Hilary Barrett, I Ching

I owe you a blog post, so I asked Yi what to write about. And the oracle suggests 39.3 changing to Hexagram 8: difficulty and turnaround through seeking union. This, I realised, was all about The Redesign. I’m getting my site redesigned. This – I know from the last time I undertook it, too many [...]

Here’s another neat class idea from Misha Goussev: ‘The Tao of Dow, East Asian wisdom in business’, aka ‘Taoism, Change and Decision Making’. There are ten Monday classes, taught via Yahoo group and email, three on Taoism in general and the remainder on the I Ching and decision-making. They run from April 2nd to June [...]

Last weekend, I spent another few days clearing and sorting at Mum’s house, and once again found myself reminded of her huge productivity. I wrote about this once before: I’d asked Yi what Mum’s power was, and it answered with Hexagram 2, unchanging. So I thought about Mum, and since on this visit I was [...]

Misha Goussev is running a weekend workshop at the California Institute for Human Science next weekend (March 30th – April 1st). The title is ‘Wisdom and Intuition in Decision Making: navigating the modern business environment with the ancient Book of Change’, and the cost is $256 for members of the public. Here’s an excerpt from [...]

Unless you’ve lived under a rock for the past few months, you’ve probably heard of the Secret, and maybe gathered that it’s a creatively-marketed way of presenting the ‘Law of Attraction’. The basic idea is that whereas ‘common sense’ says that stuff happens to us, and that makes us feel certain ways and believe certain [...]

Over the weekend, I found myself with a bit of a communication problem. The details aren’t important: I wanted to help and encourage someone to do something he was finding hard. I tried a few different approaches, succeeded only in being annoying, and finally asked Yi for advice on how I could help. Yi gave [...]

I just came across this poem by Gregory Luce, who’s seeing hexagram 3 in the clouds.