Someone emailed me recently to say that the written instructions for the yarrow method were too complex, and was there a video she could watch? I said no, sorry, and suggested that if she took it step by step a few times she’d soon get into the rhythm of the… Read more »Yarrow stalk video
Some hexagrams – like 29 – seem to derive much of their meaning from their component trigrams. Some – like 27 – seem to derive it in the first place from the picture made by the lines themselves. Hexagram 27 looks like jaws; Hexagram 21 looks as though an obstacle’s… Read more »Hexagrams as pictures
The Wing of the I Ching describing the Sequence of Hexagrams, the Xugua, generally has a laconic style, sometimes saying scarcely more than, ‘this hexagram is bound to follow from that one.’ But there’s an exception to this when you arrive at Hexagram 31, Influence. This is the first hexagram… Read more »Holism, Hexagram 31 and marriage
Happy New Year! May you be happy and prosperous!
… in your I Ching reading journal. Recently I’ve been thinking (with help from some wise and generous mentoring clients!) about what can show up when you review a series of readings. The way they start to fit together, unfolding a single story or interweaving many themes, always gives me… Read more »Patterns to look for
This just in: the Princeton Multimedia I Ching CD-ROM is for sale on Ebay. As well as a choice of yarrow or coin computerised readings, it also includes a ‘library’ with the full Wilhelm/Baynes text and Helmut Wilhelm’s Eight Lectures on the I Ching. It’s thoroughly ‘vintage’ software (1996)… hm,… Read more »Princeton Multimedia I Ching on Ebay
The other day, after a series of readings circulating between hexagrams 58, 47, 48, 57, I noticed another little nugget of patterns within the Sequence of hexagrams. Hexagram 37 describes life inside the home, defined by its boundaries (37.1). Hexagram 38 is outside the walls: opposed, seeing differently, alien. Hexagram… Read more »Inside and outside
