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The basic human need Yi answers, part 4: changing line 1

This entry is part 4 of 6 in the series The need Yi answers: 49.1.2.4 to 48

As I’ve mentioned a few times before, I asked Yi what the basic human need is that it answers, and it responded with Hexagram 49, Radical Change, moving at lines 1, 2 and 4 to Hexagram 48, the Well. Here (at last!) are that reading’s moving line texts: ‘Bound with… Read more »The basic human need Yi answers, part 4: changing line 1

The basic human need Yi answers, part 3: the change

This entry is part 3 of 6 in the series The need Yi answers: 49.1.2.4 to 48

This is a follow-up post from these two, about a reading. (And there will be more to come: a single post covering three lines, change patterns and speculations about trigram changes would have been ridiculously long.) Thought in passing… Talking to people in the comments on those posts about personal… Read more »The basic human need Yi answers, part 3: the change

The basic human need Yi answers, part 2: the Well

This entry is part 2 of 6 in the series The need Yi answers: 49.1.2.4 to 48

My last post but one was about a reading from years ago, about the human need the Yijing answers. Yi says this is the need for Radical Change, Hexagram 49, changing to Hexagram 48, the Well. Readings with adjoining hexagrams from the Sequence have a particular resonance, I think. In… Read more »The basic human need Yi answers, part 2: the Well