Hilary Barrett, I Ching

My husband and I go out on the back lawn when the weather’s good enough, and play badminton. Let’s see… David’s six feet tall, lean and wiry and a natural athlete; I’m five foot two, about two stone overweight, and hopelessly uncoordinated – you know the one who can’t even catch a netball and who’s [...]

When the new site design goes live, you’ll see a prominent link at the top of each page for ‘Members’. This is where, if you’ve joined as a Friend, you’ll find your free downloads. It’s also the place where, as a customer, you’ll find all your download pages. Let me show you… As before, sorry [...]

The ways you can sign up for things here at the moment are in something of a muddle. You might have signed up for the ‘Answers’ newsletter, where I talk about the latest blog posts in a twice-monthly email. Maybe you got the free I Ching course at the same time. And you might have [...]

Hexagram 18, Corruption, demands that we actively engage with how things are. And things are a mess: there are ‘negative patterns’ playing themselves out, or in other words the same old bad things keep on happening.

That’s how the third line of Hexagram 6, Arguing, begins: ‘Eating ancient de. Constancy: danger. In the end, good fortune. Maybe following king’s business, No accomplishment.’ It’s unusual for Yi to talk in abstract imagery in this way – eating not food, but de. De, as in Daodejing, is virtue, but also power, charisma and [...]

I’ve been hearing from quite a few people lately who are wondering what to do when they’re consulting the I Ching, and their coins behave oddly. What if one rolls away? What if it ends up under the furniture? Or propped up against something so it doesn’t land flat? Of course, if you toss enough [...]

After my last post with its cautionary tale, it’s good to be able to tell you that the new site design will go live this month. So this would be a space to watch. Meanwhile, here’s a preview of the new navigation: The real thing is altogether bigger, brighter and clearer, of course – I [...]