Hilary Barrett, I Ching

Especially when you’re getting started with the I Ching, it can be hard to know what to ask – or what you can ask – or hard to put your question into words. Hence the ‘Suggested questions’ page here, which offers ideas for questions on anything from relationships with your parents to changing career to [...]

My I Ching reading for last week was Hexagram 36, Brightness Hiding, with no changing lines. And following the plans I’d already made for that week, which involved reaching out and making connections to others in various ways, I hit one technical road-hump after another. (Moral of this story: consider revising your plans in the [...]

I just came across this I Ching commentary from the perspective of Buddhist spiritual journey, and drawing on Osho’s ideas. The first seven hexagrams are covered so far, and they offer some interesting reading. I like this, for Hexagram 5: “All we can do is become deserving and the moment we are deserving the rain [...]

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It’s a cliché of every I Ching introduction: the oracle is an aid to decision-making. Of course, it’s also perfectly true. Historically, the ancient Chinese divined on decisions about marriage, warfare, whether to open the fields, what to offer to the ancestors. Nowadays people consult the I Ching on which job to take, whether to buy a house, whether to stick with a relationship or leave it…

I’ve been enjoying this I Ching introduction from CJ Stone. He goes straight to the heart of the thing: “The I-Ching also has a central character, and a definite place and time period, but its central character is not divine or even remotely inspired, and its time period is not historical. Its central character is [...]

Today’s Changeover Day – the day I transfer the whole site, bit by bit, to its new look and feel. I’ll be doing this in installments, which means that for a while you may find weird incongruities when clicking links. It should all be completed today, though, so if you still find things looking odd [...]