The Yijing/ I Ching is the Change Classic; its friends often just call it by name, ‘Yi’, ‘Change’. The word spreads wide ripples of meaning: the cyclic, recurring changes represented in the regular structure and sequence of the hexagrams; the sudden changes captured by the moving lines. Yi represents change… Read more »Book of Changes
I’m enjoying reading Stephen Field’s Ancient Chinese Divination, especially the insight into the early understanding of qi and how it flows. I’m just reading his description of Form School fengshui. While its earliest written description is (in Yijing terms) relatively young (the Tang dynasty Book of Burial), the fundamental idea… Read more »Trigram topography?
Back when Eliana and I first started juggling ideas for Opening Space for Change, of course one of the first things I did was to ask Yi for a comment on the idea. Not for the business partnership side of things, but first of all for the whole idea of… Read more »The role of music in divination
I love those synchronicities that come as pure encouragement, like welcoming signposts saying, ‘Yes, this way.’ I was talking to Eliana, who’s joining with me to create the Opening Space for Change event in a few weeks’ time. I’d just been working on a reading for the podcast about how… Read more »Synchronicity at the Well
Well, I’m still getting the hang of my new microphone (I hope), and recovering some voice after the seasonal cold, and experimenting with recording without a script… not sure about the merits of that one… but anyway, here’s podcast 4. The question this time was about opening the channel for… Read more »Living Change I Ching podcast 4
Browsing Allan Lian’s blog, with a New Year post offering a Confucian perspective on self-cultivation, got me thinking. What is self-cultivation – where and how does this idea show up in the Yijing? Luckily, I don’t have far to look: my guiding principle for the year for Clarity, as given… Read more »Self-cultivation?
