Hilary Barrett, I Ching

Archive for August, 2009

Yi, or the Yi

Sunday, August 30th, 2009

A while ago, I received an email politely suggesting I stop referring to the Yi simply as ‘Yi’ without an article. The writer maintained that since the oracle is ‘not a person’, it would be better not to give it a ‘pet name’; this was not good English usage when talking about a book.
I welcomed [...]

Lasting

Sunday, August 16th, 2009

For some reason, working through the lines of hexagram 32 recently took much longer than any other hexagram had done…
I did find, looking through threads about it at the forum, that other people find it hard, too. Especially, it’s puzzling how a hexagram that describes something essentially positive can have such a scary [...]