of divination websites and books
I want to review Larry Schulz’ The Weaving Maiden’s Mystery, only I’m not at all sure where to start. There’s his theory of the Sequence of Hexagrams, starting from the premise that hexagrams are diagrams of weaving patterns, and the logic of their sequence derives from the logic of weaving.… Read more »Larry Schulz, ‘The Weaving Maiden’s Mystery’
Alberto Ramon has been developing his approach to Yijing readings for many years now, and recently published a new book: Conversations with the I Ching. Its subtitle: ‘An intuitive approach to understanding the answers, with 85 explained readings.’ I’m finding it a worthwhile read. What I like about this book The Yi… Read more »Alberto Ramon, ‘Conversations with the I Ching’
Short review Don’t buy this one. Buy Minford and Redmond instead – or save up for Field, which I feel is worth its somewhat eye-watering price. Longer review Here’s the publisher’s blurb for Paul Fendos’ new I Ching: ‘The Book of Changes: A Modern Adaptation and Interpretation attempts to breathe… Read more »Paul Fendos ‘Book of Changes’ review
I’ve treated myself to another new Yi book – Geoffrey Redmond’s I Ching (Book of Changes) – a critical translation of the ancient text – and it got me thinking about the different aspects of the book that are visible to different people. The good… To start, though, a sort-of… Read more »Geoffrey Redmond, and what we can see
I’m really the wrong person to review this book: it’s a scholarly work, and I’m not remotely qualified to write a scholarly review. So here is a diviner’s take, instead. It comes as a sort of ‘whinge sandwich’: appreciation beginning and end, nitpicking in the middle. (Don’t take too much… Read more »Review: Stephen Field, The Duke of Zhou Changes
Here’s a new I Ching worth getting: Lars Bo Christensen’s Book of Changes, available (in the US and UK) for Kindle and now also on paper. His aim is to create a coherent, usable and authentic translation of the Zhouyi core text. That’s interesting in itself, as ‘usable’ and ‘authentic’ are usually separated.… Read more »Lars Bo Christensen, Book of Changes
Lars Bo Christensen has brought out a very interesting new translation of the Zhouyi: Book of Changes – the original core of the I Ching. I should post a full review one of these days (short version: yes, definitely buy it), but for now I just wanted to share something that’s… Read more »Rethinking the Well
