Hilary Barrett, I Ching

One of the things we Westerners need to learn when divining with the Yijing is a certain flexibility about gender. Women need to be able to identify with a series of male kings and heroes (Kings Wen and Wu, Yu the Great, King Hai…), to say nothing of finding a peaceful co-existence with the popular [...]

Quote from Using the I Ching: Exposing the Image | dailyrevolution.net :
“One of the best examples of the clarity that the Anthony and Moog text has added to our understanding of the I Ching can be found in how the authors treat the traditional Image portion of the text: they ignore it. But they also [...]

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 and [...]

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 to [...]

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 something [...]

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 mother. [...]

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 that [...]