Hilary Barrett, I Ching

Archive for February, 2007

Making use of seeing the great person

Saturday, February 3rd, 2007

I love reading new commentaries on hexagrams - even when the author is unaware even of the existence of the hexagram his work illuminates.
This time the hexagram is 46: Pushing Upward, a figure of aspiration and steady, step-by-step progress towards a goal. The article is by Norman Barlow, and entitled ‘How to Discover your Purpose [...]

Legal warning!

Saturday, February 3rd, 2007

Diviners everywhere, beware. One of my Adwords ads for the I Ching course was just suspended by Google.
The ad reads:
“I Ching Home Study Course
Develop confidence in your own
understanding of the oracle”
Ad Status: Suspended - Pending Revision
SUGGESTIONS:
-> Ad Content: Please remove the following trademark from your
ad: “Oracle”.

The mind boggles.

Memorising the I Ching

Thursday, February 1st, 2007

There’s a splendid series of threads at the I Ching Community entitled ‘Memorising the I Ching’. Rosada and everyone who pitches in are travelling through hexagram by hexagram, describing what’s memorable about each line. Here’s a list of the threads so far; they’ve got as far as Hexagram 19.
Why would you want to memorise the [...]

How to deepen

Thursday, February 1st, 2007

From Margie:
“Maybe this question is quite banal - but what I want to know is how to actually deepen my practice and my understanding of the I Ching.
Is there a special procedure that I should follow to do this, or should it be accompanied by a special meditation……?”
No, this is not a banal question [...]