I Ching Community: Yes – No answers
A very interesting question, this: can Yi answer ‘yes’ or ‘no’? Is it a good idea to ask ‘yes’/’no’ questions? If not, why not? I Ching Community: Yes – No answers
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Chu Hsi and Divination
Joseph Adler’s fascinating article, Chu Hsi and Divination, is available free online. This small excerpt will show why I’m recommending it: After one had ascertained the intended meaning, according to Chu, a certain subjective involvement with the text is necessary for full understanding. One must extend one’s mind into the… Read more »Chu Hsi and Divination
I Ching Community : Hexagram 57 ~ What’s it all about?
I Ching Community Discussion Forum: Hex 57 ~ What’s it all about? A good variety of insights into a very elusive hexagram.
Divination in sub-Saharan Africa
John Pemberton: Divination in sub-Saharan Africa Fascinating reading on a range of ancient, living forms of divination – and clear insights, too, into what divination is all about. This is from the first page: Whatever the form, all divinatory practices reveal the human quest for a larger context of meaning,… Read more »Divination in sub-Saharan Africa
Use of the I Ching in the Analytic Setting
Use of the I Ching in the Analytic Setting An intelligent, in-depth article about the uses of the I Ching in Jungian analysis. There are good sections here on areas where the I Ching can help (relationships, depression, major decisions, and psychoanalytic training programmes!), and some clear examples of what… Read more »Use of the I Ching in the Analytic Setting
The banner of qian – from Harmen
Harmen’s gone back to the first character of the Zhouyi and offers the theory that it originally depicted a banner. As always with Harmen, very interesting reading! The banner of ‘qian’ – Harmen’s Dagboek
Hexagram 36 as a Daoist strategy
Hexagram 36, Brightness Hiding or Brightness Injured, can certainly be a danger-signal in a reading: hide your light, risk of injury ahead. But it is also a postive strategy, as this Deng Ming-Dao quotation from Donna Woodka’s Changing Places blog shows. (One to subscribe to, I think.) It also shows… Read more »Hexagram 36 as a Daoist strategy