The salient – from Harmen
The salient – Harmen’s Dagboek More from Harmen! This time Hexagram 58 gets the treatment, line by line, and once again we’re invited to rethink what we thought we knew.
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What’s a webinar?
I just got an email asking this. Oops – very good question.
A webinar is like a seminar, but online – so participants can come from all over the globe. On the day, I will be sending out a link and global password to ticket-holders, and we will all log in to a glorified ‘chat room’. Unlike the ordinary kind, this has both text and voice chat, and I can also send out web pages for everyone to look at – which means I can display ‘slides’ of whatever we’re talking about. Also, if you come you can make your own recording of the complete event – voice, text and slides together – with a couple of mouse clicks.
Women in the I Ching webinar: tickets on sale
News! 😀 Tickets are on sale now for the webinar.
When: Saturday 25th June, 6pm UK time. (That’s mid-morning to early afternoon across the US.)
Who: Dr Margaret Pearson
What: Women in the I Ching
Where: at any internet-connected computer near you: Windows or Mac
How much: £5 (about $9 US, €7.50)
And maybe I should also mention how many: 28 seats were left when I last checked.
Getting started with the I Ching
I often get emails asking what the I Ching is and how to get started. And while there is enough to reflect on in the I Ching and its traditions to keep anyone engrossed for several lifetimes, getting started with it is absurdly simple.
More trigrams in the sequence (hexagrams 6, 7 and 8)
Last time I splashed out on books I bought not just the shiny new Ritsema/Sabbadini, but also Sarah Allan’s The Shape of the Turtle. And I am enjoying it no end. She writes about Shang myth, but there are many, many resonances in the Zhouyi. But finding one with the… Read more »More trigrams in the sequence (hexagrams 6, 7 and 8)
I Ching Community: What is a Universal Truth
JerryD thought to ask the I Ching, ‘What is a Universal Truth?’ (capital U, capital T) Yi answered with Hexagram 13, unchanging: People in Harmony. Well, different people have different takes on this, but it sounds to me as though Yi’s saying that a ‘Universal Truth’ is just whatever people… Read more »I Ching Community: What is a Universal Truth
Ritsema and Sabbadini: The Original I Ching Oracle
The Original I Ching Oracle is Ritsema’s revised version of the Eranos Yijing, first published in 1994 with Stephen Karcher, as ‘I Ching, the Classic Chinese Oracle of Change, the First Complete Translation with Concordance.’ I owe a huge amount to that book: it first gave me license to absorb the words, internalise a reading, without being told what it meant or what to do. Without that initial freedom, I doubt I would ever have been drawn to the Yi at all. So I really have Ritsema and Karcher to thank for this website and my work.