Hilary Barrett, I Ching

Here’s an email I can’t resist quoting:

“I logged in finally the other day and peeked at the emerging WikiWing.
WOW!
This is just brilliant and I agree with everyone that it is something I would happily pay for in book form!
I just browsed a bit on hexagram 5 that I had received previously [...]

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 [...]

You could say that the first objective of divination is to be more aware - have more insight, connect intuitively with the way, be more completely present. That would be true for any reading, even if it’s not the first goal that comes to mind. It’s especially, true, though, of readings done as a [...]

There are two lines in Hexagram 20 that differ by just one word:
Line 5 -
‘Seeing my own life.
The noble one is without mistake.’
Line 6 -
‘Seeing their lives.
The noble one is without mistake.’
Seeing ‘my own’ life, or seeing ‘his, her or their’ life. How to understand the difference between these two perspectives? One possibility is [...]

Since I’m up to my neck in the technical stuff for Change Circle - irritating but necessary, as the last thing I want is technology getting in the way for people - I need to bow to the inevitable for a week, fill my head with templates and cascading style sheets and suchlike, and [...]

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 [...]

You’ll want to subscribe to the Quoteable I Ching blog, if you haven’t already. Despite the title, it doesn’t just contain quotations from the I Ching, but lovely lucid thoughts on how other things - poems, images, quotations - reflect the hexagrams. Or how the hexagrams reflect in other things.
I enjoyed all the posts [...]