There are several new I Ching books available that I don’t have time to review just now. But still, the least I can do is pass on the news. So… The first is from Ewald Berkers of EclecticEnergies. You can download a copy of his translation and commentary, as used… Read more »New I Ching books
You know, for a venerable Chinese institution, Yi gets about a bit. I’ve personally read for people from the US, Canada, South America, UK, Austria, Portugal, India, Israel, New Zealand, Australia, Singapore and Malaysia, just to name the ones I can remember for now. And now look: Yi has its… Read more »Yi’s lives
When did you last encounter a Yijing translation where the introduction engendered such curiosity that you were itching to read it through? Quite. I’m sure this isn’t supposed to happen, but with the Chameleon Book, Freeman Crouch’s translation, I find it does. He reads the Yijing as a historical document,… Read more »The Chameleon Book
Treading the tiger’s tail
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
