I’m hosting a free call today – at 7pm UK time, 11am Pacific (more timezones here) – introducing and exploring divination and the I Ching.
The call will include…
- “What’s divination for?” – how you can use it to make a difference in your own experience
- three tips for creative questioning
- an introduction to the I Ching
- and a live ‘bite-sized’ experience of divination with no knowledge required at all
It’ll be a wide-ranging, enjoyable introduction that helps to set divination and oracles in the broader context of everyday life (as where else would they belong, anyway?). No technical knowledge of the I Ching is needed.
Even if you’re already quite familiar with the I Ching and/or other oracles, I think you’ll find the questions asked on the call an interesting, challenging way to revisit the fundamentals. Also, if you have friends and relatives who don’t really ‘get’ your interest in the I Ching, please do invite them to come. This should at least dispel a few misconceptions, and maybe even awaken their own interest.
Here’s the call handout in pdf format; it’s a mix of written content and spaces for you to fill in with your own ideas and inspirations during the call. You could print it out for this, or download it in editable rtf format that should open in any word-processing program.
To join the call by phone, call (00 1) 801-717-1157 and enter the Conference ID 447495#.
To join it online – no phone bill, and you can still type in your questions/comments during the call – visit this page.
As a result of the google search from the call tonight – I found the most COOL bit for my research :-)…. This is from that icon of the Goddess that said: “it’s time to do more research”…
“How many consonants did Hebrew have?
This is a trick question. The answer depends on what you mean by a consonant: spoken or written. Today everybody knows we count 22 letters in the Hebrew alphabet. But everybody knows, and forgets, that it has 23 consonants: original ?in is still with us. Sorry.
Writing is the only way we can learn what the ancients said, but writing is not language. And as writing reveals, it always conceals something of what it transmits.
There’s no better example of this than the way writing masks the sounds of speech even as it immortalizes them. Since the 19th century, scholars have argued that there were actually 25 sounds in ancient Hebrew and Aramaic: it has been long noted–and best argued by Joshua Blau–that the Septuagint distinguished original ?ayin and ?a in many place names and other transliterations. During the 80’s, Richard Steiner first realized that there was an entire Aramean religious liturgy–really a kind of alternate-universe Hebrew Bible, including a pagan version of Psalm 20 with Baal instead of the Lord, and mourning for an Exile (with the Assyrians around, lots of people got exiled), transcribed into Demotic in Egypt, that distinguished these two consonants.”
Of course, I know that the search for my lover (yes I know where my mother is :-)… is inside of me… I asked for the sake of change… getting some great leads. Thanks, XO E
I’m glad the search led you to serendipitous places! Thanks for sharing your results. And it’s interesting how the response changed when you started asking about the first step – the phone (in other words, call…) and the goddess.