Hilary Barrett, I Ching

There are times – plenty of them – when not being able to think of a question for the I Ching seems an impossible luxury, and the difficult thing is to stop asking. There’s a constant whirling of questions in your mind: ‘What if I tried…?’ ‘How can I…?’ ‘What about…?’
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I was just looking through the latest from the Readings Panel at GreatVessel.com . The questioner asked how to deal with a difficult manager, and received Hexagram 10, Treading, moving to Hexagram 61, Inner Truth, through a changing line at the fourth place:
‘Treading the tiger’s tail.
Careful pleading,
Good fortune in the end.’
You can read a remarkable, [...]

There have been several new pages added to the online version of Yijing Wondering and Wandering. Here are stories, images and ideas for (so far) hexagrams 1 to 14. If one of these happens to be your weekly or daily hexagram, here’s good food for meditation.

I store my I Ching readings on my computer; I have done for many years. It makes them easier to review, both because my handwriting’s in the ‘inebriated spider meanderings’ class, and because of the wonders of search.
“Didn’t I receive this hexagram before when I was trying to work out what to write to X?”
With [...]

Hexagram 22 is Beauty and Making Beautiful. We use it to make images of ourselves, so that we can form connections with other people. When the young man sets out to see his prospective bride (as he does in the line texts of 22), he makes himself a suitor for her. Later he might make [...]

… is so much more interesting than just watching the tennis. Today was the men’s final at the Wimbledon championships. Roger Federer had won for the past four years on the trot and was huge favourite to make it five in a row. And so he did, beating Rafael Nadal over five sets.
Federer is cool, [...]

Consistently the most popular topic for questions to the I Ching is romantic relationships. Blend equal quantities of passionate desire, wild hope and utter bafflement, and you get questions for an oracle – lots of questions.
But it’s especially valuable to divine about all those other relationships: friendships, working relationships of all kinds, partnerships, maybe family. [...]