Hilary Barrett, I Ching

Archive for June, 2007

Where did the images come from?

Friday, June 22nd, 2007

I’ve just been reading a post on Erin Pavlina’s blog about the metaphors that appear in her readings. Erin’s a talented natural psychic. She doesn’t use an oracle – she doesn’t even much approve of those of us who do. To read for someone, she tunes into her guides, and the first thing she receives [...]

Being the marrying maiden

Thursday, June 21st, 2007

Recent readings have given me a new application for Hexagram 54: the experience of relying on other people to work for me. The Marrying Maiden, poor little thing, moves into a world that’s several sizes too big for her, and has to feel her way into its relationships and possibilities. There’s working with my webdesigner, [...]

Hexagrams from Cesca

Tuesday, June 19th, 2007

Have a look at Cesca Diebschlag’s I Ching News blog. I’ve only just found my way there, and I’m delighted to discover excellent articles on Hexagrams 20, 22, 29, 5 and 16. I especially like what she has to say about 22, in the post entitled ‘Beautifying’.

No changing lines – no change?

Thursday, June 14th, 2007

Claire writes: “If a question is asked and there are no changing lines but the overall translation of the main Hexagram is favourable does this mean that the situation will never change? There are a couple websites which host free computer readings and although the answer to my questions may have been favourable in relation [...]

Free tarot reading

Wednesday, June 13th, 2007

I recently accepted Denise Martine’s kind offer of a free tarot reading . I asked for advice on the development of Clarity’s paid membership service (it doesn’t have a name yet!), which you’ll hear much more about after the redesigned site is finished. (Oh, by the way, it is just a new service within the [...]

Hexagram 5: Waiting

Sunday, June 10th, 2007

In the context of readings, this sometimes turns out to be one of Yi’s more humorous responses. Just a few days ago I asked what changing to a well-known autoresponder service would bring my business, and received 5.5 to 11. So I went ahead and signed up, only to find I’d done so on the [...]

Synchronicity and the Tao

Thursday, June 7th, 2007

I’ve just started reading Jean Shinoda Bolen’s Tao of Psychology. It’s a wonderful book. Not much writing about synchronicity really seems to ‘get it’, but this most assuredly does: “Synchronicity is the connecting principle… between our psyches and an external event, in which we feel an uncanny sense of inner and outer being linked. In [...]