Hilary Barrett, I Ching

…to Opening Space for Change.
You can win a free ticket to the whole event.
That includes the two calls – clearing and opening a space to listen in, and attuning to the response -
…and their recordings
…and a copy of the music Eliana just recorded at an ancient well in Galilee, especially for use in divination
…and the [...]

I’m not a great Christmas-enthusiast, but there’s something about New Year that always delights me. I imagine it’s simply the promise of newness: things may have been a certain way last year, but that needn’t prove anything about this year. It’s a grand, sparkling invitation to remake habits and patterns, to re-imagine and recreate – [...]

I was pretty much bowled over a couple of days ago when a publishing company – a real one that does real, paper books and pays authors – contacted me to ask if I’d be interested in doing an I Ching book.
Would I?!
Of course I would. At least… – and then you would not believe [...]

The Yijing/ I Ching is the Change Classic; its friends often just call it by name, ‘Yi’, ‘Change’.
The word spreads wide ripples of meaning: the cyclic, recurring changes represented in the regular structure and sequence of the hexagrams; the sudden changes captured by the moving lines. Yi represents change and offers ways to negotiate it.
But [...]

I’m enjoying reading Stephen Field’s Ancient Chinese Divination, especially the insight into the early understanding of qi and how it flows.
I’m just reading his description of Form School fengshui. While its earliest written description is (in Yijing terms) relatively young (the Tang dynasty Book of Burial), the fundamental idea that qi flows through the earth [...]

Back when Eliana and I first started juggling ideas for Opening Space for Change, of course one of the first things I did was to ask Yi for a comment on the idea. Not for the business partnership side of things, but first of all for the whole idea of using music and sound to [...]

I love those synchronicities that come as pure encouragement, like welcoming signposts saying, ‘Yes, this way.’
I was talking to Eliana, who’s joining with me to create the Opening Space for Change event in a few weeks’ time. I’d just been working on a reading for the podcast about how to open the channel, and Eliana [...]