Hilary Barrett, I Ching

I’ve been talking with each speaker for the Festival of Change, bouncing ideas around, discussing what we’ll cover in their call, and getting to the point where – never mind the whole running-an-event, selling-tickets thing – I’m really looking forward to this just for what I can learn from these people.
Anyway… I’ve tried to give [...]

Some wise person (who may or may not have been Einstein) once said that everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler. Seems like good advice for divination.
Thing is, we do seem to make it complicated. There’s the way we somehow manage to get from spending time choosing the question (to avoid [...]

I’ve stumbled across a question to ask Yi that’s rapidly becoming one of my favourites:
‘What’s the gift?’
It can be asked about almost anything, of course. A situation, an approach, a book… I just asked about what my new way of eating gives me, and had a very clear, very interesting reply. (Part of it was [...]

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 call [...]

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 [...]

Continuing with Harmen’s Ten Laws of Proper Yijing Practice…
Law 3 -
Too much is less than enough.
“Can I expect any positive movement from P’s corner in the next couple of months?” I got Hex 10 unchanging. I get a sense that 10 means moving with caution. So I asked ….. “Why would he hesitate [...]

(Note: this is a quick post, throwing an idea out into the ether as soon as it hatches, with just a few feathers sticking to its scrawny neck, and a great big gaping beak squawking ‘Feed me!’ It is distinctly lacking in flight-feathers of its own as yet.)
People instinctively feel that there must be some [...]