ICC: Cradles
I Ching Community Discussion Forum: Cradles
Now at last I understand what Hexagram 19, Nearing, can have to do with mourning. This is from LiSe’s post to this thread:
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Two pieces of excellent news for ‘Yi people’:
Steve Marshall is updating his blog again at http://www.biroco.com/journal.htm. On April 2nd (scroll down!) he wrote about hexagram 25, line 2 – something I’ve been wondering and speculating on for years.
I’m (more or less) back
Hello – just to say I am back at work. Backlogged… dozier than usual… but doing readings and giving feedback on ecourse assignments in the usual way.
A novel view of hexagram 29, line 4
‘A cup, a drink, and a plate,
Using earthenware,
Letting them in on ropes from the window.
In the end, no mistake.’
Someone is confined in the Pit – someone reaches them in simple ways. I’ve seen this often enough as advice on how to keep a relationship alive through impossible times… the connection always felt like the one ray of light. But now I have a reading that makes me see an alternative perspective.
Translation or interpretation?
Nelson commented on the ‘Kinder I Ching’ page: “Aren’t you all confusing various ‘interpretations’ with a ‘translation’?”
Well – yes, we are. But then they are already inextricably confused.
ICC: Depends on the version that you use
I Ching Community Discussion Forum: Depends on the version that you use A superb thread, with wonderful insights on translations and versions in general, and what Yi might have to say about love or lust through these many voices.
Embodying the Sphere of Change
Embodying the Sphere of Change I don’t have the time now to take this in and write about it intelligently – packing calls 🙂 – but it does provide some intriguing new ways to think about the Yijing. Random excerpt: Each hexagram might be considered as resembling any of the… Read more »Embodying the Sphere of Change