Hilary Barrett, I Ching

Archive for June, 2008

Hexagram 20, Seeing Life

Monday, June 30th, 2008

There are two lines in Hexagram 20 that differ by just one word:
Line 5 -
‘Seeing my own life.
The noble one is without mistake.’
Line 6 -
‘Seeing their lives.
The noble one is without mistake.’
Seeing ‘my own’ life, or seeing ‘his, her or their’ life. How to understand the difference between these two perspectives? One possibility is to [...]

No readings for a week, sorry

Sunday, June 29th, 2008

Since I’m up to my neck in the technical stuff for Change Circle - irritating but necessary, as the last thing I want is technology getting in the way for people - I need to bow to the inevitable for a week, fill my head with templates and cascading style sheets and suchlike, and not [...]

Layers in a weekly reading

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

Each Sunday, I cast a reading for the week ahead - sometimes just asking for something to be aware of, sometimes asking for advice. This week I asked for advice, and received Hexagram 4, Not Knowing, with no changing lines.
This was pretty baffling. Lately I’ve been working very intensely and intentionally, focussed in on the [...]

The Quoteable I Ching

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

You’ll want to subscribe to the Quoteable I Ching blog, if you haven’t already. Despite the title, it doesn’t just contain quotations from the I Ching, but lovely lucid thoughts on how other things - poems, images, quotations - reflect the hexagrams. Or how the hexagrams reflect in other things.
I enjoyed all the posts so [...]

Hexagram 47 - WikiWing contribution

Thursday, June 19th, 2008

So that Change Circle’s ‘WikiWing’ doesn’t start life as 64 empty pages, I’m writing my own contribution for each hexagram before we open - an edited and distilled version of my own working notes. That way there’ll be something there to refer to for every hexagram and line right from the start, and also something [...]

Change Circle update

Monday, June 16th, 2008

Some 50 truly brilliant people have taken the trouble to fill out the Change Circle Features Survey. Thank you. I know this one is a bit on the long side, and I really appreciate your time and thoughtfulness.
I always prefer taking those surveys where I can satisfy my curiosity and see the responses afterwards. [...]

Beautiful readings

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

A search for I Ching things brought me to this blog post. Profound questions, beautiful readings; I can’t describe the blog as a whole.