Hilary Barrett, I Ching

Archive for April, 2007

Affirmations book sale ending

Sunday, April 15th, 2007

There’s just a day or so to go before the special Clarity-only two-thirds discount expires on Jennifer Shepherd’s
Why Most Affirmations Fail, and The Four Building Blocks of Successful Affirmations. Just to remind you - this page will disappear on or after the 17th.
[Edit: it's disappeared now the sale's finished. But you can still get the [...]

A hexagram 47 experience

Friday, April 13th, 2007

An I Ching course customer who’s travelling abroad just emailed me this experience of his, and was kind enough to give me permission to share. It’s a very good example of how having Yi’s words in mind at the crucial moment can make a huge difference. And I also think it’s a perfect illustration of [...]

In Retreat

Saturday, April 7th, 2007

I’m writing this perched awkwardly on the end of my bed, with the computer balanced on a lap tray. How come? Let me explain.
My younger brother David has Down’s Syndrome, and since Mum died last summer I’m his surviving family. Most of the time he lives in a small family-type home in Somerset, where he’s [...]

I Ching talk in Vancouver

Saturday, April 7th, 2007

Greg Whincup, author of Rediscovering the I Ching, is giving a talk on the I Ching at Vancouver Art Gallery, on April 16th. Details here.

The act of divination

Friday, April 6th, 2007

Here and here are two posts from Kevin at Great Vessel, about the act of divination with Yi.
Both make for good reading, and I find they strike chords with me. I think that when Kevin talks of using the template of a reading to ‘make a congruence between ourselves and the moment in which we [...]

Making readings real

Monday, April 2nd, 2007

I’m making this post because there’s an ebook I want to recommend to you. It’s not an I Ching book as such - in fact, it doesn’t mention divination from one end to the other, so what’s got into me? Give me a minute or two, and I’ll explain. (And then I’ll tell you [...]