A practical reading
Just a small example of the kind of day-to-day help Yi provides for the asking. Not earth-shattering, just solid common sense (which, as my Mum’s Mum used to say, isn’t common) and good advice.
Sample Yijing readings
Just a small example of the kind of day-to-day help Yi provides for the asking. Not earth-shattering, just solid common sense (which, as my Mum’s Mum used to say, isn’t common) and good advice.
The short version, in case you don’t have eight minutes to listen to the audio: we had an informal webinar sharing readings; it was a success; people enjoyed it. I’ll be running more of these, and they’ll still be free. And if you want to be sure of hearing about them in advance, make sure your email address is on the notification list by sending a blank email to gatherings at onlineClarity.co.uk. (Replace the ‘at’ with ‘@’ and miss out the spaces, of course.)
Click the ‘play’ button below for the longer version, where I talk about a couple of I Ching readings I did about this.
Sam Crane has a great Taoist blog, the Useless Tree, where he’s branching out into I Ching divination – it looks as though he’s making ‘Friday I Ching blogging’ a regular thing. At the beginning of August, he asked: Will the six party talks on North Korea succeed? Yi says:… Read more »I Ching on international politics
Something I just tried, that seems to work quite well: putting a question to Yi, reflecting on the answer – and drawing a single tarot card as a cue – or a clue – to ways to think about it. Asking what I needed to reflect on about helping more… Read more »I Ching and tarot together
One other reading I did about the latest HP book (and I do promise that the next blog entry will be about something different)…
…was about where Snape stands at the end.
OK…
Spoiler warnings here!!
I’ve been talking with Yi about the situation at the very end of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, so if you don’t want to know what that situation is before you finish reading the book, please go and read something else now.
I dropped into Oxford today on the way home from a friend’s, and found my way into Blackwell’s – the university bookshop. And down to the Chinese history section, where I came across an intimidating-looking tome called To become a god: cosmology, sacrifice and self-divinisation in Early China. And with about 7 minutes to closing time, took it over to the desk to find out what it cost. £17. Hmmm. On the one hand the chapter headings are fascinating: ‘Transforming the spirits: sacrifice in the Shang’; ‘A moral cosmos: Zhou sacrifice and the Mandate of Heaven’; ‘Spirits within humans: the issue of shamanism in early China and early Greece.’ On the other hand, these are 300 very dense and scholarly pages, and what are my chances of getting through them without getting lost?