Hilary Barrett, I Ching

I’m plodding steadily through the work of compiling the multi-translation index I promised for the ‘Words of Change’ glossary. I’m realising various things as I go along…

This is a much bigger job than I thought. Erk. If no-one buys it after this I’m going to kick myself into the middle of next week.
Yi has [...]

Over on his ‘I Ching insights’ blog, Eric Bryant’s noticed a pattern in his readings. Yi gave him the exact same reading - including the same line changing - for two ‘unrelated’ subjects, business and a relationship. As he points out, you only get to see this kind of thing if you keep a journal [...]

Brad Hatcher points out that 14 out of 64 hexagrams’ first lines mention feet. I wonder whether there isn’t a fifteenth implied at 49.1:
‘For binding use yellow cowhide’
What might you bind with yellow cowhide? It could be a tethered animal, of course, as Rutt suggests. But looking at the fan yao -
‘Influence in your big [...]

In the Words of Change glossary (coming up within the next week or two) I’ve written this about constancy, zhen:
“…We have a vision of the future - not what’s inevitably going to happen, but what it is right for us to bring into being. You can conceive of this as a call from the spirits [...]