A slower reading
Here’s a gentle exploration of Hexagram 22, Beauty, in which we work our way round to understanding! Kim asked ‘What’s happening?’ – looking for a picture of the greater pattern of her life. I think Yi handed her the paintbrush…
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18, Corruption, as relating hexagram
Dealing with Corruption Hexagram 18 is gu 蠱, ‘corruption’: the dictionary tells us its name means snake venom, poisonous insects, bad air and dark magic. A more specific early meaning is revealed in its moving lines: ‘the ancestral father’s corruption,’ ‘the ancestral mother’s corruption’. These are echoes of ancient oracle… Read more »18, Corruption, as relating hexagram
Family constellations
This month’s podcast features one of those readings where Yi really takes your breath away: ‘How beneficial would it be for me to join the next course on family constellations?’ Yi’s response: Hexagram 18, Corruption, changing at lines 2, 3, 4 and 6 to 16, Enthusiasm. changing to Lux (as… Read more »Family constellations
Losses
This is another post about the differences between hexagrams: this time, Hexagrams 23, Stripping Away, and 41, Decreasing. Both are about loss, about ending up with less, and – given human nature – we tend not to be pleased to receive either one. But how are they different? Names and… Read more »Losses
Beautiful feet
As you might have guessed from the title of this episode, it’s about a reading with Hexagram 22, Beauty, changing at line 1 to 52, Stilling: changing to It was all about becoming imperfectly visible – which the reading’s owner has just begun to do on her Youtube channel… https://livingchange.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/episode48.mp3
Some Yijing origins
There’s more than one story of the Yi’s origins… Mythical origins The story begins in the 29th century BCE with Fuxi, China’s first emperor, who may have had the body of a serpent. It was through his insight that the trigrams were discovered, and people could begin to understand their… Read more »Some Yijing origins
Hiding Light
An annual reading, this time: the first thing Maria does on her birthday is to sit down and ask to be shown a reading for the coming year. Here’s hers for 2023-24: Hexagram 36, Brightness Hiding, with no changing lines. Since this was an unchanging reading, we had the time… Read more »Hiding Light