Recent readings have given me a new application for Hexagram 54: the experience of relying on other people to work for me. The Marrying Maiden, poor little thing, moves into a world that’s several sizes too big for her, and has to feel her way into its relationships and possibilities.… Read more »Being the marrying maiden
Have a look at Cesca Diebschlag’s I Ching News blog. I’ve only just found my way there, and I’m delighted to discover excellent articles on Hexagrams 20, 22, 29, 5 and 16. I especially like what she has to say about 22, in the post entitled ‘Beautifying’.
Claire writes: “If a question is asked and there are no changing lines but the overall translation of the main Hexagram is favourable does this mean that the situation will never change? There are a couple websites which host free computer readings and although the answer to my questions may… Read more »No changing lines – no change?
I’ve just started reading Jean Shinoda Bolen’s Tao of Psychology. It’s a wonderful book. Not much writing about synchronicity really seems to ‘get it’, but this most assuredly does: “Synchronicity is the connecting principle… between our psyches and an external event, in which we feel an uncanny sense of inner… Read more »Synchronicity and the Tao
… that doesn’t exactly mean there’s a sudden lack of I Ching things to read. For instance… The ‘Memorizing the I Ching’ threads continue apace, moving through hexagram 26 and on to hexagram 27. I don’t know how much is being memorised along the way, but they’re full of good… Read more »I may have gone quiet, but…
My reading for this week is Hexagram 4, line 1: ‘Sending out the ignoramus, Fruitful to make use of punishing people, Fruitful to loosen fetters and shackles. Going on in this way is shameful.’ I think the way my brain is(n’t) working just now is a nice illustration of the… Read more »Brain fetters (and hexagram 4)
A client who’s working on my I Ching course had received Hexagram 35, line 1. In Stephen Karcher’s comments on the line, she found reference to ‘using a net’ and wondered what this meant. So – not unreasonably – she asked Yi what to make of the ‘net’.
