The Useless Tree: Friday I Ching: Hurricanes and the Mandate of Heaven Sam Crane has found quite a question to ask this time: “What does this second hurricane suggest for President Bush’s hold on the Mandate of Heaven?” Sam’s understanding of the Mandate is that it “is rooted in how… Read more »Friday I Ching: Hurricanes and the Mandate of Heaven
Images in the Heavens, Patterns on the Earth: The I Ching Photographs by Janet Russek and David Sheinbaum On exhibit in the West Wing of the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz, NY from September 30th to November 20th The exhibition is of 64 photos: you can read more… Read more »I Ching photos at New Paltz
Email from John: “I was wondering why someone such as the host of ‘Useless Tree’ would ask such large questions as he does. Isn’t it better to ask such questions so as to influence events to promote the general benevolence?” It’s a reasonable question, and I’ll send Sam Crane a… Read more »Why ask political questions?
Donna kindly sent me a reminder of Frank Steiner’s I Ching Symphony. There are excerpts from all eight movements (one per trigram) online to listen to. Definitely ‘New Age music’ – one of the reviewers at Amazon recommends it for use at the dentist’s, or for putting children to sleep!… Read more »I Ching Symphony
I Ching – InterTao Ely Britto has created an English version of her I Ching website. It’s an excellent, very clear account of how to approach the I Ching through the traditional Chinese system of trigrams and line relationships.
A novel online reading – an I Ching clock that tells the Time. When I tried it, it gave me the hexagram I should be interpreting for a client right now. Good point.
GreenOwl wrote:
“Ideally you need to allow a good half hour to talk with (or rather listen to) your querent and arrive at the right question for them.â€
Any chance you could do a post (y’know, sometime) that walks through an example of that process? Or, if you’ve already written about it and I’m forgetting, just point in the right direction. Thanks!
That’s tricky, as I promise clients complete confidentiality – no discussion of their situation, question or answer, even anonymously. So I can’t go through a specific real-life example. But I can talk about general experiences that I’ve had with a few hundred customers – why not?
