Just a quick update about the members’ area. As you will know if you’ve joined as a Friend, you can already login and download: The Beginners’ I Ching Course as a single pdf to download ‘Seven ways to live a reading’ ‘Crossing the Great River’ – an excerpt from ‘Journey… Read more »Free I Ching things
The desire for connection comes in lots of disguises, and various more-or-less-useful sublimations, but I think a whole lot of us are looking for ways to feel connected – coherent – at one with our lives. We need the way we spend our days to connect with who we are.… Read more »Searching for connection
If you’re in the Missouri area, you may be able to catch a screening of Bob Dyer’s Oracle of the Turtle. It’s a short animated film based on his 64 I-Ching-inspired poems first published in 1978. If you see it – or know the poems – or know if the… Read more »Oracle of the Turtle
Just listen to this… “Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air, are heading home again. Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting – over and over announcing your place in… Read more »Wild Geese
‘The wild geese gradually advance to the high plateau. The husband marches out and does not return; The wife is pregnant, but does not nurture the child; Pitfall. Harvest in resisting outlaws.’ Some thoughts based on a single experience of this line. (In other words, not ‘What It Means’, but… Read more »Hexagram 53, line 3
Rosada at the I Ching Community casually dropped in a mention of this rendering of the Yi, which I’d never encountered before. It’s image-based and allusive, and for some reason has been made even more reduced and succinct than the original.
You never know where Yi may show up. Here’s an instructive tale from a Friday afternoon business meeting. I wonder what the reading was?
