‘DIY’ tips for I Ching divination
It’s not uncommon to have the experience of a reading confirming what you already know – even if you hadn’t quite acknowledged that you knew it. But what when the reading simply goes against what you feel is right? You’re drawn to do something, you’re excited about doing it, your intention’s taking… Read more »You vs Yi? What if the reading feels wrong?
I spend a lot of time exploring and writing about the endless depths of Yijing readings. There are those little seeds of meaning hidden in the etymology of individual characters, the long resonances across the structure of the Sequence, the pictures to be painted with trigrams and stories to tell… Read more »Just one thing
Last March I explained how I don’t know the first thing about Yi (namely, why these line-patterns mean these words). I’m happy to report that I still don’t, and I’m still lit up with curiosity and fascination for this strange and beautiful old creature we call Yi – and I think… Read more »Four things I learned about Yi last year
Here’s an excellent article I stumbled across about the real meaning of synchronicity: Synchronicity and the mind of God: unlocking the mystery of Carl Jung’s “meaningful coincidence”. A quotation (among many I could have chosen): “The universe is a reflection of an underlying spiritual reality; all phenomena express the deeper… Read more »The real meaning of synchronicity
Reading a book about healing, I came across two diagrams of the relationships between external events and emotional response. The first, very simple, diagram, showed our common misconception. It had two boxes, one for ‘external events’ and one for ’emotional response’, and an arrow pointing from events to response. That’s… Read more »Where readings happen
(Or – how I learned that while there are problems inherent in asking for a prediction, there are even more problems with trying to make rules about what kind of question is best.) The well-known problems with asking for a prediction It’s not what we want to know Often, wanting… Read more »I just want to know if it’s going to happen
The changing lines Continuing from my previous post: Yi’s answer to ‘How to use the Sequence in readings?’, 25.4.6 to 3… 25.4: ´There can be constancy. No mistake.´ Line 4 is just across the threshold between inner and outer; it’s just stepped out into the world. So – in any… Read more »Using the Sequence in readings, part 2
