Hilary Barrett, I Ching

Archive for April, 2009

Introducing Divination

Thursday, April 30th, 2009

This is a 7 minute excerpt from the beginning of last weekend’s ‘Introducing Divination’ call, in which I introduce the call and people introduce divination to one another.  Participants include Lynne Tolk of lifedirectionscoach.com, Jane English of eheart.com, and Josephine.

(Click the blue ‘play’ button to play, or right-click here to download the excerpt. You can [...]

Download the handout for today’s free call

Sunday, April 26th, 2009

I’m hosting a free call today – at 7pm UK time, 11am Pacific (more timezones here) – introducing and exploring divination and the I Ching.
The call will include…

“What’s divination for?” – how you can use it to make a difference in your own experience
three tips for creative questioning
an introduction to the I Ching
and a live [...]

Free call on the 26th

Saturday, April 18th, 2009

Just to make sure you don’t miss this…
On Sunday 26th at 7pm here in the UK (which is 11am Pacific time – and you can translate this to your own timezone here) there’s a free call to discuss synchronicity, divination and the I Ching. 
Someone just emailed to ask if this was interactive or a ‘lecture’ [...]

Hexagram 34: Great Vigour

Tuesday, April 14th, 2009

Hexagram 34 is Great Vigour – or Power, or Strength. The old character shows a scholar, or an impressive man, and half the character for ‘tree’. It means robust, powerful, in the prime of life. Combined with the character for ‘great’ – a man standing straight – this gives a powerful impression of virile strength [...]

The lines that don’t change

Thursday, April 9th, 2009

The other day, I responded to a client’s I Ching Course assignment about a reading with five moving lines. Since I’m not a fan of systems that reduce the number of moving lines (I reckon that if your answer were contained in a single moving line, you’d have received just that one), I always have [...]

More steps when stuck

Monday, April 6th, 2009

I was writing on Saturday about a reading kindly shared by Eric Bryant of I Ching Insights (‘petrosianii’ here at Clarity). He asked about the effect of purchasing some nicotine-free cigarettes as an aid to giving up smoking; he received first Hexagram 25 moving to 41, and then Hexagram 37 unchanging. I’ve ‘adopted’ Eric’s reading [...]

Steps when stuck

Saturday, April 4th, 2009

Over at his ‘I Ching Insights‘ blog, Eric Bryant’s doing sterling work writing up the whole process of a reading: formulating the question, and interpreting the answer. And in the process, he’s run into an experience that’s pretty familiar to anyone who’s ever talked with the oracle: he’s got stuck on the interpretation.
I’m really glad [...]

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