Warning: this post is pure, unadulterated gleeful Yeekery. I’ve been reading about how the ancient Chinese bronze vessels were made. Here’s a fascinating pdf on the subject (right click and choose ‘save as’ to download), with images of the finished vessels and also the moulds used in the casting, and… Read more »Casting the Vessel
My reading for this past week was hexagram 4, Not Knowing, with no changing lines. I appreciate getting unchanging hexagrams: it seems to me that Yi’s making allowances for me, giving me just one simple thing to keep in mind. I take it as an invitation to reflect. The issue… Read more »Hexagram 4 and seeking meaning
You should know about Susan Piver’s Open Heart Project because it’s a beautiful gift to the world – and also because, every now and then, it provides intriguing little sparks of insight into hexagrams. Here’s Susan talking (in the video on the left) about non-attachment, in ways that make me… Read more »Non-attachment and Hexagram 25
That need Yi answers is for… ‘The Well. Moving the city, not moving the well. Without loss, without gain, They come and go, the well wells. Almost drawn the water, but the rope does not quite reach the water, Or breaking one’s clay jug, Pitfall.’ in the background as underlying… Read more »Basic human need Yi answers, part 6: line 4
(This post is part of an absurdly long series: The basic human need that Yi answers The basic human need Yi answers, part 2: the Well The basic human need Yi answers, part 3: the change The basic human need Yi answers, part 4: changing line 1 ) Moving on… Read more »The basic human need Yi answers, part 5: changing line 2
As I’ve mentioned a few times before, I asked Yi what the basic human need is that it answers, and it responded with Hexagram 49, Radical Change, moving at lines 1, 2 and 4 to Hexagram 48, the Well. Here (at last!) are that reading’s moving line texts: ‘Bound with… Read more »The basic human need Yi answers, part 4: changing line 1
I’ve never found Hexagram 56 particularly inspiring. (I wasn’t over the moon last December to receive it as my primary hexagram for this year.) Travelling means you’re ‘passing through’; that wherever you are, it’s not where you belong, and there’s not so much you can do there. Its trigrams suggest… Read more »Travelling: the light of being here
