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 [...]

I only just stumbled across this excellent article from Harmen about the origin of the character Yi. Read and enjoy! I relish Harmen’s own willingness to change his own mind, too; it’s easy to get married to one’s own theories and settle down into undisturbed domestic bliss - I catch myself doing the same [...]

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 [...]

And I thought I wrote about trigrams in the Sequence. Heh. Here’s Frank Kegan doing a very complete and insightful job of it. He sees the Sequence in groups of ten (which I’ve found works startlingly well - you might think that more patterns would emerge if you took it in eights, but that doesn’t [...]

… as a source of political insight. Suzi Gablik thought it a good source. (She asked about the meaning of the 9/11 attacks and received 15.6.) Her correspondent reacted as if she’d committed blasphemy against the jealous divinity of social science, or something. And Virgil the alligator commented on all this with his customary wit [...]

Someone emailed me recently to say that the written instructions for the yarrow method were too complex, and was there a video she could watch? I said no, sorry, and suggested that if she took it step by step a few times she’d soon get into the rhythm of the thing.
Since then I’ve found this [...]

Some hexagrams - like 29 - seem to derive much of their meaning from their component trigrams. Some - like 27 - seem to derive it in the first place from the picture made by the lines themselves. Hexagram 27 looks like jaws; Hexagram 21 looks as though an obstacle’s been placed between the teeth [...]