Email from John: “I was wondering why someone such as the host of ‘Useless Tree’ would ask such large questions as he does. Isn’t it better to ask such questions so as to influence events to promote the general benevolence?” It’s a reasonable question, and I’ll send Sam Crane a… Read more »Why ask political questions?
Donna kindly sent me a reminder of Frank Steiner’s I Ching Symphony. There are excerpts from all eight movements (one per trigram) online to listen to. Definitely ‘New Age music’ – one of the reviewers at Amazon recommends it for use at the dentist’s, or for putting children to sleep!… Read more »I Ching Symphony
I Ching – InterTao Ely Britto has created an English version of her I Ching website. It’s an excellent, very clear account of how to approach the I Ching through the traditional Chinese system of trigrams and line relationships.
A novel online reading – an I Ching clock that tells the Time. When I tried it, it gave me the hexagram I should be interpreting for a client right now. Good point.
GreenOwl wrote:
“Ideally you need to allow a good half hour to talk with (or rather listen to) your querent and arrive at the right question for them.â€
Any chance you could do a post (y’know, sometime) that walks through an example of that process? Or, if you’ve already written about it and I’m forgetting, just point in the right direction. Thanks!
That’s tricky, as I promise clients complete confidentiality – no discussion of their situation, question or answer, even anonymously. So I can’t go through a specific real-life example. But I can talk about general experiences that I’ve had with a few hundred customers – why not?
On the ‘abundance’ theme still – I promise to get back to Yi in the next post – The Architecture of All Abundance by Lenedra J Carroll £2.60 from Cygnus Books, who send me a beautiful free magazine every month. Hopefully I can send them some website visitors in return.… Read more »Abundance from Cygnus
The name of Hexagram 14 is Great Possession, and the character for ‘possessing’ also means ‘offering’ – suggesting that the two ideas are not so far apart as they might seem.
Interpreting this one, I’m often reminded of Molière’s play, The Miser. (Or was this in Plautus’s original, The Pot of Gold?) The miser has kept a pot of gold buried in his garden for years, sneaking off to gloat over it when no-one’s looking. Of course one day someone is looking, and the hoard is stolen, and he bewails his fate. Some witty character offers the consolation that he still has a dank hole in the ground to gaze down, so what has he really lost?
