Yijing Dao – Ruling lines Steve Marshall has updated his ‘ruling lines’ page with many more examples than before. It’s worth taking the time really to look at them all. A question he doesn’t answer (Steve?) is what difference it makes when one of the changing lines you receive is… Read more »Yijing Dao – Ruling lines – updated
Some clarity from the Azande Not long ago, I read an excerpt from a 1937 study of the Azande people of sub-Saharan Africa and their use of divination. It explained that these people built substantial granaries of wood and clay, held safely clear of the ground by wooden supports. And… Read more »Divination and meaning
Pointing To The Moon: Let the Truth Inform Action Browsing to this page on one of the blogs I regularly visit, it just strikes me that – as well as being powerful advice – this reads as something of a commentary on hexagrams 55 to 56. The truth informing action… Read more »Let the Truth Inform Action – Hexagrams 55 and 56
As you can tell from the title of Freeman’s latest blog post – Chameleon Book Chronicles: A Truly Awful Book? – he’s feeling glum about low sales of his I Ching translation. Actually, we should all feel glum about low sales of his book, as it’s remarkably good one. I… Read more »Have you got the Chameleon Book?
If you’ve studied Stephen Karcher’s Total I Ching or listened to How to make Change a working part of your life, you’ll be familiar with the idea that the I Ching’s hexagrams come in Pairs, and that these Pairs are units of meaning in themselves. If you receive Hexagram 6,… Read more »Looking at hexagram pairs
I Ching Community Discussion Forum: High Carb Diet Explains Mystery of Zhouyi! Read and learn! (If you have the energy.)
Tim Boucher’s ‘Pop Occulture’ blog is a real find. Here – Pop Occulture » Chaotic Patterns in Divination – he writes about the workings of divination. The gist is that divination works through exposing us to chaotic patterns – like staring into the fire does. These sideline our conscious minds,… Read more »Chaotic Patterns in Divination
