Last weekend, I spent another few days clearing and sorting at Mum’s house, and once again found myself reminded of her huge productivity. I wrote about this once before: I’d asked Yi what Mum’s power was, and it answered with Hexagram 2, unchanging. So I thought about Mum, and since… Read more »The message keeps coming through
Misha Goussev is running a weekend workshop at the California Institute for Human Science next weekend (March 30th – April 1st). The title is ‘Wisdom and Intuition in Decision Making: navigating the modern business environment with the ancient Book of Change’, and the cost is $256 for members of the… Read more »I Ching business workshop in Encinitas
Unless you’ve lived under a rock for the past few months, you’ve probably heard of the Secret, and maybe gathered that it’s a creatively-marketed way of presenting the ‘Law of Attraction’. The basic idea is that whereas ‘common sense’ says that stuff happens to us, and that makes us feel… Read more »Yi on the Secret
Over the weekend, I found myself with a bit of a communication problem. The details aren’t important: I wanted to help and encourage someone to do something he was finding hard. I tried a few different approaches, succeeded only in being annoying, and finally asked Yi for advice on how… Read more »Open book
I just came across this poem by Gregory Luce, who’s seeing hexagram 3 in the clouds.
The Shuogua, ‘explanation of the gua’, is the Yijing’s 8th Wing. It’s in three parts: the first is an origin story of how the sages made the Yi from first principles; the remaining two describe the characteristics of the individual trigrams. You’ll occasionally find references to these characteristics in Wilhelm’s… Read more »Stephen Karcher: Shuogua
At http://www.hermetica.info, you’ll find a new edition of possibly the best Yijing resource on the web. Bradford Hatcher’s Book of Changes includes a ‘Matrix’ translation (a parallel text of Chinese and English), books on history and structure, and a complete translation with in-depth, thought-provoking commentary – and for some unfathomable… Read more »Hermetica I Ching: new edition
