Sample Yijing readings
Well, I’m nicely immersed in all things Christmassy, from tree lights and outings and wrapping paper to the strange dearth of Brussels sprouts in the supermarkets. (Is there a national shortage? Why did nobody tell us?) I fetched my brother over on the 21st, and I’ll take him back on… Read more »De-husking
Yesterday was my birthday, and – as I always do – I cast a reading asking for guidance for the coming year. I’d just spent a couple of days reviewing the previous year: the plans I’d had, goals I’d set… and forgotten all about, or missed utterly… . It wasn’t… Read more »Hexagram 5: Waiting and Intending
I asked, “What is it about Yi that makes it precious as a spiritual ‘tool’?” And received Hexagram 15, Integrity, with no changing lines: This is one of those answers that gives me an immediate glow of recognition – and then unwraps like a gift, with more and more shining… Read more »The Jewel of Yi
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.
My husband and I go out on the back lawn when the weather’s good enough, and play badminton. Let’s see… David’s six feet tall, lean and wiry and a natural athlete; I’m five foot two, about two stone overweight, and hopelessly uncoordinated – you know the one who can’t even… Read more »The I Ching and badminton
One of the trickier aspects of interpreting an I Ching reading has to be working out what scale the oracle’s using. By which I mean, if it says ‘good fortune’, is that a lottery win or a pot of jam in the raffle (for instance)? Does ‘misfortune’ mean mild inconvenience,… Read more »Grasping the scale of an I Ching reading
My personal ‘hexagram for the week’: 23, unchanging. Eek. Not so long ago, this wouldn’t have bothered me in the least. I know many people are nervous of the ‘bad’ hexagrams and anticipate disasters whenever they receive hexagrams 23, 44 or 12 (the three most often labelled as ‘bad’). I’ve… Read more »Hexagram 23? Now what?
