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Stephen Karcher: Shuogua

The Shuogua, ‘explanation of the gua’, is the Yijing’s 8th Wing. It’s in three parts: the first is an origin story of how the sages made the Yi from first principles; the remaining two describe the characteristics of the individual trigrams. You’ll occasionally find references to these characteristics in Wilhelm’s… Read more »Stephen Karcher: Shuogua

Hermetica I Ching: new edition

At http://www.hermetica.info, you’ll find a new edition of possibly the best Yijing resource on the web. Bradford Hatcher’s Book of Changes includes a ‘Matrix’ translation (a parallel text of Chinese and English), books on history and structure, and a complete translation with in-depth, thought-provoking commentary – and for some unfathomable… Read more »Hermetica I Ching: new edition

I Ching workshop on Wednesday

Mick Frankel, a man of much I Ching wisdom and good sense, will be giving an introductory workshop on the I Ching at 8pm this Wednesday (7th March). He says: My workshop, “An Introduction to the I Ching” will be at 20:00 next Wednesday, 7th March at the Phoenix Rising… Read more »I Ching workshop on Wednesday

Bede Griffiths on the Abyss

I’ve started re-reading Bede Griffiths, Return to the Centre, a wonderful book I first attempted to understand when I was 16. This time through, I have help. I think of hexagram 29, the Repeating Chasm, as a dark place of bottomless depths. Yi talks of ‘holding fast your heart’ here,… Read more »Bede Griffiths on the Abyss

Believe Harmen

Believe me – Harmen’s Dagboek A good, thought-provoking post from Harmen. Basically he’s pointing out that Yijing readings work within a framework of personal beliefs. This is true of what methods you know and find significant (nuclear hexagrams or not, for instance). I think it can also be true of… Read more »Believe Harmen