There’s a very popular free online I Ching at Ewald Berkers’ ‘Eclectic Energies’ site. He’s just updated his site to replace the omnipresent Wilhelm/Baynes translation in this reading with his own work. He’s produced a clear translation and succinct commentary on the Zhouyi texts (the ‘Judgement’ and lines). The commentary… Read more »New I Ching translation at EclecticEnergies
Mick Frankel, a man of much I Ching wisdom and good sense, will be giving an introductory workshop on the I Ching at 8pm this Wednesday (7th March). He says: My workshop, “An Introduction to the I Ching” will be at 20:00 next Wednesday, 7th March at the Phoenix Rising… Read more »I Ching workshop on Wednesday
I’ve started re-reading Bede Griffiths, Return to the Centre, a wonderful book I first attempted to understand when I was 16. This time through, I have help. I think of hexagram 29, the Repeating Chasm, as a dark place of bottomless depths. Yi talks of ‘holding fast your heart’ here,… Read more »Bede Griffiths on the Abyss
Believe me – Harmen’s Dagboek A good, thought-provoking post from Harmen. Basically he’s pointing out that Yijing readings work within a framework of personal beliefs. This is true of what methods you know and find significant (nuclear hexagrams or not, for instance). I think it can also be true of… Read more »Believe Harmen
Nelson emailed me after the last newsletter to say he’d been getting a lot of readings around Hexagram 50. So here are some thoughts on what’s going on in the Vessel, which I hope might help with a variety of readings. The name of Hexagram 50 is ding: the sacred… Read more »Notes on Hexagram 50
Just another little personal reading story. Back on 2nd Feb, I ordered the latest Glyphius software from James Brausch. I wasn’t sure whether or not to go ahead and buy, but when I asked Yi about the effect of using it I received Hexagram 2, line 2. ‘Straight, square, great.… Read more »How not to make an ass of yourself (by Yi)
The more I look into the King Wen sequence, the more depths I discover. Take the two hexagrams that describe grand, historic events of legendary proportions: 49, Radical Change, and 55, Abundance. Hexagram 49 describes the time of revolution, when the Zhou people overthrew the Shang. And hexagram 55 has… Read more »Layers of story
