Hilary Barrett, I Ching

How Ancient China came to America: the I Ching as Bible
An article by Dana Baker Wilde discussing attitudes to the I Ching in America. It includes a potted history of Western religious/moral thought, and sets people’s enduring respect for the I Ching in this context. There are some sample readings towards the end of the [...]

Yi has been giving me hexagram 2 as relating hexagram for three weeks in succession now - ever since I asked what Mum’s ‘power’ was, and received 2 with no changing lines. (Prior to that, I’d asked why she kept showing up in my dreams with work for me to do, and received 44 moving [...]

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Many, many people start consulting the oracle when they have one overwhelming question in their lives - usually a relationship issue. The questions nag at their waking awareness, linger in their dreams, and result in truly obsessive questioning of the oracle. The same questions are asked again and again in a frantic search for certainty; [...]

At the heart of every hexagram is its ‘nuclear hexagram’. It’s made up of its inner lines: 234 for its lower trigram, 345 for the upper. So for instance if your original hexagram is 18, Corruption -

- then by taking its lines 234,345 you uncover the nuclear hexagram 54, the Marrying Maiden:

Looking at nuclear hexagrams [...]

‘Squidoo’ is a community site; its members maintain ‘lenses’ - pages that focus in on the best resources for a specific topic. Until a few days ago, people searching there for ‘I Ching’ would’ve found nothing at all. I’ve just created an ‘I Ching lens‘. Please visit! And if you have time, please scroll to [...]

If you consult the Yijing with yarrow stalks, or with another method (like beads) that has the same odds, then you’ll find that 2, the Receptive, often turns up as relating hexagram. This is because with yarrow odds, yang lines in the primary hexagram are more likely to change than yin ones - and so [...]