Hilary Barrett, I Ching

Archive for February, 2011

A cycle for diviners?

Friday, February 18th, 2011

I wanted to see what you thought of this blog post from James Warlock, who was part of last year’s Festival of Change: The Magickian’s Cycle. It begins: The magickian’s cycle is, in essence, as follow: Become very enthusiastic about magick Practice magick in a regular and dedicated fashion Have an crisis – either external [...]

Reading with hexagram eyes again

Monday, February 14th, 2011

This morning I picked up a book at random, opened it at random, and found myself reading what Thomas Moore has to say about jealousy in Care of the Soul. He relates it to the myth of Hippolytus, a young man who was a devotee of the goddess Artemis, something of a misogynist, avoided women [...]

Turning points

Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011

Someone, some day, really is going to have to write a huge Yi book that not only describes individual moving lines with their zhi gua in mind – for example, writing about 27.6 with 24 in mind – but also describes groups of moving lines with their zhi gua in mind. They will need to be [...]