Hilary Barrett, I Ching

I just wandered over to Luis’ Yi blog, where I read that…
“Many people, with a only few years of reading and using the Yi, feel otherwise compelled to, and capable of, holding debates about it with those that have spent most of their life dedicated to its study. Even those life-timers, if sincere, will tell [...]

Over on his ‘I Ching insights’ blog, Eric Bryant’s noticed a pattern in his readings. Yi gave him the exact same reading - including the same line changing - for two ‘unrelated’ subjects, business and a relationship. As he points out, you only get to see this kind of thing if you keep a journal [...]

Do you know the feeling of being actually thirsty for readings? It’s a little like the need to talk with someone you love, a little like the need for soul-nourishment that you might satisfy by walking in woods, or making music, or creating something. There’s an inner pull towards the Yijing as Well, often felt [...]

As someone working with an oracle that’s been creating itself for a few thousand years, I’m fascinated when I get a chance to see the beginnings of the process. Here are two posts from an artist, Lorena Moore, to whom it comes very naturally to create her own, with quartz crystals or from lichen.

Two things came together to make this post: first, what I’ve been learning from people telling me how they work with an oracle; secondly, a nice, sensible article from Charles Burke about decision making.
He gives intelligent advice, some of which you may have heard before. Draw up a list of the pros and cons; ask [...]

For some years, I’ve been ‘drumming’ the I Ching from time to time. Not properly or skillfully, generally just on the nearest tabletop. I take a yang line as a single beat, and a yin line as two half beats, and set out through the Sequence in compound duple (six eight) time.
It turns out I’m [...]

Here’s a story I’ve heard, with variations, several times;
“The I Ching? Yes, I did try that when I was in college… yes, it was fascinating, I’d almost forgotten…
These days? I draw a card, maybe tarot, maybe another oracle deck, and look up the meaning in the book. I don’t use the I Ching any more, [...]