Hilary Barrett, I Ching

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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 [...]