Hilary Barrett, I Ching

Archive for August, 2008

Lake reflections

Monday, August 25th, 2008

Yesterday some Change Circle members went on a remarkable inner journey, visiting a Lake and a Mountain, receiving some unexpected gifts. (Thank you, Kevin, who guided the guided imagery.) Change Circle members can access the recording from our home page; if you’d like to join us for future explorations, you can sign up here.
Then I [...]

Total Yijing software for Vista

Thursday, August 21st, 2008

Good news! The Total Yijing software is (finally) available in a Vista-compatible form. I’ve downloaded, installed and upgraded and it’s running smoothly.
I wouldn’t necessarily suggest buying this one if what you most want is somewhere to store readings and keep a searchable journal. It’s easy enough to use and has some nice features (like adding [...]

Hexagram 29 and learning to swim

Saturday, August 16th, 2008

I didn’t learn to swim until I was ten. I’m told that when I was first put into a pool, at age 4 or so, I screamed at the top of my lungs until I could get out again. The teacher would grab other children by the hands and whirl them in circles over the [...]

Constancy of the woman

Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

One of the things we Westerners need to learn when divining with the Yijing is a certain flexibility about gender. Women need to be able to identify with a series of male kings and heroes (Kings Wen and Wu, Yu the Great, King Hai…), to say nothing of finding a peaceful co-existence with the popular [...]

Harmen cuts through Hexagram 23

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008

Cutting through hexagram 23 - Harmen’s Dagboek. One of those splendidly detailed articles from Harmen I need to read over and over again. One thing that leaps to the eye: he mentions that one component of the hexagram name (as it appears in the received text) is itself used as a loan for three characters [...]

Change Circle is open to Friends

Friday, August 1st, 2008

Friends of Clarity - that’s everyone who’s joined the free membership - can now access the sign-up page for Change Circle.
The doors are creaking open gradually like this to ensure that customers and then members have first dibs on the Founder Member places in Change Circle - which means a special reduced monthly fee, and [...]