I’m making some changes to my I Ching reading services, so here’s a quick update. Out with the old… I’m no longer offering short readings for £7. I found that I could either gallop through the reading (not good) or go way over the advertised time, and all told I… Read more »I Ching mentoring
Here’s a lovely article by Michelle Wood on Hexagram 24 and Winter Solstice – capturing the quality of the time.
Dan Stackhouse’s ‘Original I Ching’ is back! Here you can browse early forms of the hexagram names, learn to build an ‘I Ching mandala’, and read some very interesting characterisations of the trigrams – xun as ‘memory’, for instance. Dan’s comments on each hexagram are worth reading. They’re short, semi-poetic,… Read more »Original I Ching
About a month ago, I turned to Yi in complete frustration. I’d been listening to podcasts from Steve and Erin Pavlina, both talking about how enthusiastically they leapt out of bed in the early morning, eager to get to their work, because they knew their purpose in life. And I… Read more »Yi makes a difference
It’s amazing what a search or two can turn up. The ‘China Adoption Blog’ turns out to have an I Ching section, where Grant is working his way through steadily with commentary on each hexagram. He’s just reached Hexagram 22, but you can click through to the I Ching category… Read more »More I Ching commentary
Here’s a thought-provoking thread: How to read for other people? Do you start out with a plan in mind? What order do you present things in? How much do you explain the technical stuff? And other questions, and discussion of wuwei, and more.
Often, a weekly reading will give me a general idea of something to pay attention to, and then something will come up during the week that gives me a much clearer and more specific idea of what to do. And of course, that ‘something’ that comes up stands out as… Read more »Defending against distress
