Hilary Barrett, I Ching

Archive for April, 2010

Making up the answers

Thursday, April 29th, 2010

I don’t normally find it easy to read tarot blogs – I just don’t know enough about tarot to ‘get’ it most of the time – but I’m delighting in Ginny Hunt’s post about Intuition and Making Shit Up. She’s definitely talking about people’s experience with the I Ching, too: What is this thing we [...]

Hexagram 36, Brightness Hiding

Monday, April 26th, 2010

The name of Hexagram 36, ming yi, is translated as ‘brightness hidden’ or ‘brightness wounded’. The two ideas blend together in readings: the light is hidden away to escape the danger of injury. The wealth of layers of association in this hexagram hint at a complex relationship of light and dark. ‘Yi’, ‘hidden’ or ‘wounded’, [...]

Shadow hexagrams

Thursday, April 15th, 2010

I sometimes think of Stephen Karcher as the alchemist of Yijing interpretation, working away in his divination-laboratory and emerging from time to time with new techniques and tools of interpretation for diviners to test out. I’ll always try what he offers, and often find it immensely useful – though by the time I’ve spent a [...]