I’ ve been wondering and delighting in this reading for a year now – it seems a good time to share it. I had a Christian upbringing, and as I started reflecting for myself, I never quite saw the point of the Incarnation. God is here, of course – where… Read more »Christmas I Ching
Round about this time of year, I’ve usually given subscribers a pdf anthology of newsletter articles from the last year’s issues. Which makes some kind of sense when those articles are scattered through an archive of newsletters, but a bit less sense (I think) when you can go straight to… Read more »The story of Gun and Yu
Looking up the ‘Pace of Yu’ on Google, I found a link to a fascinating-looking paper on ‘The transformations of Yu the Great in Daoist myth and ritual’. But the paper itself wasn’t available – only the html version Google had generated of it. So I suggest saving a copy… Read more »Last chance to see?
I just came across a ‘Tao Calendar’ for 2006, with photography from Jane English (the same one who makes the yarrow stalks) and text from the Daodejing and Zhuangzi. Looks like there is still time to order it before Christmas in the US though sadly not in the UK. Maybe… Read more »Tao calendar
Here’s a small idea for keeping readings in mind. Choose a friend (carefully!), share your reading with them – or share its core message with them, if they don’t know the I Ching – and ask them to remind you of it whenever they think you need it. I’ve just… Read more »I Ching accountability
Lately, I’ve been exploring ways to immerse myself in readings more completely – and I Ching poetry seems to be a way to do that. Of course the book is poetry itself, but the attempts I know of to translate it directly into rhyme basically reduce it to jingles. I… Read more »I Ching Poetry
This started out as an audio recording I made while I was washing up one night and just felt like ranting aloud. Unfortunately this means the sound is punctuated and/or drowned out entirely by assorted splashings and clashings of pans. I would re-record it – except that I haven’t altogether… Read more »Orchestral I Ching
