The second line of Hexagram 11 generates some of the most strangely varied translations. Here are two from the same book – John Minford’s I Ching, which contains two incarnations of the Yi, as ‘Book of Wisdom’ and ‘Bronze Age Oracle’: ‘Embrace the wilderness, ford the river. Do not forsake… Read more »Fording the river: Hexagram 11, line 2
Some of the Yi’s most interesting phrases come in threes. The advice not to chase what’s lost, for instance, or ‘not robbers, marital allies’. This is another of those: ‘the moon is almost full’. ‘Already rained, already come to rest.Honour the power it carries.The wife’s constancy brings danger,The moon is… Read more »The moon almost full
This is a challenge I set for Change Circle members in the first week of our Imagery Class: to find a way to respond to a reading without interpreting it. The idea is to create a space where we can interact with all the layers and facets of the Yi’s… Read more »Not interpreting the I Ching
This isn’t one of those posts where I explore many different experts’ translations and interpretations of a line. Instead, it’s just things I’ve learned from a combination of reading experiences and a line pathway. What’s a line pathway? A line pathway is what LiSe calls ‘mirrors’: a group of four… Read more »Walking round the pathway of 42.6
There are a few websites without which this one would be only a pale shadow of itself. Here are four huge thank yous… Hermetica.info This is Bradford Hatcher’s site, and contains much of his life’s work – work that Yi described better than I can. The individual help and support… Read more »Clarity: the acknowledgements section
Just for fun… I Ching Community discussion
On 26th April, 2000, I registered the domain name onlineClarity.co.uk. (Back then, adding ‘online’ to your business name showed you were really up-to-the-minute with the interwebs. Or something.) So I think that makes today Clarity’s 21st birthday. I want to celebrate by doing more of what Clarity’s been doing for… Read more »Happy Birthday, Clarity
