Hilary Barrett, I Ching

I’ve started re-reading Bede Griffiths, Return to the Centre, a wonderful book I first attempted to understand when I was 16. This time through, I have help.
I think of hexagram 29, the Repeating Chasm, as a dark place of bottomless depths. Yi talks of ‘holding fast your heart’ here, I think, because there is nothing [...]

Believe me – Harmen’s Dagboek
A good, thought-provoking post from Harmen. Basically he’s pointing out that Yijing readings work within a framework of personal beliefs. This is true of what methods you know and find significant (nuclear hexagrams or not, for instance). I think it can also be true of the meanings you attribute to hexagrams, [...]

Nelson emailed me after the last newsletter to say he’d been getting a lot of readings around Hexagram 50. So here are some thoughts on what’s going on in the Vessel, which I hope might help with a variety of readings.
The name of Hexagram 50 is ding: the sacred vessel, a massive food container of [...]

Just another little personal reading story.
Back on 2nd Feb, I ordered the latest Glyphius software from James Brausch. I wasn’t sure whether or not to go ahead and buy, but when I asked Yi about the effect of using it I received Hexagram 2, line 2.
‘Straight, square, great.
No repeating, nothing that does not bring harvest.’
(There [...]

The more I look into the King Wen sequence, the more depths I discover. Take the two hexagrams that describe grand, historic events of legendary proportions: 49, Radical Change, and 55, Abundance. Hexagram 49 describes the time of revolution, when the Zhou people overthrew the Shang. And hexagram 55 has been identified with a key [...]

I’ve just been reading this tale of woe about self-help that didn’t help. A weight-loss group where people didn’t lose weight; a self-development seminar where people didn’t emerge particularly developed. It’s not that there was anything wrong with the message or the method used in either of these places. It obviously worked wonders for some [...]

Someone should make a collection of Yi’s many and various ways of saying, ‘Get a grip.’
My site needs redesigning – so you can find what you’re looking for more easily, so I can add more things for sale and you can find those, too, and so on. I’ve decided that this time, I’ll employ a [...]