Hilary Barrett, I Ching

Archive for September, 2006

Yi and personal power

Saturday, September 30th, 2006

Excerpts from the I Ching Community:
Autumn:
‘I asked the I-ching, “Who do we speak to when we divine?”
34 unchanging.’
(Hexagram 34 is Great Vigour, very much an image of personal power.)
And on a separate thread…
Bruce:
‘Can the Yijing cause you to lose your personal power? Can the Yi cause more harm than good, specifically to those [...]

More I Ching art

Saturday, September 30th, 2006

Here are some images from an exhibition of abstract I-Ching-inspired art by Gineen Cooper.

Poetry of Nigel Richmond

Wednesday, September 27th, 2006

Beth Richmond has posted to the I Ching Community about Nigel Richmond’s poetry: she has a limited number of copies of his poetry pamphlets - Glimpses of the Obvious , Pigs and Fishes, and The Love of Fu Hsi . She is very generously making these available to anyone who’d like them. You [...]

A week of questions

Friday, September 22nd, 2006

There was one question I asked Cesca Diebschlag (yes, the identity of the ‘mystery interviewee’ is revealed!) during our interview that she particularly liked -
‘Why should anyone take the trouble to learn to consult the I Ching, or to get involved with it at all?’
She answered with an example of how a reading became [...]

Log in now for your discount

Wednesday, September 20th, 2006

4 steps to £10 off the I Ching Course

Sign up for free as a Friend
Log in with your new username and password
Pick up your discount coupon from the members’ area…
… and apply it before 30th September to claim your discount

Or if you’re already a Friend, just go straight to the members’ area to get [...]

Reading space

Monday, September 18th, 2006

When I interviewed _____ (that ‘mystery interviewee’!) for the upcoming audio sale, she said something about the sacred space of a reading that got me thinking. I’ve just added some excerpts from our conversation, including the part where we talk about the ‘space’ of a reading, to the audio sale preview page, to give [...]

Reducing the many

Sunday, September 17th, 2006

‘At the centre of the earth is a mountain. Integrity.
The noble one thus reduces the many to increase the few,
He weighs things up to balance out their distribution.’
According to Wilhelm, the noble one is involved in the redistribution of wealth, but it’s always seemed to me that there is more to it than that.
I [...]