Here is a good, blunt article that explains why You Cannot Have It All: because choice you make for something is by implication a choice against something else. I linked to this article because it’s a clear statement of something we need to be aware of whenever Hexagram 43 shows… Read more »Hexagram 43 and decision
Naturally, lately, I’ve wanted to ask the oracle about my Mum’s prognosis. I’ve done so a couple of times, and on each occasion I’ve received an unchanging hexagram that gave me a very straight, short-term answer. But although there are times when uncertainty and the need to know just overwhelms… Read more »One clasp of the hands
Ian wrote to ask me: “How can an English-speaking science graduate link to I Ching?” Nice question, thanks! The ‘English-speaking’ part is relatively easy: use a couple of distinctively different, good translations. Don’t be misled by the preoccupations of mad natural linguists (like this one) into believing you have to… Read more »I Ching for scientists
Someone wrote to ask what I think of the Wilhelm/Baynes translation. I have mixed feelings about it. For a lot of people, I know, asking ‘what do you think of Wilhelm/Baynes?’ is much the same as asking, ‘What do you think of the Bible?’ This is the edition the great… Read more »Thoughts on Wilhelm/Baynes
There are some beautiful new papers at Denis Mair’s Yijing Poetics site. I’m currently engrossed in ‘Maybe a daisy chain’, a new story woven from the Sequence of hexagrams. What I find most remarkable – and liberating – about this is how utterly different it is from the story I… Read more »New Yijing poetics
For some weeks now, there’s been a notice up on my readings order page saying ‘I’m away from work because of family health problems.’ I’m sorry to say that I still am. It’s my Mum who’s unwell: she was in hospital when I first put the notice up; then she… Read more »Still no readings, sorry
Imagine for a moment that you are a sage, and I have a question for you: “Will I ever be at the summit of Everest?” I’d guess that the first words out of your mouth are a question – or several: “Well, do you want to climb Everest?” “Have you… Read more »The Mount Everest question
