And I thought I wrote about trigrams in the Sequence. Heh. Here’s Frank Kegan doing a very complete and insightful job of it. He sees the Sequence in groups of ten (which I’ve found works startlingly well – you might think that more patterns would emerge if you took it… Read more »The Sequence in trigrams – and decades
… as a source of political insight. Suzi Gablik thought it a good source. (She asked about the meaning of the 9/11 attacks and received 15.6.) Her correspondent reacted as if she’d committed blasphemy against the jealous divinity of social science, or something. And Virgil the alligator commented on all… Read more »A dialogue on the I Ching
Someone emailed me recently to say that the written instructions for the yarrow method were too complex, and was there a video she could watch? I said no, sorry, and suggested that if she took it step by step a few times she’d soon get into the rhythm of the… Read more »Yarrow stalk video
Some hexagrams – like 29 – seem to derive much of their meaning from their component trigrams. Some – like 27 – seem to derive it in the first place from the picture made by the lines themselves. Hexagram 27 looks like jaws; Hexagram 21 looks as though an obstacle’s… Read more »Hexagrams as pictures
There’s a brand new Spanish-speaking I Ching forum available. Like any brand new forum, ‘no hay mensajes’ for the most part so far, but it’ll pick up momentum soon. And Olivia Cattedra has just brought out a new book, Oraculo Y Sabuduria Guia Para El Estudio del I Ching. For… Read more »I Ching news for Spanish speakers
I’ve written about Lorena Moore’s site before – her blog is a refuge for anyone interested in the stuff our world’s made of. Now she’s completed her lichen oracle, and you can browse or consult with it online. I’ve a feeling that oracles, made last month or a few millennia… Read more »Lichen Oracle
Plenty of online I Ching readings simulate the yarrow stalk probabilities, including those at this site. But here’s a nice, quick-loading I Ching reading that simulates the process itself of dividing the stalks. Perhaps it’ll encourage people to pick up the real thing.
