Hilary Barrett, I Ching

A search for I Ching things brought me to this blog post. Profound questions, beautiful readings; I can’t describe the blog as a whole.

The Vessel, ding, is the name of hexagram 50. It refers to a particularly beautiful and sacred bronze vessel, fit for food to be shared with the ancestors, strong enough to inaugurate a dynasty. You move your ding by inserting a carrying handle through its ‘ears’, loops on its rim. Hexagram 50, line 6, says [...]

If you’re interested in storing (and maybe also casting) your readings in Yijing software, you have a range of very good options nowadays – much better than a few years ago. The venerable San Shan Yijing is still available, with its outstanding functionality and contents somewhat obscured by a counter-intuitive interface. (You can judge this [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]