Sample Yijing readings
I’ve been thinking and divining about confidence in readings, and acting on readings, and being coached along the way by Yi into asking more lucid questions. Having the confidence to act on a reading, by itself, was no guide to anything. Reaching the right moment to act on a reading… Read more »One more question about readings and action
When I asked about getting the confidence to act on one’s understanding of a reading, Yi pointed out to me in its own inimitable way that this wasn’t a very valuable question to ask. One can get into trouble by having confidence as easily as by lacking it. So why… Read more »More about acting on I Ching readings
When I asked people their biggest challenge in working with the I Ching, so many said, in one form of words or another, that it had to do with confidence. Forming a question, casting a hexagram, even coming up with intelligent interpretations of the answer – these things might take… Read more »Asking the wrong question about confidence
Yi on Twitter – or, “three thousand year old oracle meets microblogging app” – or something. Hm. What’s Twitter? As far as I can make out, it’s a strange little hybrid of a blog and an instant messaging client: people post personal updates, thoughts of the moment and links to… Read more »Yi on Twitter
… when it says ‘mature people, good fortune,’ substituting ‘hyper-caffeinated headless chicken’ actually doesn’t work. As you probably know, I’m running an I Ching Class from April through June. Getting everything ready for this – the technical stuff, the class notes and reference materials, the private forum, the ways for… Read more »Note to self re-hexagram 7
I asked Yi what a New Year is, and learned that it’s ‘Sprouting’s Brightness Hidden’ – fertile creative potential, shrouded or maybe cocooned in darkness. And specifically, a New Year is like, ‘Pursuing a stag with no forester, Simply entering into the centre of the forest. A noble one reads… Read more »New Year reading moving lines
It’s the New Year. There are resolutions, fresh intentions, and a sense of finishing off one ‘segment’ of life and starting a new one. And my Inbox is filled fit to burst with offers, every one of which is the only thing I must have to ensure that 2008 is… Read more »What is New Year?
