Hilary Barrett, I Ching

Archive for October, 2007

New article on Hexagram 18

Monday, October 8th, 2007

I had a request to write about Hexagram 18, so I did.
I’ve tried to make this a fairly complete article, discussing the relationship between Following and Corruption, the Image and Judgement, and also added a few words on each of the changing lines. I’d welcome your comments and suggestions - oh, and any [...]

Nuclear hexagrams as archetypes?

Thursday, October 4th, 2007

I came across this at Eric Bryant’s I Ching blog: Atomic I Ching hexagrams and atomic Jungian archetypes. By ‘atomic’ hexagrams he means the four ’seed within the seed’ nuclear hexagrams that all the hexagrams ultimately ‘resolve to’: 1, 2, 63 and 64. These he attempts to map onto archetypal psychological structures: animus, anima, shadow [...]

Intuition

Monday, October 1st, 2007

intuition is an immediate perception. Analysis brings you to a conclusion step by step; intuition happens straight away. I Ching interpretation involves a mixture of intuition and analysis (which in turn creates more food for the intuition), but it all hangs on a single moment of intuition, when you perceive the connection between question and answer.