…finally! After more hours than I care to count spent fighting the editing program, you can get the recording and transcript of ‘Journey Imagery in the Yijing’ here. £7 for the download, plus £5 p&p&p&p (production, printing, postage and packing 😉 ) if you’d like it on CD-ROM as well.… Read more »‘Journey imagery’ recording and transcript now available
Mark McElroy, of tarottools.com, has kindly sent me the proofs of his upcoming book, I Ching for Beginners. And as beginners’ books go, it’s pretty good, with some useful, thought-provoking ways of approaching the hexagrams. I’ll review it later on its own merits – but first, I need to get this rant out of my system. Because Mark swells the growing numbers of ‘modernisers’ and ‘simplifiers’ who carefully remove all the oracle’s imagery.
I Ching Community Discussion Forum: 14.1…negative or not? ‘No intercourse with what is harmful, In no way at fault, Hardship is thus not a mistake.’ or ‘Having no commerce with trouble. To never be wrong Is a hardship, but otherwise not a mistake.’ (Brad) Or even ‘Not associating with violent… Read more »I Ching discussion: hexagram 14 line 1
The short version, in case you don’t have eight minutes to listen to the audio: we had an informal webinar sharing readings; it was a success; people enjoyed it. I’ll be running more of these, and they’ll still be free. And if you want to be sure of hearing about them in advance, make sure your email address is on the notification list by sending a blank email to gatherings at onlineClarity.co.uk. (Replace the ‘at’ with ‘@’ and miss out the spaces, of course.)
Click the ‘play’ button below for the longer version, where I talk about a couple of I Ching readings I did about this.
Hexagram 44 seems to be the most-debated hexagram of the lot. Should we be afraid of what the yin line in the first place represents? Of encroaching evil, temptation, the thin end of the wedge? (Not to mention the unspeakable horrors of ‘a bold girl who lightly surrenders herself’.) Or should we be nurturing a new life, welcoming it with respect? Much discussion ensues.
When I read good books, I sometimes find myself wanting to pencil in a hexagram in the margins. These excerpts from Paulo Coelho’s Veronika decides to die seem to me to paint a vivid picture of Hexagram 44 – an aspect of it, at least.
Sam Crane has a great Taoist blog, the Useless Tree, where he’s branching out into I Ching divination – it looks as though he’s making ‘Friday I Ching blogging’ a regular thing. At the beginning of August, he asked: Will the six party talks on North Korea succeed? Yi says:… Read more »I Ching on international politics
..with photos 😉
