Hilary Barrett, I Ching

One of the trickier aspects of interpreting an I Ching reading has to be working out what scale the oracle’s using. By which I mean, if it says ‘good fortune’, is that a lottery win or a pot of jam in the raffle (for instance)? Does ‘misfortune’ mean mild inconvenience, or threat to life [...]

Crispy hexagrams - of course. Superb idea.
“In 3,000 years, divination never tasted so good!”

If you’ve ever wondered about purchasing Alfred Huang’s Complete I Ching - I’ve just come across a site where you can browse through his full translation (though not his commentary) in a beautifully clear presentation. Huang’s name is somewhat hard to find, tucked away as it is on the ‘references’ page, but this is [...]

Here’s an excerpt from Osho, talking about divination to a student of astrology. He says that it’s possible to make predictions about people only because ‘people live like mechanical things’. (Strong words, but you know what he means.)
“If you know the past of the person, unless the person is a buddha, you will be [...]

My personal ‘hexagram for the week’: 23, unchanging.
Eek.
Not so long ago, this wouldn’t have bothered me in the least. I know many people are nervous of the ‘bad’ hexagrams and anticipate disasters whenever they receive hexagrams 23, 44 or 12 (the three most often labelled as ‘bad’). I’ve never believed in this easy categorisation. [...]

In my internet wanderings, I came across this post on the Original Faith blog that seems to capture the spirit of being Without Entanglement.
“None of this is on my time. I resent nothing and no one.
I share in the whole world by laying claim to none of it,
Tasting what is sweet and bitter even [...]

A sidenote to yesterday’s post about past, present and future…
Often what we most want to know is how to do something. How to be in a relationship, how to get through a difficult time, how to make the most of an opportunity, and so on. Then we start spinning stories around this desire, and [...]