Hilary Barrett, I Ching

Archive for July, 2008

Divination with Flickr

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

Here’s a lovely suggestion from Hollis Polk: divination with Flickr, the photo-sharing site. The images that come up when you search for an abstract quality (like ‘freedom’ or ‘discipline’) - searching the full text, and sorting on ‘most interesting’ like Hollis suggests - come out teeming with meaning like a tarot spread. Entering the names [...]

Exposing the Image?

Sunday, July 27th, 2008

Quote from Using the I Ching: Exposing the Image | dailyrevolution.net :
“One of the best examples of the clarity that the Anthony and Moog text has added to our understanding of the I Ching can be found in how the authors treat the traditional Image portion of the text: they ignore it. But they also [...]

First places at Change Circle open for customers

Friday, July 25th, 2008

If you’re an existing customer of Clarity - ie if you’ve ever bought anything here - then Change Circle just opened for you: private Reading Circle forum, WikiWing hexagram-by-hexagram commentary, blogs, and more to come. There are a limited number of Founder Member places available, and I’m offering them to customers first. (Founder Members pay [...]

Hexagram 9 - WikiWing contribution

Saturday, July 19th, 2008

Here’s an email I can’t resist quoting:

“I logged in finally the other day and peeked at the emerging WikiWing.
WOW!
This is just brilliant and I agree with everyone that it is something I would happily pay for in book form!
I just browsed a bit on hexagram 5 that I had received previously and [...]

Coming slowly, slowly

Thursday, July 17th, 2008

I’m chortling in a wry sort of way over my reading for this week.
I’ve spent the past umpteen weeks labouring faithfully over Change Circle. Planning, choosing technology and dreaming about what wonderful things it makes possible, fighting said technology, winning battles but losing the war. Starting over with different technology and its own set of [...]

Divination for awareness

Sunday, July 6th, 2008

You could say that the first objective of divination is to be more aware - have more insight, connect intuitively with the way, be more completely present. That would be true for any reading, even if it’s not the first goal that comes to mind. It’s especially, true, though, of readings done as a regular [...]