Hilary Barrett, I Ching

(Eep… this is the longest gap between blog posts in ages. Where have I been? I’m not completely sure… but it’s involved getting started writing a book (more about this in Change Circle shortly),  getting to know the excellent people who are participating in this year’s Yijing Class, and starting house-hunting – and that has a tendency [...]

(Sometimes I’m working through my notes and some small thing comes into focus. Here’s one of them.)
Hexagram 28 is ‘Great Overstepping’: the time of ‘overstepping the mark’ or ’stepping over the line’, when the weight of things goes beyond what the structure can support, and the ridgepole begins to warp under the strain.
Often, we experience [...]

I wrote before about how Yi can be a vehicle for instantaneous change, through an image that immediately transforms your experience. On the call last Sunday, we discussed these and other ‘vehicles for change’, and four other ways that the Yijing fosters personal transformation.
(If you missed the call, you can pick up the call notes [...]

I just finished the handout for today’s free call on the I Ching as ‘Book of Transformations’: you’re welcome to download this in pdf format (to print out and write on) or as an editable rtf file. Do get yourself a copy even if you can’t make it to the live call; there will be [...]

I’m running a free call this Sunday (10th) about the I Ching as ‘book of transformations’. This is all part of the preparations for this year’s I Ching Class: I’m trying to use the free calls to give a flavour of what it’s about, as well as some practical suggestions and techniques you can take [...]

Sometimes, after you’ve looked at an I Ching reading for a while, the natural next step is to ask another question to help you understand aspects of that first reading. And sometimes the further answers you’re looking for are already present in your original reading, if you just have the time and patience – and [...]