This month’s podcast features one of those readings where Yi really takes your breath away: ‘How beneficial would it be for me to join the next course on family constellations?’ Yi’s response: Hexagram 18, Corruption, changing at lines 2, 3, 4 and 6 to 16, Enthusiasm. changing to Lux (as… Read more »Family constellations
This is another post about the differences between hexagrams: this time, Hexagrams 23, Stripping Away, and 41, Decreasing. Both are about loss, about ending up with less, and – given human nature – we tend not to be pleased to receive either one. But how are they different? Names and… Read more »Losses
As you might have guessed from the title of this episode, it’s about a reading with Hexagram 22, Beauty, changing at line 1 to 52, Stilling: changing to It was all about becoming imperfectly visible – which the reading’s owner has just begun to do on her Youtube channel… https://livingchange.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/episode48.mp3
There’s more than one story of the Yi’s origins… Mythical origins The story begins in the 29th century BCE with Fuxi, China’s first emperor, who may have had the body of a serpent. It was through his insight that the trigrams were discovered, and people could begin to understand their… Read more »Some Yijing origins
An annual reading, this time: the first thing Maria does on her birthday is to sit down and ask to be shown a reading for the coming year. Here’s hers for 2023-24: Hexagram 36, Brightness Hiding, with no changing lines. Since this was an unchanging reading, we had the time… Read more »Hiding Light
Shock in the background I’ve been mulling over how Hexagram 51, Shock, feels as relating hexagram. After all, a relating hexagram is often the background to an answer – scene-setting, a personal theme, the chapter heading for this part of your life. How does something as abrupt as ‘Shock’ work… Read more »51, Shock, as relating hexagram
I’ve written before about Yi’s kindness, but it’s something I keep rediscovering. There’s the gentleness of its responses to people in crisis – all degrees of crisis, without judgement. One of my own favourite readings comes from a moment when I suddenly felt I’d experienced the final straw, had nothing left… Read more »More of Yi’s kindness
