Hilary Barrett, I Ching

It was some time after I thought I’d ‘completed’ my hexagram commentary to contribute to Change Circle‘s WikiWing when I realised there was a line I’d completely forgotten. Hexagram 2, ‘using sixes’: the text that’s read when every line is moving, and Hexagram 2 changes towards Hexagram 1. ‘Harvest from ever-flowing constancy.’ If you use [...]

At 7pm UK time tomorrow – Saturday 27th – I’m hosting a call to discuss divination, benefitting more from each reading, staying connected and being changed by it. The call is free, and not a discussion of technical Yijing things; it’s intended to be useful to anyone with an interest in divination and connection to [...]

Here it is… I Ching podcast, episode 1. In future I’d like to add more sections to this – some interviews, feedback, shared experiences, maybe even some music like a real, grown-up podcast. Some of the more in-depth stuff will be for Change Circle members only, but there’ll always be a free part, too. At [...]

Here’s a whole field of study where (as far as I know) we’ve barely scratched the surface. Each hexagram line ‘points towards’ the hexagram created when it changes, its zhi gua. It’s natural enough to go through the I Ching line by line and see how each one reflects the relationship of its two hexagrams [...]

I just added my Twitter updates to the blog’s sidebar. You can see them over on the right, just below the subscription buttons and above the ‘Recent Comments’. Then it dawned on me I should maybe explain what on earth this is. Twitter is a kind of cross between a radically miniaturised blog and instant [...]

Learning in groups has never come naturally to me. Back in college, when everyone else was hurrying to attend the tutors’ revision sessions before Finals, I was sitting alone in my room, in the middle of the floor, entirely surrounded by my own densely-scrawled notes full of original ideas. And this worked out nicely for [...]

There seem to be two distinct streams of ideas flowing in Hexagram 49, Radical Change. First, it’s arguably the apex, along with Hexagram 50, of the great historical narrative of the Zhou conquest. ‘Radical Change puts away the old; the Vessel grasps renewal.’ The old regime is overthrown here; the new one will be founded [...]