‘DIY’ tips for I Ching divination
As someone working with an oracle that’s been creating itself for a few thousand years, I’m fascinated when I get a chance to see the beginnings of the process. Here are two posts from an artist, Lorena Moore, to whom it comes very naturally to create her own, with quartz crystals or from lichen.
Two things came together to make this post: first, what I’ve been learning from people telling me how they work with an oracle; secondly, a nice, sensible article from Charles Burke about decision making (sadly no longer available online). The article gave intelligent advice, some of which you may have… Read more »How divination transforms decision-making
For some years, I’ve been ‘drumming’ the I Ching from time to time. Not properly or skillfully, generally just on the nearest tabletop. I take a yang line as a single beat, and a yin line as two half beats, and set out through the Sequence in compound duple (six… Read more »Drumming the I Ching
Here’s a story I’ve heard, with variations, several times; “The I Ching? Yes, I did try that when I was in college… yes, it was fascinating, I’d almost forgotten… These days? I draw a card, maybe tarot, maybe another oracle deck, and look up the meaning in the book. I… Read more »It takes too long!
How to be really awake, casting hexagrams? How to stay aware of what we’re doing, not slip into auto-pilot from the force of long habit?
intuition is an immediate perception. Analysis brings you to a conclusion step by step; intuition happens straight away. I Ching interpretation involves a mixture of intuition and analysis (which in turn creates more food for the intuition), but it all hangs on a single moment of intuition, when you perceive the connection between question and answer.
Especially when you’re getting started with the I Ching, it can be hard to know what to ask – or what you can ask – or hard to put your question into words. Hence the ‘Suggested questions’ page here, which offers ideas for questions on anything from relationships with your… Read more »New for members: Question Guide as pdf
