‘DIY’ tips for I Ching divination
ROQs, as you may know if you came to June’s ‘Connecting with Imagery’ workshop, are Really Obvious Questions. They’re the simplest, most child-like questions you can think of: what’s this? what do you do with one? what’s it like? These are the key to getting unstuck at pretty much any stage… Read more »The joy of ROQs and making sense
Following up on my last, long post with the example reading, I thought it might help to share this tiny excerpt from Yijing Foundations, where I explain how to imagine the structure of a reading without falling into the trap of pigeon-holing the second hexagram as ‘future’: Sign up for… Read more »How I imagine primary and relating
Some 11 years ago (!) I wrote about people telling me they didn’t have enough time for the I Ching, and the gifts of time it offers. Well… we haven’t got noticeably less busy since 2008, and I still hear this quite often. What distresses me most are the people… Read more »Still not enough time for the I Ching
About getting stuck… Lately, I’ve been writing a series of sunny posts about how Yi helps: how it brings understanding and insight, of yourself as well as other people; how it triggers little inner shifts that can change your life; the odd magic of everything falling into place. And… let’s… Read more »Why we get stuck on I Ching readings
Writing lately about ways Yi helps reminded me of possibly my favourite chapter of the Dazhuan (the ‘Great Treatise’, 5th and 6th Wings of the Yijing): ‘Yi is a document that should not be set at a distance. Its dao is ever-changing, alternating and moving without rest, flowing through the six… Read more »Like a parent?
Yi helps in the ways we need… I’ve been thinking about ways Yi helps, and it occurs to me that different ways will be important to different people, or at different times of life. An obvious example: as a business owner, my days are full of ‘What if I try… Read more »How Yi helps with relationships
A Resonance Journal retrospective Over four years ago now, we first brought out the Resonance Journal: software to keep a journal both of your Yijing readings and also of dreams, synchronicities and simple daily experience, and to reveal and explore how all these things connect and resonate together. We’ve come… Read more »An eighth reason to keep a Yijing journal
