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 [...]

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 [...]

So that Change Circle’s ‘WikiWing’ doesn’t start life as 64 empty pages, I’m writing my own contribution for each hexagram before we open - an edited and distilled version of my own working notes. That way there’ll be something there to refer to for every hexagram and line right from the start, and also [...]

I first read this story in Women Who Run with the Wolves, and it was one of those ’scribbling hexagrams in the margins’ moments for me. You can read a longer version of the tale here, but this is the core of it:
Vassilissa was a beautiful young girl who lived with her father and [...]

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 [...]

Hexagram 30, Clarity, has a lot to say about understanding transience. The fourth line is especially emphatic:
‘Sudden,
Comes,
Burns,
Dies,
Thrown out.’
Here is something that flares up brightly, but dies away for lack of fuel. Wilhelm sees someone who ‘rises quickly to prominence but produces no lasting effects.’ Stephen Karcher sees ‘an omen of what must be cast [...]

I’ve been revisiting the idea of the ‘non-people’ in hexagram 12. The most helpful way to understand them, most of the time, is as people we regard, for whatever reason, as not quite ‘like us’ enough to be real. Most of the time, the problem is with the labelling and consequent failure of communication, [...]