Hilary Barrett, I Ching

Here’s a very, very useful online tool you may not have known about: an I Ching search from eclecticenergies.com . You can search for any word in the Wilhelm/Baynes translation, and get a neat list back of all the hexagrams and lines in which it appears.
If you are trying to piece together a half-remembered [...]

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‘Crossing the Great River’ - an excerpt from ‘Journey Imagery in the Yijing, with screen capture [...]

The desire for connection comes in lots of disguises, and various more-or-less-useful sublimations, but I think a whole lot of us are looking for ways to feel connected - coherent - at one with our lives. We need the way we spend our days to connect with who we are. We need our [...]

If you’re in the Missouri area, you may be able to catch a screening of Bob Dyer’s Oracle of the Turtle. It’s a short animated film based on his 64 I-Ching-inspired poems first published in 1978. If you see it - or know the poems - or know if the DVD’s available except at [...]

Just listen to this…
“Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting -
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.”
It’s from Mary Oliver’s poem, Wild Geese; you [...]

‘The wild geese gradually advance to the high plateau.
The husband marches out and does not return;
The wife is pregnant, but does not nurture the child;
Pitfall.
Harvest in resisting outlaws.’
Some thoughts based on a single experience of this line. (In other words, not ‘What It Means’, but something it can mean.)
I think it may have to [...]

Rosada at the I Ching Community casually dropped in a mention of this rendering of the Yi, which I’d never encountered before. It’s image-based and allusive, and for some reason has been made even more reduced and succinct than the original.