The other day, after a series of readings circulating between hexagrams 58, 47, 48, 57, I noticed another little nugget of patterns within the Sequence of hexagrams. Hexagram 37 describes life inside the home, defined by its boundaries (37.1). Hexagram 38 is outside the walls: opposed, seeing differently, alien. Hexagram… Read more »Inside and outside
I had a lovely day out yesterday, visiting a friend. She left me at the station for the return journey – and I found the train was delayed, so I’d have an extra hour or so of travel. Happily even this very modest-sized station had its own modest-sized shop, with… Read more »Coincidence
There’s a brand new Spanish-speaking I Ching forum available. Like any brand new forum, ‘no hay mensajes’ for the most part so far, but it’ll pick up momentum soon. And Olivia Cattedra has just brought out a new book, Oraculo Y Sabuduria Guia Para El Estudio del I Ching. For… Read more »I Ching news for Spanish speakers
In The Geography of Thought – a fascinating book about the differences between modern Eastern and Western ways of thought – I learned that, “The combative, rhetorical form is … absent from Asian law. In Asia the law does not consist, as it does in the West for the most… Read more »Hexagram 6 and the Geography of Thought
Plenty of online I Ching readings simulate the yarrow stalk probabilities, including those at this site. But here’s a nice, quick-loading I Ching reading that simulates the process itself of dividing the stalks. Perhaps it’ll encourage people to pick up the real thing.
I asked Yi what a New Year is, and learned that it’s ‘Sprouting’s Brightness Hidden’ – fertile creative potential, shrouded or maybe cocooned in darkness. And specifically, a New Year is like, ‘Pursuing a stag with no forester, Simply entering into the centre of the forest. A noble one reads… Read more »New Year reading moving lines
I can’t think of anything to say about this.
