Here’s an interesting experiment you can play with: a reading without an oracle. That means setting out to receive guidance from the world without using anything intended for divination: no cards, runes, coins, stalks, charts or anything of the kind. Instead, you might listen to the first few words you… Read more »Reading without an oracle
I’m repeating myself here, but never mind – it bears repeating. The Yi is wonderfully made, with mind-boggling depth. One of the ways this manifests is in the relationships between changing lines and their zhi gua, the hexagram that follows from the change. For example, 49.3 changes to Hexagram 17,… Read more »Revolution without entanglement
In this episode, Raka shares two readings: ‘What if I go back to university for postgraduate studies?’ Yi answers with Hexagram 22, Beauty, changing at line 2 to 26, Great Taming: changing to and ‘What if I just leave this whole university thing?‘ …which gave her Hexagram 20, Seeing, changing… Read more »Podcast #18: dream and decision
A Change Circle member asked for examples and impressions of Hexagram 56, Travelling, as relating hexagram. After I’d trawled through my journal for examples for her, I thought I’d like to keep digging, so here’s the result… I’d expect the relating hexagram to describe subjective more than objective reality, and… Read more »Travelling as relating hexagram
In this episode, I share a couple of readings from my journal: ‘What about leaving this volunteering role?’ 32.3 to 40 ‘What do I do when I’m there?’ 61.4.6 to 58 And I talk about conversation with Yi, the interplay of text and structure, catching up with the reading years… Read more »From my readings journal
Hexagram 63, Ji ji, Already Crossing, is followed by Wei ji, Not Yet Crossing. Wei 未, ‘not yet’, is the opposite of ji 既, ‘already’. It occurs three times in the Yi in addition to its appearance in Hexagram 64: in the Oracle of Hexagram 48, and in 49.5 and… Read more »Not yet
It can be interesting to look at how the names of the hexagrams are used in the text of the Yijing – I mean, besides in the eponymous hexagram. This happens quite a bit, and while sometimes it’s obviously just normal usage of a common word (like you 有, ‘having’… Read more »Already
