The banner of qian – from Harmen
Harmen’s gone back to the first character of the Zhouyi and offers the theory that it originally depicted a banner. As always with Harmen, very interesting reading! The banner of ‘qian’ – Harmen’s Dagboek
Interpreting hexagrams
Comments on whole hexagrams, individual lines and so on
Hexagram 36 as a Daoist strategy
Hexagram 36, Brightness Hiding or Brightness Injured, can certainly be a danger-signal in a reading: hide your light, risk of injury ahead. But it is also a postive strategy, as this Deng Ming-Dao quotation from Donna Woodka’s Changing Places blog shows. (One to subscribe to, I think.) It also shows… Read more »Hexagram 36 as a Daoist strategy
‘Favourable to have somewhere to go’ in hexagram 24
Hexagram 23 is the Pair of 24, Returning, which Nelson asked about. Unlike Stripping Away, the Judgement of Returning concludes that there is harvest in having a direction to go.
This could get particularly confusing, as the Daxiang (the Image) says that this is time to stay home and most definitely not tour the border regions. But I think this is is a snapshot of just one stage in a whole cycle described by hexagram 24 – and that ‘having a direction to go’ fits naturally within the broader context.
‘Favourable to have somewhere to go’
From Nelson:
“Under #24 it says, favorable to have somewhere to go. What does this mean?”
ICC: Cradles
I Ching Community Discussion Forum: Cradles
Now at last I understand what Hexagram 19, Nearing, can have to do with mourning. This is from LiSe’s post to this thread:
Yi blog riches
Two pieces of excellent news for ‘Yi people’:
Steve Marshall is updating his blog again at http://www.biroco.com/journal.htm. On April 2nd (scroll down!) he wrote about hexagram 25, line 2 – something I’ve been wondering and speculating on for years.
A novel view of hexagram 29, line 4
‘A cup, a drink, and a plate,
Using earthenware,
Letting them in on ropes from the window.
In the end, no mistake.’
Someone is confined in the Pit – someone reaches them in simple ways. I’ve seen this often enough as advice on how to keep a relationship alive through impossible times… the connection always felt like the one ray of light. But now I have a reading that makes me see an alternative perspective.