Hexagram 34 is Great Vigour – or Power, or Strength. The old character shows a scholar, or an impressive man, and half the character for ‘tree’. It means robust, powerful, in the prime of life. Combined with the character for ‘great’ – a man standing straight – this gives a… Read more »Hexagram 34: Great Vigour
The other day, I responded to a client’s I Ching Course assignment about a reading with five moving lines. Since I’m not a fan of systems that reduce the number of moving lines (I reckon that if your answer were contained in a single moving line, you’d have received just… Read more »The lines that don’t change
I was writing on Saturday about a reading kindly shared by Eric Bryant of I Ching Insights (‘petrosianii‘ here at Clarity). He asked about the effect of purchasing some nicotine-free cigarettes as an aid to giving up smoking; he received first Hexagram 25 moving to 41, and then Hexagram 37… Read more »More steps when stuck
Over at his ‘I Ching Insights‘ blog, Eric Bryant’s doing sterling work writing up the whole process of a reading: formulating the question, and interpreting the answer. And in the process, he’s run into an experience that’s pretty familiar to anyone who’s ever talked with the oracle: he’s got stuck… Read more »Steps when stuck
I was just listening to a recording of a call from a couple of years ago, where I suggested that divination was like becoming a ‘cello. Then I stopped and asked if anyone had questions, and a nice participant told me that I’d just lost him with that last bit.… Read more »How divination is like being a cello
You can learn a lot about moving lines in the Yijing by looking at where they’re headed – that is, the hexagram that would be generated if this line alone were changing. Arguing doesn’t lead to good fortune – unless it’s done in an awareness of being ‘Not Yet Across’.… Read more »Changing lines in groups
Paul Guérin, also known as ‘confucius’ in the I Ching Community, is offering these drawings of the old forms of the sixty-four hexagram names: The images are drawn in Chinese ink on rice paper, and they’re available for all of $20, including postage anywhere in the world, only to Clarity… Read more »Hexagram artwork for sale –
