasp of the hands

Wednesday, July 5th, 2006

Naturally, lately, I’ve wanted to ask the oracle about my Mum’s prognosis. I’ve done so a couple of times, and on each occasion I’ve received an unchanging hexagram that gave me a very straight, short-term answer.
But although there are times when uncertainty and the need to know just overwhelms everything else, I do know [...]