Hilary Barrett, I Ching

I’m chortling in a wry sort of way over my reading for this week.
I’ve spent the past umpteen weeks labouring faithfully over Change Circle. Planning, choosing technology and dreaming about what wonderful things it makes possible, fighting said technology, winning battles but losing the war. Starting over with different technology and its own set [...]

Each Sunday, I cast a reading for the week ahead - sometimes just asking for something to be aware of, sometimes asking for advice. This week I asked for advice, and received Hexagram 4, Not Knowing, with no changing lines.
This was pretty baffling. Lately I’ve been working very intensely and intentionally, focussed in on [...]

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.

I’ve been thinking and divining about confidence in readings, and acting on readings, and being coached along the way by Yi into asking more lucid questions.
Having the confidence to act on a reading, by itself, was no guide to anything. Reaching the right moment to act on a reading could be a powerful thing [...]

When I asked about getting the confidence to act on one’s understanding of a reading, Yi pointed out to me in its own inimitable way that this wasn’t a very valuable question to ask. One can get into trouble by having confidence as easily as by lacking it. So why don’t I ask about [...]

When I asked people their biggest challenge in working with the I Ching, so many said, in one form of words or another, that it had to do with confidence.
Forming a question, casting a hexagram, even coming up with intelligent interpretations of the answer - these things might take some practice, but they flow [...]

Yi on Twitter - or, “three thousand year old oracle meets microblogging app” - or something.
Hm.
What’s Twitter? As far as I can make out, it’s a strange little hybrid of a blog and an instant messaging client: people post personal updates, thoughts of the moment and links to their Twitter page, and also respond [...]