Every hexagram can be said to have a ‘nuclear hexagram’, formed by taking its inner lines and ‘unfolding’ them. From the original hexagram’s lines 123,456, you build a new hexagram with 234,345. The effect is like a seed germinating, and the nuclear hexagram’s often interpreted as a latent potential within… Read more »The family of Hexagram 37
Jane Schorre and Carrin Dunne, authors of the excellent Yijing Wondering and Wandering, have launched a new site where they’re starting to put the book online. Thus far there’s only the preface and a few pages of introduction, but they plan to scan in the whole work. Visit their site,… Read more »Yijing Wondering and Wandering online
After a week of ‘Nearing Earth’ (19.1.2 to 2, my personal reading for the week), I’m very happy to find this Samhain full moon reading from Peter at Fireraven tarot
Not too familiar with the Chinese names of the hexagrams? Try iPlayGua. Move falling trigram blocks from side to side with the arrow keys before they land; position them to create the hexagrams listed – only by Chinese character, no pinyin, no numbers, no English! – underneath. It’s tetris with… Read more »Hexagram game
In a comment to my report on her work, Judy posted the reading from her first I Ching class for prisoners. I’m pasting her message and my response in here, so it’s on the front page for a while. Comments and insights very welcome. From Judy: “I would like to… Read more »Hexagram 63 and Change in prison
Hexagram 25, line 3:
‘The calamity of Without Entanglement.
Someone tethered a cow.
Nomads’ gain,
City people’s calamity.’
here is a brand new Spanish I Ching site. It offers courses, consultations, articles on the basics (coins, yarrow) and not-so-basics, and a forum.
