Hilary Barrett, I Ching

After the success of my first I Ching Class last Spring, I’ll be running a second class for a further 12 people in October and November. The class will centre on eight weekly teleclasses (phone calls on a conference line) with comprehensive handouts for each call and reference materials. There’ll be a private forum for [...]

Hexagram 18, line 5: ‘Ancestral father’s corruption. Use praise.’ So how is praise in any way helpful in dealing with corruption? Hexagram 18 is one of those whose lines seem to have a reasonably clear progression, starting with taking on responsibility for and ‘ownership of’ the inherited corruption, and moving up towards a point where [...]

After the slight embarrassment of having to turn down people who asked to pay for several months’ membership of Change Circle at once (and doesn’t that sound as if I made it up? I didn’t, though), I’ve created the option to pay for a year’s membership in advance. You might find this option more convenient [...]

When I cast a reading for the week, sometimes I find the reading tells me about the week; sometimes I find the week tells me about the reading. And usually it’s some mix of the two. This last week Yi suggested I look out simply for Hexagram 10 – no changing lines. Maybe I could [...]

The Judgement of Hexagram 62 reads: ‘Small overstepping, creating success. Harvest in constancy. Allows small works, does not allow great works. Flying bird calls as it leaves: The above is not right, below is right. Great good fortune.’ The flying bird brings a message; this is something that birds do, in old Europe just as [...]