The ways you can sign up for things here at the moment are in something of a muddle. You might have signed up for the ‘Answers’ newsletter, where I talk about the latest blog posts in a twice-monthly email. Maybe you got the free I Ching course at the same… Read more »Changes to the email newsletters
Hexagram 18, Corruption, demands that we actively engage with how things are. And things are a mess: there are ‘negative patterns’ playing themselves out, or in other words the same old bad things keep on happening.
That’s how the third line of Hexagram 6, Arguing, begins: ‘Eating ancient de. Constancy: danger. In the end, good fortune. Maybe following king’s business, No accomplishment.’ It’s unusual for Yi to talk in abstract imagery in this way – eating not food, but de. De, as in Daodejing, is virtue,… Read more »Eating ancient de?
I’ve been hearing from quite a few people lately who are wondering what to do when they’re consulting the I Ching, and their coins behave oddly. What if one rolls away? What if it ends up under the furniture? Or propped up against something so it doesn’t land flat? Of… Read more »I Ching coins questions
After my last post with its cautionary tale, it’s good to be able to tell you that the new site design will go live this month. So this would be a space to watch. 😉 Meanwhile, here’s a preview of the new navigation: The real thing is altogether bigger, brighter… Read more »Preview of the new design
One of the trickier aspects of interpreting an I Ching reading has to be working out what scale the oracle’s using. By which I mean, if it says ‘good fortune’, is that a lottery win or a pot of jam in the raffle (for instance)? Does ‘misfortune’ mean mild inconvenience,… Read more »Grasping the scale of an I Ching reading
Crispy hexagrams – of course. Superb idea. “In 3,000 years, divination never tasted so good!”
