I hope I win some kind of prize for provocative titles? Good… but there is a point to this. I always have my ears open to pick up insights and ideas from outside ‘Yijingland’ that will make for better Yijing divination. (I have something coming up called Into the Flow… Read more »Feel free to ignore anything the I Ching says
Wouldn’t it be nice if I broke my excruciatingly long silence here with something in-depth and profoundly meaningful? Well… too bad… On a car journey today, I noticed – Gen, the mountain, meaning a barrier, stilling, stopping. Kan, chasms and flowing water,… Read more »Traffic lights are trigrams
…at my expense, of course. Shenpen Chokyi has just launched her new site, about her upcoming Yijing book and cards. (At least, it will be upcoming if we let her know we’re interested!) So… I looked through her site, and let her know about a couple of errors I found.… Read more »Small cosmic joke
Here’s a post I should have made yesterday morning, when I cast my usual playing-in-the-sandbox readings for the Wimbledon finalists. Then I could have made a prediction and invited you to do the same, and… let’s face it, if I tried to cast readings with public predictions in mind, Yi… Read more »77
I recently had an email from ‘M’, who’s baffled by a recent reading. M’s particular question was a little unusual, asking what he himself is really looking for in a given situation, but the basic problem he’s having is familiar: “Essentially, I am confused as how to interpret the original… Read more »The old ‘resulting hexagram’ conundrum
(This post is about the basics. If you know them already, you can skip this and seek out something more sophisticated.) ‘How important are the changing lines?’ Someone emailed me to ask that: his ‘I Ching’ book had taught him to read one hexagram with one changing line for every… Read more »How important are the changing lines?
I like reading tarot blogs – there’s a whole supportive culture out there of readers, and the challenges they face are not so different from those encountered by Yi people. For instance, here’s Brigit writing warmly and with a good dose of common sense about dealing with difficult clients.… Read more »‘Not possible’ querents, impossible readings
