Hilary Barrett, I Ching

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 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 [...]

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. [...]

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.